Call for Abstracts
ARRCH is pleased to invite community health professionals, partners, innovators, and people with lived experience to submit abstracts for the ARRCH 2026 – Future Ready Conference, March 12–13 in Ballarat. This year, we explore how collaboration, technology, community voice, cultural safety, and shared leadership are shaping the future of care.
The ARRCH Conference Committee is seeking conference presentations that showcase the intrinsic value that community health and other services and programs bring to the communities we serve. We welcome presentation abstracts that reflect one of our 6 concurrent themes:
Concurrent Session Themes
- Integrated & Partnered Practice – Partnering power, cross-sector collaboration and coordinated models of care.
- Technology, AI & Virtual Care – Digital tools, data equity and innovations that advance accessible, equitable community health.
- Voices That Shape Care – Lived experience, co-design, and community-led insights.
- Safety, Healing & Cultural Responsiveness – Trauma-informed, culturally grounded, and equity-driven approaches.
- Leadership – Shared stewardship, strengthening leadership capacity and collective responsibility for healthier communities.
- Meeting Diverse Health Needs in Rural & Regional Victoria – Exploring the social and structural determinants that shape health and wellbeing.
Submission Details
- Abstract length: 250–300 words
- Submission should include: title, primary theme, authors, and affiliations
- Eligible submissions: research, programs, quality improvement, innovation, and lived-experience perspectives
- Successful abstracts will be allocated a 15 minute timeslot for presentation with 5 minutes for facilitated questions
- Abstracts that are unsuccessful in being allocated a presentation will be eligible for a poster presentation
Help shape a future-ready community health system.
Thank you to everyone who submitted an abstract.