2006 IH Section Call for Abstracts
Please note that the abstract submission deadline has been extended from February 17, to Friday February 24, 2006 at midnight Eastern Standard Time.
The International Health Section welcomes abstracts related to the overall meeting theme of "Human Rights and Public Health".
General Instructions
Abstracts must:
1) State the purpose of the work to be presented
2) Explain the data or information used
3) Describe the methods used
4) Present major results
5) State recommendations or policy implications
Abstracts will only be accepted within the topic areas listed with this call for Abstracts. Note that all submissions should relate to: (1) health problems and issues of countries outside the United States or (2) how health problems and issues outside the United States affect the US (including lessons for the US from outside and the problems faced by immigrant populations).
APHA is a premier forum for scientific presentation and discussion, and the International Health Section maintains very high standards for quality and content. Writers are strongly encouraged to read the specific instructions for submission on the APHA site and to follow the format and process carefully. Abstracts that do not follow the exact format of the submission process will not be rejected, but will be marked down.
All abstracts should relate to the conference theme of “Human Rights and Public Health”. Submissions that do not relate to this topic will receive lower marks in the assessment process.
If accepted for presentation, the author (or designate) will be expected to register and attend the conference in Boston, Massachusetts in November, 2006. There is no financial aid or assistance available for this. Individuals who may have difficulty attending the APHA annual meeting should identify a co-author that will be able to attend and participate in the program.
Process for review
Individual Presentations
All submitted abstracts will be peer reviewed for consideration of inclusion in the program. Indicate your preferences for presentation format on your abstract form. You may submit your abstract with the designation “oral only”, “poster only”, or “no preference”.
Special panels
Those interested in organizing four-speaker panels around a specific topic must submit an abstract and the author identification form that accompanies it for each presentation and note the number assigned to the abstracts. Then an e-mail should be sent to the IH Section Planner (mbryant@msh.org). The organizer may choose to structure the session as a set of individual presentations or as a panel discussion. The session organizer is responsible for communications with all members in the proposed panel and, once notified that the panel is accepted, choosing a moderator for the panel.
Film Festival
Once again, the International Health section is pleased to feature a Film Festival as part of the program. The Film Festival provides a venue for film makers to showcase their work to health professionals and to highlight health issues in developing countries. If you are interested in submitting a film for consideration, please contact mbryant@msh.org for further details.
Special Groups
Special attention will be given to abstracts submitted by developing country nationals and students, therefore, these individuals should note their status on the abstract form. Two of the section's eight poster sessions (10 posters per session) are designated for developing country national presenters and student presenters.
Student Presenters
One of the section's oral panels is designated for four presentations by students (topic: Student Panel). Please submit your abstract under these topics if you wish to compete in the peer-review process for these openings. Should there be more abstracts that qualify for acceptance than space available, those abstracts will be considered for placement elsewhere in the peer-reviewed program.
• To submit as a student, one should be enrolled in a full-time degree program.
• To submit as a developing country national, one should hold a passport of a non-OECD country and not be a permanent resident of the United States or other OECD country.
Non-electronic submissions
If you know of someone who would like to submit an abstract who does not have access to the web, please help them to make the submission. As a last resort, the abstract and required author identification information may be mailed or faxed to the Malcolm Bryant, 784 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. Fax +1-617-250-9090
- A Decade of Health Sector Reform: The Legacy of Neoliberalism
- AIDS Evaluation in Africa: What Have We Learned?
- APHA Film Festival: IH # 2 - Women’s Health Issues: Rape, Abortion, and Obstetric Fistula
- APHA Film Festival: IH #1 - HIV/AIDS: From Africa to the Ukraine
- APHA Film Festival: IH #3 - Public Health, Conflict and War: Rwanda and Uganda
- APHA Film Festival: IH #4 - In the First Person: Media Makers Explore Illness and Violence
- APHA Film Festival: International Health Session 5 - From Cuba to Africa: Creating Workable Health Systems in the Global South
- Access to Testing and Treatment for HIV-Positive Mothers in South Africa: Health and Human Rights
- Accident and Injury-Related Morbidity and Mortality
- Addressing STIs and HIV Around the World
- Avian Influenza: Lessons Learned During a Year of Global Concern
- Beyond the Culture Wars: From Condoms to Abstinence
- Black South African Women Living With HIV: The Roles of Trauma, Power, And Disclosure In Their Lives
- Building Human Capacity in Resource Poor Settings
- Child Health Issues and Innovations
- Child Survival/Child Health
- Chronic Disease and Aging
- Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance
- Communications Approaches to Achieve Healthy Lifestyles
- Community Based Primary Health Care
- Community Health Insurance and Health Care Financing in Decentralized Health Systems
- Contemporary Issues in Health Care Reform
- Displaced Populations (e.g. immigrants, refugees)
- Displaced Populations: Differing Causes, Common Needs
- Donor Trends
- Emerging Infectious Diseases (e.g. Avian Influenza)
- Environmental Health
- Evaluating the Impact of Our Work: From the Global Fund to Patient Interactions
- Financing and Pharmaceuticals: How Do We Make Cost-Effective Choices?
