The Food and Nutrition Section invites you to submit abstracts for the APHA 136th Annual Meeting, Public Health Without Borders, to be held October 25 - 29 in San Diego, CA. Evidenced-based practice, research, and policy-related abstracts that highlight public health nutrition, food safety and security, and nutrition and physical activity are encouraged.
Student abstracts are highly encouraged and an award will be presented for the student abstract receiving the highest score from reviewers. Additionally, the Food & Nutrition Section seeks innovative technology-based abstracts (interactive phone, internet, mass media, film and theater) that can be presented in the Film and Technology Theater.
- Barriers to Effective Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration
- Challenges in Achieving Food Safety and Food Security
- Child Care: Nutrition and Physical Activity
- Child Nutrition
- Ethnic/Cultural Differences in Diet Quality
- Faith-based, Community-based Nutrition
- Food Safety and At-Risk Populations
- Food Safety and Educational Outreach
- Food Safety in Global Marketplace
- Food Security
- Food Stamp Nutrition
- Healthy Food Assistance
- Infant Feeding and Health
- Innovations in Early Childhood Feeding
- International Nutrition Research
- Nutrition and Chronic Disease
- Nutrition and Immigrant Health
- Nutrition and the Elderly
- Overweight Adult Prevention
- Overweight Child Prevention
- Physical Activity Interventions Designed to Reduce Health Disparities
- Promoting Physical Activity Through Environmental and Policy Approaches
- School Nutrition
- Sustainable Agriculture Initiatives on Local Dietary Intake
- Technology in Tracking and Promoting Physical Activity
- Women, Infants, and Children Reauthorization
Abstracts should be no less than 150 words and no more than 250 words. Please include in your submission the type of presentation preferred, (oral or poster), as well as 3 measurable objectives. Due to the high quality and volume of abstracts submitted to the Food and Nutrition Section, abstracts must include the following elements: 1) introduction or background; 2) program design/methodology that entails scientific research (for both quantitative or qualitative research); 3) program evaluation results or expected results; and, 4) discussion, to include importance or significance of the work.
Within the categories of public health nutrition, food safety and security, and nutrition and physical activity, the Food and Nutrition Section identified specific topics of abstracts that will be considered for the 136th APHA Conference. Each abstract topic may focus on policy, regulation, and statute; surveillance and epidemiological findings; behavioral and attitudinal research; social marketing, educational interventions, and program research; and new technologies.
We are hopeful that solicitation of these abstracts will help us gain understanding and promote resolution to the food and nutrition public health challenges we face domestically and internationally.
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Program Planner Contact Information:
Janice Adams-King, RN, BSN, MS
OPEAO/Food Safety Education Staff
US Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service
5601 Sunnyside Avenue
Beltsville, MD 20705
Phone: 301-344-4745
Fax: 301-504-2092
janice.adams-king@fsis.usda.gov
and
Meredith Morrissette, MPH
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute
6130 Executive Blvd, EPN 4019
Bethesda, MD 20892-7344
Phone: 301-594-6984
Fax: 301-435-3710
morrissm@mail.nih.gov
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