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The Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community seeks to promote and enhance collaborations between communities of faith and all facets of the public health, addressing biological, physical, mental, emotional, environmental, spiritual and social health challenges. From this perspective, the CPHFC believes that public health interventions and research routinely goes beyond the borders of traditional public health practice. In relation to the 2008 APHA Call for Abstracts, the CPHFC encourages abstract submissions that emphasize faith-based collaborations and involvement in local, state, national, or transnational public health interventions. In addition to submissions that address the annual meeting theme, Public Health Without Borders, we also request abstracts that focus on the following:
All abstracts must be submitted with at least two learning objectives in the proper APHA format (i.e., “By the end of the session, the participant will be able to…”). Please check the abstract title and text for spelling and grammatical errors. Do not include your name or contact information in the text portion as this prohibits blind peer review. ALSO, DO NOT EMAIL YOUR ABSTRACT TO THE SESSION ORGANIZERS. Failure to adhere to these guidelines may result in your abstract being rejected. If you are unable to identify a specific session for your abstract, please submit it the topic that most closely relates to your submission. Lastly, all abstracts should contain sufficient details to fully evaluate the value of the work rather than alluding to what “will be” included in the presentation. Abstracts that do not adhere to these requirements will not be reviewed. Peer review of abstracts is blinded. Following are instructions for submitting a proposal for an ENTIRE SESSION ONLY(if applicable): (1) Submit each abstract separately (up to four abstracts per session) to the same topic area. If a session proposal includes abstracts submitted to multiple topic areas, the session proposal will be considered incomplete. (2) Contact the program planners (kcoleman@georgiasouthern.edu or yvonlewis@hotmail.com) with: (a) a brief overview of the session (including relevance to public health and faith-based programming), (b) at least three proposed learning objectives in APHA format for the entire session (all individual abstracts that are part of the proposed session must have individual learning objectives), and (c) the abstract numbers of all abstracts to be included in the session. Session proposals that do not adhere to these requirements will not be considered. Please contact the program planner if you have any questions. Individuals should submit an abstract only if they are committed to presenting the paper or poster themselves or to finding a substitute willing to register, attend the meeting, and present the paper or poster instead. Invitations to present will be withdrawn should authors of award abstracts be unable to present at the Annual Meeting. Please refer to the abstract submission page for abstract submission guidelines (http://apha.confex.com/apha/136am/oasys.epl). The session topics are preliminary and do not reflect the precise content of the final program, which will be based on peer-reviewer evaluations, program theme, and diversity of topics. Neither APHA nor the Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community can provide any financial support (including, but not limited to, registration, airfare, lodging, etc.) for author attendance at the Annual Meeting. Those interested in promoting and enhancing collaborations between communities of faith and all facets of the public health are invited to join the CPHFC. All APHA members are invited to submit abstracts to the Caucus, and you do not have to be a member of the Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community in order to submit an abstract. Please contact the program planners for more information about Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community membership. Submitting an abstract to the Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community implies that you understand the terms of this call for abstracts. Failure to adhere to the instructions outlined in the call for abstracts may result in your abstract not being considered and may impact future submissions. Further, submitting the abstract implies that you (and/or co-authors or colleagues) are willing to present the abstract at the Annual Meeting. |
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