CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — 142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition
Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Healthography: How Where you Live Affects Your Health and Well-being
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, February 19, 2014
The Community Health Planning and Policy Development section (CHPPD) develops and advocates for health planning, policies and practices to promote health equity, community empowerment and social justice. Through the conference, CHPPD hopes to foster continued discourse, interdisciplinary collaboration and translation of practice to policy.
The section invites abstracts which further these objectives while encompassing the section’s mission. In addition, the section also invites scientific sessions and posters which address relevant planning, policy and community development themes aligning with the 2014 APHA Annual Meeting theme, "Healthography: How Where You Live Affects Your Health ". Specifically, we seek abstracts which address one or several of the themes outlined below:
A Healthography Approach To Understanding and Addressing Chronic Disease Disparities
Access to Care: A Four-State Integrated Primary Care and Behavioral Health Response to Disparities along the Gulf Coast
Addressing Disparities in Older Adult Oral Health: Research, Intervention, Information Access, and Access to care
America's Changing Neighborhoods: Poster Session
America’s Changing Neighborhoods Through this theme, we aim to encourage critical and honest examinations of how neighborhoods are responding to the changing demographics across the U.S. Sessions examining changes in affordable housing patterns, spatial and residential segregation, gentrification, food security and the built environment are encouraged.
America’s Changing Urban Neighborhoods: Addressing Disinvestment and Vacancy to Promote Public Health
Barriers to Policy Implementation Presentations discussing known roadblocks to the implementation of intelligent policy, examples of efforts to overcome barriers and challenges still remaining, are sought under this theme.
Beyond the bars: Addressing social determinants for incarceration and re-entry programs
Building Partnerships to Build Healthy Communities: Working with Local Legislators
CHPPD Business Meeting
CHPPD New Member Meeting
CHPPD Social
CHPPD Student Membership Committee Meeting
Collaborative Connections among Communities, Universities, and Public Health Departments
Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Poster
Community Based Participatory Research Applications Here, we seek examples of CBPR which work in engaging communities in best practices, reducing disparities and improving health outcomes.
Community Based Participatory Research: Location,socioeconomics, community populations and cultural pockets within the African American Communities, rising above the barriers
Community Development and Positive Change Under this theme, we seek sessions which demonstrate what success in developing communities looks like, how success in development fosters the fabric of ‘community’, and presents examples of partnerships developed to achieve success.
Community Development and Positive Change Poster
Community-Based Practice in HIV
Community-Based and Community-Engaged Health Promotion Programs
Effecting Change in Indigenous Communities through Policy & Capacity Building
Energy and Sustainability Community health planning and policy development lessons focusing on innovative solutions addressing energy constraints and promoting sustainability are invited under this theme.
Environmental Exposures, Sustainability and Health: Poster Session
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Collaborations
Examining Rural Public Health Health-related disparities are a persistent and serious problem across the nation’s more than 60 million residents. Abstracts related to strategies and interventions that address rural health needs and disparities in access to healthcare.
Food Culture, Desserts and Insecurities: Challenges Minorities face to stay healthy within their own neighborhoods
Food, Health and Equity: Delivering on What Communities Want
From Barbie to Queen of the Night, US sex workers: Risk, demand and health outcomes
Growing the Field of Health Impact Assessment through Collaborative Development of Resources
Health in All Policies (HiAP) Public Health Approaches Is your community using a HIAP approach to addressing a problem, promoting community development and achieving equity? What has the HiAP encompassed? What have been the successes, failures and challenges to implementing a HiAP approach? Tell us your community’s experience with HiAP in key sectors imperative to improving the public's health, such as transportation, housing, peace and food security. Abstracts highlighting the role of public healthapproaches in other sectors, such as corporate social responsibility, are also welcome.
Health in All Policies (HiAP) Public Health Approaches Poster
Healthography and Environmental Influences This theme invites presentations addressing the impact of local environmental stresses and environmental policies on health, such as fracking, pollutant exposure, illegal waste dumping, urban green spaces and environmental justice.
Healthography and Global Determinants of Health
Healthography and the Food Environment
Hey man, are you listening? Community health programs reaching men
Homelessness: Does my zip code matter if I don’t have one?
Hurricane Katrina's impact on disaster preparedness in New Orleans: Where are we now?
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act at the Intersection of Public Health Education, Health Promotion and Law (A collaborative session by the LAW and PHEHP sections of APHA)
Indigenous Solutions in Public Health: Using Research, Practice, & Theory to Build Resilient Communities
Innovations in Population-Based Preventive Oral Health: Examples from State and Local Health Department’s Effort
Integrated and patient centered care delivery models
Veterans’ health
Incarcerated persons
Nursing homes
Urban environments
Linking Survey Data with Environmental Data to Examine Place-Based Population Health
Measuring Progress Towards Health Equity: Positive Deviant Counties and County Health Rankings
Methodological Advances in Healthography: Applications Scientific research employing novel research methodologies such as (but not limited to) agent-based modeling, social network analysis, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and policy analysis furthering our understanding our equity and disparities are sought under this theme.
Methodological Advances in Healthography: Poster Session
Methodological Advances in Healthography: Structural Determinants and Neighborhoods
Models and Tools of Effective Advocacy Tell us about models you have used to build advocacy in the community, and the impact of this advocacy. Discuss the tools you used in planning and training participants to advocate and tools to measure successes and understand failures.
