Caucus Purpose:
The APHA Academic Public Health Caucus is a platform for APHA members to discuss issues of mutual concern regarding academic public health, such as academic public health practice. Specifically, the caucus provides a forum to showcase and learn about innovations in education, training, and academic research not only from public health academicians, but also from practitioners within public health institutions (i.e., federal, state, regional, local, private sector or non-profit organizations or personnel) that administer or participate in Academic/Practice partnerships. Academic/Practice partnerships include, but are not limited to, inter- multi- and trans-disciplinary collaborations to promote health and prevent disease and injury among populations.
Abstract Guidelines: Abstracts are solicited for oral or poster session formats. The theme for 2003 APHA is, “Behavior, Lifestyle, and Social Determinants of Health.” Consideration will be given to abstracts that (a) promote the caucus purpose; (b) address one or more of the caucus' three Topic Areas for 2003; and, (c) fulfill the Abstract Criteria.
TOPIC 1 - Distance Education and Informatics
SubTopic 1: Integration and dissemination of public health informatics within student education and workforce development on a national and global level (Informatics is the use of technology to improve data collection and data utilization to develop appropriate interventions and promote improved prevention research, teaching and health response activities in order to improve population health.);
SubTopic 2: Advancement of the informatics infrastructure in public health and the role of academia (e.g., education, meeting security, regulations, using technology to mediate systems in order to facilitate communication);
SubTopic 3: Leadership competence on current and emerging laws and policies impacting informatics and distance learning.
TOPIC 2 - Academic/Practice Partnerships to Improve the Public Health Infrastructure and the Current and/or Future Workforce
For this Topic Area, mutually beneficial partnerships are sought that not only demonstrate's academia’s role in training, research, and teaching to support health agencies’ daily and emergency operational needs, but also show an agency’s role to inform and instruct academia by sharing its current and future challenges.
SubTopic 1: Leadership knowledge and employment of public health genomics in surveillance, law and ethics
SubTopic 2: Leadership competence on current and emerging laws & policies impacting teaching and research
SubTopic 3: Faculty development and academic involvement in workforce preparedness for: 1)The management of daily and recurring environmental and disease threats, including injury, violence, and trauma; or
(2)The management of threats and incidences from natural or technological disasters (biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear), including mass trauma.
2003 TOPIC 3 - APHA '03 Theme: Behavior, Lifestyle, and Social Determinants of Health
Seeking novel and sustainable methods of behavioral research or teaching for the design, conduct, surveillance, data collection and evaluation of interventions. Collaboration must be exhibited between academia and a health agency or organization (for-profit or non-profit). Abstracts must also possess each of the four elements:
[1] Topic must relate to a recognized national and/or regional population health risk that directly relates to lifestyle, and is also considered a national health objective to address (e.g., found in Healthy People 2010); [2] The implications from the research or teaching activity for academia, practitioners, and communities to be served must be cited; [3] The outcomes for the teaching or research activity must show how the scientific basis of public health practice linkages addresses and improves population health; and, [4] Author(s) must reference and show evidence of the confluence and correlation between the cited health risk(s) and recognized social & economic determinants.
- 2003 APHA Theme: Behavior, Lifestyle, and Social Determinants of Health
- Academic-Practice Partnerships to Improve the Public Health Infrastructure and the Workforce
- Distance/Education and Informatics
2003 ABSTRACT CRITERIA
* Topic Prominence & Uniqueness
- Abstract illustrates innovation, originality, and the potential to improve greater audience knowledge.
- The abstract not only fulfills the one of the caucus' three topic areas for 2003 but also advances the purpose of the caucus (see Call for Abstracts).
* Presentation Objectives: The abstract “Learning Objectives” for the audience (which is required by APHA) are realistic and clear.
* Abstract Objectives: The objectives of the activity to be presented are stated, clear, logical and measurable.
*Scientific Evidence for Academic Public Health Practice
- Abstract provides evidence that academia and practice were necessary to accomplish results.
- Abstract supports and improves the scientific basis of public health practice. The following effectively support the abstract:
1. Methods;
2. Supporting data and philosophy; and,
3. Conclusion(s) that fully confirm and describe the implications of the collaborative activity/project for public health academia, practitioners and the population served.
*Academic Consequence: Topic is significant to the domain to public health academe and imparts scholarship that will advance the mission of public health academia to improve the education and training of future and current practitioners, researchers and teachers.
* Originality: Employs new and innovative strategies and references approaches/philosophy.
* Tone: Abstract implies an understanding of academic-practice linkages to improving public health education, training, and services.
* Overall Abstract Submission: Abstract is well written, concise and effectively communicates the presentation’s scope, rationale, methods of activity/project, and results.
* Authorship: Abstract is co-authored by academic, practice, and/or participating community organizations.
Institutions that request an entire scientific session timeslot must submit each proposed presenter’s abstract with the same main title clearly displayed; subtitles may be used to distinguish each proposed presenter’s abstract. Only one slot is available, and we cannot guarantee that that session requests will be honored.
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