The Family Violence Prevention Forum of the American Public Health Association (APHA-FVPF) invites abstracts for individual paper presentations and poster sessions presentation at the 136th, 2008 Annual Meeting to be held in San Diego, California on October 25th – 29th, 2008.
Topics related to this year's theme, "Public Health Without Borders", and in all areas related to family violence prevention will receive high priority.
Other topics of interest include:
Integrating Child and or Elder Abuse into Family Violence Prevention
Integrating Family Violence Prevention in Public Health Education
Evolving Family Violence Prevention Policy, Locally, Nationally, and Internationally
Expanding the Evidence Base: Status of Current Research
Improving Global Health Care through Integrative Approaches
Best Practice Interventions to address Family Violence Prevention
Community Approaches to Family Violence Prevention
Addressing Family Violence Prevention with the Underserved
- Community Approaches and Best Practice Strategies to Family Violence Prevention
- Improving Global Health Care through Integrative Approaches
- Integrating Family Violence Prevention in Public Health Education
This Call for Abstracts for the APHA-FVPF scientific sessions requests papers that present: Original empirical work (e.g. scientific studies, program evaluations, or organizational case studies), or noteworthy advances in methodology or analysis; Innovative integrative scholarship and scientific work; Programmatic reports of significant research infrastructure development; Programmatic reports of health professions curricular development or educational research; Substantive policy analyses (e.g. systems-wide assessments or policy case-studies); Informative reports on program or project management and development; Other similarly noteworthy, innovative, or informative reports and studies. Joint sessions and sessions co-sponsored with other sections, special interest groups, and caucuses are encouraged. Abstracts will be selected through a rated review process according to significance, timeliness, and overall quality.
An author's paper may not have been presented or published prior to its presentation at the Annual Meeting. The abstract is limited to 250 words. The submission deadline is February 8, 2008.
Abstracts must be submitted electronically through the APHA website. For more information, please email Dr. Derrick Gordon at derrick.gordon@yale.edu.
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Program Planner Contact Information:
Derrick M. Gordon, PhD
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Prevention and Community Research
Yale University
The Consultation Center
389 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Phone: 203.789.7645
Fax: 203.562.6355
derrick.gordon@yale.edu
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Michael Durfee, MD
Pediatrics and Psychiatry
USC School of Medicine
210 Starlight Crest
La Canada, CA 91011
Phone: 8189522053
Fax: 8189522976
michaeld55@aol.com
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