2nd IMPACT Conference «Moving towards Impact – Implementation Science in Switzerland»

Due to the pandemic the 2nd IMPACT Conference was held as a virtual event.

On February 9, 2022 from 13.00 to 15.40 CET, a pre-conference workshop was offered with the aim to provide training for novice implementation scientists. Four keynote speakers, Dr. Rahel Naef and Dr. Lauren Clack (Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich & Center of Clinical Nursing Science), PD Dr. Franziska Zúñiga (Nursing Science, University of Basel) and Dr. Thekla Brunkert (Nursing Science, University of Basel, University Department of Geriatric Medicine FELIX PLATTER, Basel) presented various implementation science topics targeted to novice implementation scientists and practitioners.

During the two conference days on February 10 and 11, 2022 from 15.00 to 18.00 CET, four international keynote lectures covered implementation science topics ranging from Environmental Public Health to Systems Science. On the first conference day, Dr. Douglas Luke (Brown School, Washington University, St. Louis, USA), Reto Auer (Institute of Primary Health Care, University of Bern & Center for Primary Care and Public Health, Lausanne), and Lauren Clack (Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich & Center of Clinical Nursing Science) were invited as keynote speakers to share a wide range of expertise in various fields of implementation science. Afterwards, a roundtable discussion with international and national experts was moderated by Dr. Kate Molesworth (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute). Experiences of experts, enabling factors and challenges encountered to begin implementation science research were discussed. On the second conference day, Dr. Lindsey Martin (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Population Health Science Branch, Durham, North Carolina, USA) was invited as a keynote speaker to share her perspective on implementation science in the field of environmental health. Afterwards, two “Meet the Expert” sessions were the landmark of the day. In both sessions, four break-out rooms were organized and the audience had the possibility to join a topic of interest. In Part 1, four different projects in implementation science, about which abstracts submitted a priori by participants, were discussed in length and participants received methodological advice by our experts. In Part 2, four implementation themes were discussed by experts and participants: contextual analysis,  stakeholder involvement,  implementation outcomes and implementation strategies. In total, 133 and 115 participants from five continents attended the pre-conference workshop and the two-day conference, respectively.

The 2nd IMPACT Conference was funded by