April 29, 2026

NCPH 2027 Optional Topic Proposal Deadline

We acknowledge that it’s strange to be in the midst of two conference cycles at once, but time marches on! Topic proposals for our St. Louis 2027 conference, “Holding the Line,” are due on Sunday, May 10 by 11:59 pm your local time. Topic proposals are optional preliminary proposals you submit to get feedback from the NCPH community and Program Committee and to connect with co-presenters. We’ll put them on our website and invite the NCPH community to comment so you can refine your topic for the final proposal deadline of June 15.

Possible presentation formats include:

  • ROUNDTABLE (90 mins): Roundtables are typically about half presentation and half discussion among presenters and the audience. Presenters should bring targeted questions to pose to others at the table in order to learn from and with each other.
  • STRUCTURED CONVERSATION (90 mins): These facilitated, participant-driven discussions are designed to prioritize audience dialogue and may contain little or no formal presentation component.
  • COMMUNITY VIEWPOINTS (90 mins): A session that features a variety of stakeholder and collaborator perspectives across stages of the project’s development, with a particular focus on community participants and grassroots collaborators.
  • WORKING GROUP (2 hrs): Facilitators and up to 12 discussants grapple with a shared concern. Before and during the meeting, working groups articulate a purpose they are working toward or a problem they are actively trying to solve and aim to create an end product. Proposals are submitted by facilitators, who will seek discussants after acceptance.
  • WORKSHOP (4 or 8 hrs): A half- or full-day workshop is a more intensive and skills-based deep-dive into a topic that includes concrete practical tools and lessons for a smaller group of attendees (recommended 15-30 people).

Submit at https://ncph.org/conference/ncph-2027/call-for-proposals/topic-proposal-submission-form/.

Take a closer look at the full CFP here: https://ncph.org/conference/ncph-2027/call-for-proposals/.