CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — 140th APHA Annual Meeting

Theme: Prevention and Wellness Across the Lifespan

Community-Based Public Health Caucus

Submission Deadline: Monday, February 6, 2012

• Academic-community partnerships: the good, the bad, and the ugly
• Benefits & power of partnerships
• Community Voices: community member perspectives on community-academic partnerships and CBPR (presenting author must be a community member)
• Developing community faculty and community partners
• Developing gold standards for CBPR
• Healthy community promote healthy minds & bodies
• Healthy virtual/Internet communities
• Lessons learned from community-based participatory research projects
• Measures, methods, and evaluation in CBPR
• Student/youth presentations (presenting author must be a student/youth)
• The scholarship of CBPR (presenting author must be a current or former Kellogg Health Scholar) If you would like your abstract considered for this session, indicate so when you submit your abstract to the CBPH Caucus.
• The importance of community involvement in research
• The role of community partners in community based public health

• Academic-community partnerships: the good, the bad, and the ugly
  
• Benefits & power of partnerships
  
• Community Voices: community member perspectives on community-academic partnerships and CBPR (presenting author must be a community member)
  
• Developing community faculty and community partners
  
• Developing gold standards for CBP
  
• Healthy community promote healthy minds & bodies
  
• Healthy virtual/Internet communities
  
• Lessons learned from community-based participatory research projects
  
• Measures, methods, and evaluation in CBPR
  
• Student/youth presentations (presenting author must be a student/youth)
  
• The importance of community involvement in research
  
• The role of community partners in community based public health
  
• The scholarship of CBPR (presenting author must be a Kellogg Health Scholar)
  

Please note that each individual abstract to be included in a full session must be submitted through the APHA electronic abstract submission process. Each abstract will be reviewed independently, and be subject to the same blind peer-review process as other abstracts. Due to limited number of sessions available for oral presentations, in order for a full session proposal to be considered, each individual abstract from the proposed full session must be accepted on its own merit. If all abstracts are not accepted, the full session will not be considered. However, the individually accepted abstracts will be considered for presentation together within another topic area session. In addition to each individual abstract submission, a one-page overview of the proposed full session must be submitted directly to the planner via electronic mail at: cbphc2012@gmail.com.

This one-page overview should include:

1. Full session title
2. Name of the lead facilitator and the contact person for the full session
3. Brief overview of the full session and how the individual abstracts are integrated
4. List the individual abstracts for the full session in presentation order, including the following information: abstract number; abstract titles; author(s); time allocated for each presentation (including discussion).

Funding Available
We are most interested in abstracts submitted for presentation by community-academic partners. Limited funding is available through the CBPH Caucus for co-authors from community-based organizations whose abstracts are accepted for presentation during the 2012 meeting.

Opportunities for Youth Involved in CBPH Endeavors!!!
Limited stipends are available through the CBPH Caucus for students who present during the 2012 meeting. Students under 17 must be accompanied by a chaperone. We value young people as the next generation of CBPH activists. True to our vision, we work to support young activists and encourage their attendance to APHA. We ask community-academic partnerships that involve students to please support these students in co-presenting especially, but not limited to, roundtable or poster-sessions (e.g., high school students participating in community-based public health research or activism). Young people 13-25 can participate and become active in the CBPH Caucus Youth Council (see www.cbphcaucus.org for more information).

Continuing Education Credit:
APHA values the ability to provide continuing education credit to physicians, nurses, health educators and those certified in public health at its annual meeting. Please complete all required information when submitting an abstract so members can claim credit for attending your session. These credits are necessary for members to keep their licenses and credentials.

For a session to be eligible for Continuing Education Credit, each presenter must provide:

1) an abstract free of trade and/or commercial product names

2) at least one MEASURABLE objective (DO NOT USE understand or to learn as objectives, they are not measureable).

Examples of Acceptable Measurable Action Words:
Explain, Demonstrate, Analyze, Formulate, Discuss, Compare, Differentiate, Describe, Name, Assess, Evaluate, Identify, Design, Define or List.

3) A signed Conflict of Interest (Disclosure) form with a relevant Qualification Statement. See an example of an acceptable Qualification Statement on the online Disclosure form.

Thank you for your assistance in making your session credit worthy.

Contact Annette Ferebee at annette.ferebee@apha.org if you have any questions concerning continuing education credit. Contact the program planner for all other questions.

Contact Information:
Please feel free to contact the program planners should you have questions regarding your submission.