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The Mental Health Section welcomes paper, poster, roundtable, and session proposals for the 2008 APHA Annual Meeting, October 25-29, in San Diego, California. This year's conference theme is "Public Health Without Borders." We welcome submissions on topics related to (in alphabetical order):
BRUNO LIMA SYMPOSIUM ON MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN MINORITY POPULATIONS: Applicants wishing to be considered for this symposium should ensure that their abstract is submitted under this topic during the electronic submission process. Abstracts not selected for the Bruno Lima Symposium will be considered for inclusion in other sessions. KENNETH LUTTERMAN AWARD: This award is given for the best student paper in the field of mental health. The winner will be invited to present his/her paper at the 2008 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA and will be awarded the cost of APHA conference registration. Eligible students must be members of the APHA Mental Health Section and enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program as of February 4, 2008, the submission deadline. Students should submit an abstract through the normal submission procedure and indicate their wish to be considered for the award. Those students whose abstracts are accepted for conference presentation will then be asked to submit a copy of the full paper to the section program planner by April 1, 2008 for review by the Awards Committee. Submitted papers may be no longer than 10 double-spaced pages, plus references and a maximum of 5 tables/figures. Note: Student papers that do not receive the Lutterman Award may still be accepted for presentation. For more information, contact the program planner. SECTION'S NEW MENTORING PROGRAM: If you are a doctoral student, postdoctoral fellow or junior faculty member without a history of federal funding, please consider submitting an abstract to our mentoring program, under the topic, "Mentoring in Public Mental Health." Each junior investigator will be given 20 minutes to present research ideas and receive feedback before rotating teams of senior researchers. Accepted abstracts will be considered official presentations and listed as such. For more information, please contact David Mandell, ScD, at mandelld@mail.med.upenn.edu. PANEL SESSIONS We also invite submissions for panel session proposals (90 minutes in length). BEFORE submitting a panel session, please contact the program planner. To submit a panel session, follow these directions:
which includes a rationale for the session, the proposed paper titles, and authors. If applicable, also include names of moderator and/or discussant. 2. Title the overall session abstract as "SESSION ABSTRACT - 'your proposed session title'". The overall session abstract is not peer reviewed on its own merits; acceptance is dependent solely on the reviews of the abstracts for individual presentations within that session. 3. Put the contact information (phone and e-mail) for the session organizer directly on the overall session abstract, so we can contact you easily if necessary. 4. Indicate on the overall session abstract whether you would like to have the individual abstracts considered for presentation in other sessions, if your proposed session is not accepted in its entirety. In the "notes to the program planner" section, state either "YES, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ABSTRACTS CONSIDERED SEPARATELY" or "NO, I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE THESE ABSTRACTS CONSIDERED SEPARATELY." 5. Once the panel abstract is submitted, it will be assigned an abstract number. Next, submit a seperate abstract for each individual presentation in the panel. In the 'notes to program planner', please indicate that the abstract is being submitted for a panel and give the overall panel abstract number. |
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