Tunis 2026: 8 reasons to submit an abstract before 22 February!

1. Reach a unique audience including leading respiratory primary care experts: IPCRG conferences have a unique audience of respiratory-focused, respected primary and community care academics and teachers, paediatricians, primary respiratory care opinion leaders, and front-line practitioners from low, middle and high income countries from all five continents. 
2. Attend our Conversation Cafés and receive robust advice from peers in respiratory primary care: IPCRG will select some authors to present their work at Conversation Cafés to enable discussion of their abstracts with fellow researchers in respiratory health. Peer review is an important part of any research project. If you are selected for this, you will have dedicated time to present your findings and receive feedback from your peers in an intellectually challenging but welcoming atmosphere. 
3. Inclusive scope and range of topics for submission: As a primary care conference with a focus on respiratory care, we welcome submissions on respiratory symptoms e.g. breathlessness, wheeze and cough, whatever their causes; tobacco dependence and its impacts, air pollution and its impacts and also the relationship with mental health. We also encourage abstracts that address issues of local importance such as respiratory health and dust, and issues that align with IPCRG's partnership in the FRESHAIR4Life project funded by Horizon Europe and UKRI including planetary health, health equity, adolescent health and the use of social media and AI for health information.
4. Multi-professional opportunities: All members of the multi-professional team, including patients and patient representatives, can submit. 
5. We are not just looking for clinical research findings, but for research ideas and implementation studies too: We accept three categories of submission - Clinical Research Results (that must include a hypothesis, method and data and be relevant to our conference audience of predominantly primary care practitioners, Research Ideas (that have a title and proposed method, but the author may want feedback on the design) and Service Development & Evaluation. We encourage abstracts which include real world evidence and good practice examples, and those addressing our conference theme of listening deeply. Following a very successful first session at our 8th Scientific Meeting in Brașov, Romania, we are also accepting abstracts for Creative Enquiry Presentations.
6. You can submit previously presented relevant research (encores): Previously presented research at a non-IPCRG conference is acceptable for submission because our audience is different from other respiratory or primary care conferences and so this is a chance to achieve our mission of getting research findings into the public domain. Please disclose that it has been previously presented. 
7. We offer an inclusive approach: Our mission is to build primary care research capability, which is still an under-developed field. Therefore we aim to provide opportunities for new and inexperienced researchers to reach a wider audience and receive peer review that may be difficult in their own country. We are again pleased to offer support to make our conference as inclusive as possible. We can support you, for example, by connecting to peer support within your country/language, reviewing the readability and sense of the English, using our multidisciplinary network to connect you to a specialist mentor, and/or enabling practice runs of your presentation at the conference venue or online.
8. Feedback and support offered for selected abstracts that are relevant but need improvement: the Abstracts committee has offered to help authors whose abstracts are relevant but need improvement before they can be accepted.  This is particularly aimed at new researchers. 

Visit our conference website www.ipcrg2026.org to find out more about our World Conference, and submit your abstract here by the end of Sunday 22 February.