Community Health Planning and Policy Development

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Call for Abstracts - APHA Annual Meeting 2008
Community Health Planning and Policy Development
DEADLINE EXTENDED!!!! NEW DEADLINE 2/15/08

The CHPPD section invites abstracts related to the conference theme, "Public Health Without Borders” and to areas of health planning and related fields. Abstracts related to reducing barriers to health care or increasing access, results from collaborative interdisciplinary programs and efforts, and reports of sucessful attempts to replicate or transfer programs are particularly relevant to this year's theme. We are especially interested in studies that may inform public health policy and/or describe the impact of existing public health policies; and in abstracts on various aspects of health information technology, disaster/emergency preparedness, translational research, and program evaluation.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Affecting structural change in communities through partnership
  • Developing public health infrastructure to address critical systems development including emergency preparedness and workforce development
  • Methodological techniques and tools utilized in healthcare and community health planning, policy development and evaluation, e.g. Internet, electronic health records including personal health records, and information technology, communication strategies, GIS, etc.
  • Methodological techniques utilized in healthcare and community health planning including strategic planning processes, outcomes research, needs assessments, and qualitative studies
  • Public health advocacy, including descriptions of successful models for influencing policy, regulations and/or legislation
  • Serving cultural and linguistic minorities through public health partnerships, including the cultural competency and proficiency of organizations, health literacy, and language access
  • The impact of the environment on chronic conditions and health prevention, with an emphasis on policy implications
  • The role of ancillary services in access to care
  • The role of government in translating health promotion and disease prevention into effective public policy
  • Transfering program structure or knowledge/replication of programs
Abstracts are limited to 250 words or less. Referral to web pages or URLs may not be used for abstracts. For any and all inquiries about your abstract, always refer to the abstract number assigned to you by the on-line system.

This section encourages students and those who have never presented at an APHA annual meeting, especially minorities, to become "new presenters" in 2007. Be sure to indicate new presenter or student status when you submit your abstract on the web page.

Special Sessions in the Community Health Planning and Policy Development (CHPPD) Section
To propose a special CHPPD session, the session organizer must a) be a member of APHA, and b) have selected CHPPD as first section choice.

First, contact Roy Grant, Chairman, CHPPD Program Planning Committee at rgrant@chfund.org or Danielle Greene, Co-chair, at dgreene@health.nyc.gov with the proposal for a special session.

If the session proposal is approved as appropriate for submission to this section, please do the following:
1) Contact your participating presenters and have them submit their abstracts individually. An abstract number will be assigned and sent to the submitter.
2) The session organizer, who may also be one of the presenters, must keep a record of the abstract title and abstract number for each submitted abstract.
3) The session organizer should email the names of the presenters, their abstract titles and abstract numbers to Roy Grant or Danielle Greene. Please include the session title, a brief description (overview) and session goals in your email.

The Program Committee will keep the set of abstracts together and forward them as a proposed special session to three reviewers. Please remember that each abstract must go through the peer review process to be accepted. If some but not all of the abstracts are accepted, the accepted abstracts will be grouped together for placement in the same CHPPD session.

Special sessions and their component abstracts have the same deadline as individual abstracts submitted to the CHPPD section. There will be no extensions or alternate deadlines for proposed special sessions.
If your special session is accepted, the session organizer is responsible for
1) Selecting and confirming the participation of a session moderator. The session organizer, or one of the presenters, may also moderate the session.
2) Writing the session summary for inclusion in the annual meeting program.
3) Writing the session learning objectives as necessary for the session’s CME accreditation.
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Program Planner Contact Information:
Roy Grant, MA
Policy and Research
The Children's Health Fund
215 West 125th Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10027
Phone: 212-535-9400

and
Danielle Greene, DrPH
Director, Education and Community Partnerships, Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene
New York, NY Phone: 212-442-3051
Fax: 212-442-3156
dgreene@health.nyc.gov