WELCOME FROM THE INEBRIA 2025 LOCAL ORGANISERS
We are thrilled to welcome you to the INEBRIA 2025 San Francisco Conference, the 21st annual INEBRIA conference. The theme of this year’s conference is “Screening and brief intervention: Expanding the evidence base on innovative approaches, clinical outcomes, implementation and sustainment.”
The 2025 theme highlights the unique focus of this conference on practice-based research that informs policy and has the potential to impact not only alcohol and other drug use, and other risk behaviors, but overall health and wellbeing at the population level.
Our 2025 program will reflect the following innovative areas of screening and brief intervention (SBI) research:
- The full scope of SBI research. INEBRIA is the only organization in the world whose specific focus is SBI. The 2025 conference will include the breadth and depth of SBI research, extending the traditional model to incorporate innovative approaches to outreach and delivery of interventions outside of health care settings to reach new populations. It will include a strong focus on SBI research and implementation in low- and middle-income countries as well as low-resource settings in high-income countries.
- Implementation science. Implementation science principles can illuminate why some SBI initiatives have not achieved their goals and can guide future interventions toward feasible and sustainable approaches.
- SBI in the context of medical and psychiatric comorbidities. Interventions for substance use need to be a part of broader behavioral programs to support their implementation and meet the needs of patients. Researchers can benefit from learning about addressing the complexity of behavioral health problems, including comorbid mental health and substance use conditions and concurrent use of drugs and alcohol.
- Electronic SBI, beyond internet interventions. New applications of technology have the potential to radically transform both the content and the reach of SBI. The meeting will highlight these innovative approaches.
- Adolescent SBI. The conference will provide an opportunity to summarize this fast-moving area of research, to evaluate and discuss what works, to identify gaps in the evidence base, and to chart the next phase of research.
- Effect Heterogeneity. Studies focusing on the efficacy and effectiveness of SBI across population groups: how they work and for whom.
The meeting will be co-hosted by the Center for Addiction and Mental Health Research (CAMHR) at the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
The Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, founded in 1961, and with over 100 faculty and over 600 current studies, conducts, publishes, and disseminates epidemiological and health services research to improve the health and medical care of Kaiser Permanente members and society at large. It seeks to understand the determinants of illness and well-being, and to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care.
The Center for Addiction and Mental Health Research conducts high-impact research at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, a not-for-profit learning health care delivery system. For over 20 years, CAMHR scientists have advanced the fields of addiction and mental health research and improved care for patients with these chronic conditions. With an emphasis on research conducted in medical settings, CAMHR contributes to building the evidence base at the intersection of implementation science, health services research, cost-effectiveness, prevention, and clinical outcomes.
UCSF is a top-ranked health science university with a history of supporting research in alcohol and other substance use screening and treatment. Substance use research is integrated across the campus, especially in the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy. Within the School of Medicine, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health (DPBS) has a mission focused on research, teaching, patient care and public service. DPBS conducts clinical, educational and research at a variety of locations including the Pritzker Psychiatry Building, UCSF Mission Bay, UCSF Medical Center, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, the San Francisco VA Health Care System.
We are especially delighted to welcome you to the state-of-the-art, UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building. Opened in 2022, the Pritzker Building is a one-of-a-kind treatment, research and educational center that aims to redefine mental health services and make a bold statement against stigma. Situated adjacent to UCSF’s Mission Bay campus in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, the Pritzker Building is one of the few in the nation that combines outpatient mental health care for people of all ages with top-ranking programs in psychiatry and psychology training. It includes a center for pediatric, adolescent, and family health care, and promotes collaborative research across psychiatry, psychology, neurology, neurosurgery, radiology, pediatrics, anesthesiology, obstetrics/gynecology, and state-of-the-art meeting facilities – all under one roof.
A special thanks is extended to our sponsors of the INEBRIA 2025 Conference – the Scientific Committee and INEBRIA Coordinating Committee – for each of their contributions in helping to arrange this conference. We look forward to having the opportunity to meet with you all, network and unite in our experiences from around the globe.
We are looking forward to hosting the next INEBRIA Annual Meeting in beautiful San Francisco, California, on September 24-26, 2025. We would love to have you join us.
ABSTRACTS. An official call for abstracts will be coming shortly, but we encourage you to start considering abstract topics for submission, including symposia and individual presentations and posters.
ACCOMODATION PLANNING. The conference will take place in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, which is centrally located and near many hotels and restaurants. Details regarding the conference venue and a list of suggested hotels will be provided soon.
VISAS. It is important to begin the visa process early; Please check out U.S. Visa Information here
A foreigner traveling to the United States to conduct temporary business must have a visitor visa (B) unless qualifying for entry under the Visa Waiver Program.
There are several steps to apply for a visa. The order of these steps and how you complete them may vary by U.S. Embassy or Consulate. Please consult the instructions on the U.S. Embassy or Consulate website.
Please apply for a visa well in advance, as there are long waiting periods for visa appointments in many countries.
Organizers: Stacy Sterling and Derek Satre, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California and University of California, San Francisco, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
