Conference Tracks

The National Healthcare Coalition Preparedness Conference 2026 will feature four primary tracks supporting this year’s theme:

Harboring Strength: Uniting Coalitions for a Safer Tomorrow

Track 1: Executive Coalition Leadership   

The success of every coalition hinges on visionary leadership. This track focuses on anecdotal learnings from experienced coalition leaders. The shared expertise will help developing coalitions learn best practices, sustainability tactics and how to implement strategies for capacity building and growth.

Track 2: Sustaining and Expanding Coalitions

Coalitions are faced with ongoing challenges - shrinking budgets and resources, staff reductions, increasing workloads and continuously changing public health threats. This track will explore how coalitions are working to combat these challenges through specific case studies and key learnings.

Track 3: Emerging Threats   

The nature of threats to our national health security continues to change. Threats will continually evolve, and to protect our communities, coalitions are tasked with developing new and inspired solutions to address events like pandemic diseases, the opioid crisis, active shooter emergencies and cybersecurity threats.

Track 4: Pediatrics   

Children account for 25% of the population and are one of the country’s greatest resources, as they are the future. Being that the needs of children vary drastically from that of adults during a crisis, it is important to ensure that they are accounted for to truly address the total population. This track will focus on a variety of coalition partners. Along with targeted coalition pediatric planning, it will also include how pediatric priorities are integrated into current grants, projects and plans.