CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — 139th APHA Annual Meeting (October 29 - November 2, 2011)
Theme: Healthy Communities Promote Healthy Minds & Bodies
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
Submission Deadline: Friday, February 11, 2011
Call for Abstracts for the 2011 Annual Meeting (Deadline February 11, 2011)
Each year, members of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (ATOD) Section have the opportunity to present papers and research results during the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. Preparations are being made now for the 2011 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
Abstracts are encouraged that present new research and cutting edge issues in substance abuse that are of interest to our membership. Abstracts may focus within the individual topic areas of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs; however, topics that are relevant across multiple substances of use/abuse are also encouraged. The Section encourages members interested in health services research, media, advocacy, public policy, prevention, and treatment practice to submit abstracts for 2011. Our objective is 1,000 abstract submissions.
Fourth Annual Student Poster Showcase and Award:
The ATOD Section also invites abstract submissions from students for the Fourth Annual Student Poster Award. Students who submit abstracts to the Student Poster Showcase session will be considered for inclusion in a special poster session presenting selected posters, with monetary awards being given to top finalists. (Abstracts not selected for the Student Poster Showcase will be considered for other sessions as appropriate.) For information see http://www.apha.org/membergroups/sections/aphasections/atod/.
Topics of particular interest include:
- ATOD-Co-morbidities, Integration of Services
- ATOD-Health Care Reform, Access, and Parity
- ATOD-Issues Related to Evaluation Methodology and Approaches
- AWARD: Student Poster Showcase #1
- Alcohol-Environmental Approaches
- Alcohol-Other
- Alcohol-Policy and Advocacy
- Alcohol-Prevention
- Alcohol-Treatment
- Community Based Approaches to ATOD Problems
- Conference Theme: Healthy Communities Promote Healthy Minds and Bodies
- SBIRT/Screening & Referral in applied settings
- Science to Service/Research to Practice-Research in Applied Settings
- Tobacco-Cessation- Individual
- Tobacco-Cessation-Systems Change
- Tobacco-Other
- Tobacco-Policy and Advocacy
- Tobacco-Prevention
- Tobacco-Second Hand Smoke
- Tobacco-Youth
- Other Drugs-General
- Other Drugs-Marijuana
- Other Drugs-Policy and Advocacy
- Other Drugs-Prescription Drug Use and Abuse
- Other Drugs-Prevention
- Other Drugs-Treatment
Please follow submission guidelines carefully. Incomplete submissions may be rejected due to insufficient information to judge their merit.
Abstracts may be designated “Oral Only”, “Poster Only” or “No Preference”. Oral sessions are limited and very competitive, so you are encouraged to consider selecting “No Preference”—each year we must turn down abstracts of merit because we do not have space and authors selected “Oral Only”. Please give the Program Committee as many options as possible to accept your presentation.
The ATOD Section ranks abstracts through a multi-tiered peer review process. Abstracts are evaluated on:
1) Importance: Does the presentation provide new findings and/or innovative ideas with significant impact on policy, practice or advocacy in the ATOD field?
2) Methodological/project soundness: Is the methodology sound, clearly stated, and appropriate to the topic or project? Are the sample and data and/or the population and community information recent, representative, unbiased and of adequate size?
3) Clarity: Is the content communicated in a clear, logical and understandable way?
4) Relation to overall Section priorities.
Abstracts that do not make this clear are usually ranked lower by reviewers due to incomplete information.
Topical sessions are then assembled from high-ranked abstracts. Please note that APHA suggests the program include only one presentation by any individual, and the ATOD Section endeavors to abide by this guideline.
Session Proposals. Session proposals are generally not encouraged due to limited space and are rarely approved as submitted. If you desire to submit a session proposal, contact the Program Chair, Lawrence S. Brown, at LBrown@artcny.org to ask for a session designation. Please allow at least two weeks for a response to such requests. They will be ranked in competition with separately submitted abstracts, and the session topic will be weighed against the topics of interest for the Annual Meeting as well as the topics addressed in separately submitted abstracts. The Program Committee reserves the right to break session proposals apart and consider the individual abstracts separately without prior notification to the session organizer.
Only session proposals that include abstracts for each presentation, an overall session abstract, and have the Confex-assigned ID numbers for abstracts in the session inserted into every abstract, will be considered. The session abstract must include the rationale, moderator, presentation titles, order and length of time for each presentation, and be clearly labeled SESSION ABSTRACT - “your proposed title” on the electronic submission. Each individual abstract should also include the session title and contact information (phone and e-mail) for the person in charge of sessions so we can contact you easily.
Notification of acceptance or rejection for all abstracts submitted is sent in May or June by e-mail to the contact person designated in the abstract submission. Presenters are notified of date, time and location of their sessions during the summer. Should you withdraw an accepted abstract, the Program Chair will select a replacement; please do not provide a substitute. Information detailing the ATOD Section’s Preliminary Program and Final Program will be available on the ATOD Section Web site and copies of the Final ATOD Section Program including locations and last-minute changes will be available at the ATOD Section Booth.
Should your abstract be chosen you will be expected to complete the learning objectives and conflict of interest statements, as directed in the future and in a timely fashion so that the ATOD section receives continuing education approval for all of its oral sessions.
Program Planner Contact Information:
Lawrence S. Brown, MD, MPH, FASAM
Division of Medical Services, Research and Information Technology
Addiction Research and Treatment Corporation
22 Chapel Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: 718 260-2917
Fax: 718 522-3186
lbrown@artcny.org