Environment

Submit Abstract

Environment Section Call for Abstracts
APHA Annual Meeting – Washington, DC
“Politics, Policy and Public Health”
November 3 – 7, 2007

FULL SESSION PROPOSALS DUE January 24, 2007
INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACTS DUE February 16, 2007 -- EXTENDED DEADLINE

NOTE: Per APHA policy - All accepted presenters are expected to register for the conference and join APHA if not already a member.

The Environment Section is currently seeking abstracts related to the 2007 American Public Health Association annual meeting on “Politics, Policy and Public Health” to be held in Washington, DC, November 3 – 7, 2007

TOPICS OF INTEREST

While abstracts reflecting any innovative work highlighting environmental health will be reviewed, the Environment Section will place emphasis on abstracts related to the following topics. Presentations that explore the political and policy dimensions of these topics are especially encouraged:
  • Built Environment (ex: housing, relationships between health and urban infrastructure, urbanization)
  • Children's Environmental Health (ex: environmental risks at home and at school, environmental health risks with disproportionate impacts on children)
  • Clean Air and Water (ex: pollution, waterborne disease, water scarcity)
  • Decision Making in Environmental Health (ex: key federal initiatives in 2008, risk assessment, Health Impact Assessment, evaluation of decision making, environmental health indicators and surveillance)
  • Emerging Environmental Health Challenges (ex: persistent bioaccumulative toxins, endocrine disruptors, biotechnology, nanotechnology, emerging infectious disease and environment)
  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (ex: influence of social, economic, or cultural factors on environmental health risks; exposure, impact, or policy inequities)
  • Food and the Environment (ex: food safety, foodborne illness, food contamination in production or distribution, pesticides)
  • Global Environmental Health (ex: global climate change, international environmental health, transboundary pollution and waste, impacts of global economy)
  • Healthy Ecosystems – Healthy People (ex: sustainable use of land, resources or energy; ecosystem changes, species diversity and human health; natural disasters)
  • Innovative Environmental Health Policies (ex: state, local and community-based initiatives; local-state and state-federal collaborations; inter-disciplinary approaches; approaches in other countries; chemical use reduction; precautionary principle)
  • Student Poster Session
  • Student abstracts (other)
  • Student abstracts (other; oral)
  • Trash
  • X01 Global Climate Change and the Public Health Community: Mobilizing for Precautionary Action
  • X02 Consequences of Global Change on Human Health
  • X03 [BEI] Health in the Greenhouse: Global climate change and the built environment
  • X04 [BEI] Housing and Health: Patterns of Residential Health and Safety Hazards and Successful Intervention Strategies in Urban and Rural Communities
  • X05 [BEI] Community Design, Physical Activity and Quality of Life
  • X06 Making housing healthy for children through medical-legal partnerships and financing strategies
  • X07 Sustainable seafood: Optimizing health and the environment
  • X08 The Common Ground of Food, Nutrition, and Ecological Health
  • X09 Bugs, drugs, and flu: Human health impacts of intensive animal agriculture
  • X10 Industrial Hog Operations, Environmental Injustice, and Public Health
  • X11 New Support for Community-Based Environmental Health Initiatives through Improved Collaboration among Federal Agencies, States, and Health Organizations
  • X12 Uranium, Navajo, Policy and Health
  • X13 Children's Environmental Health: Toward Sustainable Understanding, Interventions, and Policies Worldwide
  • X14 Using the National Environmental Public Health Performance Standards to Improve Agency Capacity
  • X15 Leadership in Action: Results from the National Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute
  • X16 Strategies to build community capacity to engage in the environmental health research process
  • X17 Meeting the environmental health needs of Native American and Alaska Native communities
The topics and examples listed above are meant to stimulate ideas for abstract submission. The topics are not exhaustive or mutually exclusive. In fact, the Section encourages integrative approaches to environmental health. When choosing which track to submit an abstract, authors should select the one they feel best represents the major focus of the abstract.

INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACT contributions will be considered for:
1. An oral presentation of 10–30 minutes
2. A poster presentation during a 90-minute session
3. A round table presentation of 10–30 minutes

FULL SESSION contributions will be considered for:
1. A 90-minute oral session with 4 or 5 back-to-back presentations on the same topic.
2. A round table session with up to 10 presentations run simultaneously during a 90-minute block of time.
3. A poster session with 10 boards presented during a 90-minute block of time.

All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and ranked for quality, topic applicability, and relation to overall Section priorities. Every effort will be made to accommodate the author’s presentation preference for accepted abstracts (e.g., oral presentation or poster). However, the Environment Section may not be able to accommodate all presentation preferences.

STUDENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS, public health, and other health related fields are encouraged to submit abstracts for posters pertaining to their academic research. Up to 10 students who are first and presenting author on their contributed abstract will be eligible for the Environment Section’s Student Achievement Awards. The poster will be judged for presentation style, knowledge of the subject matter, and project quality. Up to three finalists will be awarded prizes at the Environment Section’s Social Hour.

Eligibility requirements:
1. A student enrolled in an academic degree program completed the work in the abstract.
2. Abstract must be submitted to the Environment section. Students interested in having their abstracts considered for an award should indicate their interest in the abstract.
3. The student must be enrolled in 3+ credit hours during the November 2007 meeting or have graduated no earlier than May 2007. If the abstract is accepted for presentation, proof of student status will be requested

STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS
A limited number of student travel awards are available. It is not necessary to submit an abstract to be eligible for a travel award; however, extra consideration will be given to students who submit an abstract. For information about travel awards, contact the program planners at: apha.environment@yahoo.com

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS
• Abstract must be submitted online via APHA’s Web site
• After reading the instructions, complete all specified steps, and click “SUBMIT ABSTRACT.”
• If you do not have Internet access, please contact the APHA Program Staff for specific instructions.
• Abstracts over 250 words will not be accepted.
• All abstracts must be submitted online by February 16, 2007.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING FULL SESSION PROPOSALS
• Request Full Session Proposal Form from the program planners at: apha.environment@yahoo.com
• Return completed Proposal Form to the program planners at: apha.environment@yahoo.com
• Proposal Form must be received BEFORE 5:00 pm EST, January 19, 2007.
• If a Full Session Proposal is accepted, submitter(s) will be directed to enter each abstract online by the APHA deadline for submitting individual abstracts, February 16, 2007.
• BEFORE 5:00 pm on February 17, 2007, the person who organized the Full Session proposal must send the APHA abstract number for each abstract (in a single email) to the program planners at: apha.environment@yahoo.com
• Acceptance of the full session proposal is contingent on successful review and acceptance of the individual abstracts.

To ensure the quickest and safest handling of your inquiry, request or Full-Session Proposal, please use the following email address and not the program planners' work email:

EMAIL: apha.environment@yahoo.com
Submit Abstract

Program Planner Contact Information:
William E. Daniell, MD MPH
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
University of Washington
Box 357234
Seattle, WA 98195-7234
Phone: 206-685-3160
Fax: 206-685-3990
bdaniell@u.washington.edu

and
Barbara Glenn, PhD
Office of Research and Development
US Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW (8723F)
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202-343-9721
Fax: 202-233-0677
glenn.barbara@epa.gov