Minnesota Partners in Public Health Conference
Breakout Session Request for Proposals is now open!

Generally, we are looking for sessions that:

• Last either 60 or 75 minutes.
• Fit with the conference theme and address a public health hot topic (we encourage applications from different areas of public health work).
• Make significant contributions to professional development for state, Tribal and local public health leaders.
• Include a participatory element during the breakout and apply to a mix of learning styles.
• Share promising strategies and best practices.  
• Provide practical skills and tools for participants.
• Depict creative programs and services.
• Demonstrate innovative ideas and solutions.
• Impart new information.
• Highlight success – recognizing innovation and celebrating practices that are working.
• Center voices of community partners, Tribal partners, and those with lived experience.
• Speak to at least one of our public health foundational responsibilities. 

The breakout sessions will be categorized into the conference’s five tracks - more information about each track is included below.

1. Workforce issues and leadership development
2. Communications, data, and evaluation
3. Partnership and collaboration
4. Health Equity
5. Policy, systems, and environmental change 

Workforce Issues and Leadership Development, such as:  

• Communicating effectively as a leader  
• Staffing: Employee engagement, development, satisfaction, and retention  
• Conflict management and boundary setting  
• Leadership styles and strategies in uncertain times
• Promoting well-being and supporting mental health in the public health workforce

Communications, data and evaluation, such as:  

• Effective messaging - both internally within organizations and externally to the public  
• Communication strategies, campaigns, and best practices
• Communications designed to show impact and/or drive change  
• Communicating with diverse audiences  
• Translating data into messages and practices
• Program and policy evaluation
• Accessibility

Partnership and collaboration, such as:  

• Highlighting innovative or nontraditional public health partnerships  
• Building relationships with disadvantaged populations  
• Working with community partners  
• Developing and maintaining coalitions
• Building for the long-term and fostering resiliency
• Conflict management and boundary setting  

Health equity, such as:  

• Ways to incorporate health equity into your current program area
• Overview of a program or project that successfully connects communities experiencing health inequities to public health
• Strategies to identify health equity gaps in communities  
• How to evaluate a program’s effectiveness in reaching underserved people or communities experiencing health inequities

Policy, systems, and environmental change, such as:

• Developing, enacting, promoting, enforcing and evaluating local, Tribal or state policies  
• Policy, legal and regulatory research and evaluation
• Engaging diverse partners in policy and systems change
• Planning and implementing systems change at the individual, interpersonal, team, organization, and community levels 

To help you prepare your proposal, these are the questions you will be asked on the proposal form:

Minnesota Partners in Public Health Breakout Session Proposal form questions

Title of presentation:  

Contact name:  

Title or position:  

Contact email address:  

Organization:  

Website:  

Names, Titles and organizations for everyone presenting (can be changed later):  

Which track or tracks would this presentation best fit:  

• Workforce Issues and Leadership Development  
• Communications, data and evaluation
• Partnership and Collaboration
• Health Equity
• Policy, systems, and environmental change

Please indicate what your presentation will most likely highlight (select all that apply)

• Share promising strategies and best practices.  
• Provide practical skills and tools for participants.
• Depict creative programs and services.
• Demonstrate innovative ideas and solutions.
• Impart new information.
• Highlight success – recognizing innovation and celebrating practices that are working.
• Center voices of community partners, Tribal partners, and those with lived experience.

Which of the Foundational Public Health Responsibilities will your presentation speak to? (Select all that apply)

• Communicable Disease Control
• Chronic Disease & Injury Prevention
• Environmental Public Health
• Maternal, Child & Family Health
• Access to & Linkage with Clinical Care
• Assessment & Surveillance
• Community Partnership Development
• Equity
• Organizational Competencies
• Policy Development & Support
• Accountability & Performance Management
• Emergency Preparedness & Response
• Communications
• I am not sure 

Description of presentation: Please limit to 125 words or less.  

Please describe any participatory elements of your presentation or practical/implementable tools that you would be providing to participants: please limit to 100 words or less.

What length of session would you prefer?  

• 60 minutes  
• 75 minutes  
• I am fine with either option

We have breakout sessions on both November 18th and 19th, are there any days or times you are unavailable?  

Please specify any special technology, equipment, or room setup you would require.  

Would you be providing any handouts or materials? If so, please describe.