- Foreign Aid Reform: Impact on Health Funding
- Global Health Careers: Opportunities and Employers' Perspectives
- Global Issues in HIV/AIDS
- Global Perspectives On Access To AIDS Treatment: The Role Of Trade Agreements And The World Health Organization
- Global Perspectives in Occupational Health and Safety
- Globalization and Health
- HIV/AIDS
- HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean
- HIV/AIDS: A Focus On Africa
- Health Care Worker Migration from Developing Countries: What is Happening and Why it Matters
- Health Communication and Education
- Health Sector Reform (e.g. Financing, Decentralization, PPP, Civil Society, Policy)
- Health Systems Management (e.g. Pharmaceuticals, Information, Human Resources, Planning, Financing)
- Health Systems Management: Evidence, Information, and Human Resources
- How Does National Instability Affect Health Systems?: A Growing Challenge in Global Health
- Human Capacity Development
- Human Rights Issues in Response to Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
- Human Rights through Global Lens: Challenges and Opportunities
- Improving Access to Essential Drugs
- Improving Quality! Practical Models that Work
- International Business Meeting
- International Health Business Meeting
- International Health Business Meeting
- International Health Business Meeting
- International Health Luncheon with Keynote Address by Dr. Amartya Sen
- International Health-MCH
- International Public Health Education
- International Women's Health Issues
- Is it a Human Right for Health Workers to Migrate from Poor Countries?
- Making Healthy Choices for Reproductive Health
- Malaria
- Malaria: History, Equity, and Prevention
- Maternal Health
- Maternal Mortality: Do Women have the Right to Safe Childbirth?
- Measuring Health Systems Performance
- Meeting the Pharmaceuticals Access Scale-up Challenge
- Mental Health, Women's Rights, and Overlooked Populations
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Outcomes
- NGO Community Empowerment Approaches to Improve Child Health: Overview and Three Case Studies
- Nutrition
- Nutritional Status: The Influence of Poverty, Equity, and Autonomy
- Perspectives on Child and Newborn Health
- Perspectives on Chronic Disease and Aging
- Policy Perspectives on Human Rights and Attention to HIV/AIDS Issues
- Policy and Advocacy Best Practices
- Promoting Global Evidence Based Practice through Research: Eliminating Gaps in Funding & Publishing
- Promoting and Protecting the Rights of the Child
- Public Health Nursing and Global Health
- Quality Improvement/Quality Assurance
- Quality as a Rights Issue
- Rationing, Human Rights, Money and Antiretrovirals: Observations from Lesotho, South Africa & Russia
- Reproductive Health including Family Planning
- Reproductive Health: Innovations, Policy, and Access
- Safe Motherhood
- Sociocultural Dimensions of HIV Prevention and Care
- Student Perspectives on Public Health
- Supply and Demand: Contraceptive Procurement and Social Marketing
- Taking Care of Mothers
- The Circumstances of Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- The Commercial Sector and Reproductive Health
- The Impact of Conflict on Health Systems
- The Role and Contribution of the Private Sector in Realizing Health Sector Reform
- The Role of Private Provider Networks in Expanding Access to Reproductive Health/Family Planning Services
- Thirty-Five Years of Community-Based Primary Health Care - The Jamkhed Experience
- Topics in HIV/AIDS I
- Topics in HIV/AIDS II
- Trade Agreements and Trade Issues Affecting Health in Developing Countries
- Traditional Medicine
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis: Implementing Simple Approaches in High Burden Populations
- Waitlisted Papers
- Water and the Environment: Affecting Health Across Borders
- What’s So Right about Rights? Foundations of Health and Human Rights
- Women's Health: Gender Imbalance and its Impact
Reminder - All presenters must pay their own travel, lodging, APHA membership fee, and meeting registration fee.
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