Models and Tools of Effective Advocacy: Empowering Citizens as Advocates
Moving Towards Workable Strategies to Address Barriers to Policy Implementation
Neighborhood Redevelopment and Resilience Under this theme, we seek presentations discussing redevelopment of communities following challenges such as natural disasters, epidemic emergencies and conflict. Abstracts which discuss risk navigation, resilience and redevelopment incorporating green thinking, preventive planning and effective emergency response are encouraged.
Policy Implementation: Barriers and Opportunities
Positive Action Approaches to Reducing Disparities and Building Equity in Nutrition
Positive Action Approaches to Reducing Disparities and Improving Health Equity Under this theme, we seek to receive presentations highlighting examples of communities (counties, zip codes, cities, regions) which have succeeded in reducing health disparities and are moving towards identified health equity targets, with the idea that other communities can emulate such successes.
Public Health Department Practices to Improve Population Health Abstracts from state, local, and territorial health departments that highlight innovative population health promotion programs and practices, the development and use of disease surveillance systems to inform population approaches to improve health, and the use of partnerships and collaborations to increase the reach and improve the health impact and outcomes of health education and health promotion programs.
Public Health Preparedness, Response, & Recovery: Lessons Learned Through Leadership & Collaboration
Rebuilding Resilient Communities: Community Based Surveillance Following A Disaster
Reducing Disparities and Improving Health Equity Through Multi-level Interventions
Research To Action: The Social Determinants Of Mental Health
Shifting the Needle on Policy Change Through Research
Strengthening Communities Through Participatory Research
Suburban Health Inequities: Race, Place and Perceptions
Successful Collaborations and Collective Impact Through Diverse Organizational Partnerships
Successful Collaborations and Collective Impact: Examples from Underserved Communities Examples of trans-disciplinary and trans-agency collaborations tackling public health challenges such as (but not limited to) safety and violence, public transportation, food security, and community integration after incarceration are sought under this heading, emphasizing approaches, resource sharing, policy implementation and challenges.
Successful Collaborations and Collective Impact: Poster Session
Successful Collaborations: Bridging Divides
Supporting Mental Health and Addressing Mental Illness Experienced by Young Adults: On Campus and in the Community
Systems thinking
Telling the Healthography Story Through Community Focused Research, Policy and Action (organized by CBPH Caucus and CHPPD Section)
The Affordable Care Act (ACA): Impact, Implementation and Challenges This theme invites abstracts sharing stories of ACA implementation, challenges to implementation of the ACA, and stories of ACA’s impact locally, regionally and nationally.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA): Impact, Implementation and Challenges: Poster Session
Tools for Care-Coordination: How to Build “Improvement Partnerships” with Managed Care, Primary Care and Behavioral Health Organizations
Tools for Effective and Actionable Advocacy
Who's Really Missing from the HIV Treatment Cascade and How Do We Engage Them?
Women's health and social vulnerability: substance use, incarceration, and immigration
Abstracts should limited to 250 words and must include at least one measurable learning objective or an experiential learning activity. Guidance for writing learning objectives can be found below in the Continuing Education section. Referrals to web pages or URLS may not be used for abstracts. Abstracts must not have been presented or published in any journal prior to the APHA Annual Meeting.
Any abstract requiring the use of film or video must be submitted to the Film and Technology Theater section, regardless of topic.
For any and all inquiries about your abstract, always reference the abstract number assigned to you by the APHA on-line system. To present at the Annual Meeting, all presenters must be Individual members of APHA, must register for the meeting, and must have completed a Conflict of Interest disclosure in advance of the Annual Meeting.
Invited CHPPD Sessions
An invited is an oral scientific session of between four to five panelists on a related issue or multi-faceted project organized by a CHPPD section member. To propose an invited CHPPD session, the session organizer must a) be a member of APHA, b) have selected CHPPD as a section choice, c) and follow all steps listed below.
First, contact program chair Khusdeep Malhotra, and co-chair Shariece Johnson, Co-chair of the CHPPD Program Planning at kmalhotra@msm.edu and shariecejohnson@westat.com with a brief proposal describing the intended session.
Once the Program Committee deems that the proposed session aligns with the themes of CHPPD and the conference, you will be officially invited to submit a detailed proposal. This will require you to complete the following:
1. Completed an invited session cover sheet.
2. Submit each abstract individually through the on-line system no later than the abstract due date. Note each assigned abstract number following submission.
All abstracts will be considered as individual submissions. Consideration for the abstracts as a proposed session will occur after the individual review of abstracts. CHPPD does not generally accept full sessions related to a single project.
A proposed invited session should not include more than 4 abstracts. A minimum of 3 abstracts for a proposed invited session need to be accepted by the review process in order for the invited session to be scheduled. If less than 3 abstracts are accepted, then the accepted abstracts will be combined with other accepted abstracts to develop a different panel, roundtable or poster session.
Invited 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 invited sessions.
Specifically, we seek invited session proposals highlighting community-academic partnerships, public health initiatives led by youth in partnerships with students, and inter-agency partnerships. Invited session planners are encouraged to submit sessions which further critical dialogue beyond Q&A, and actively engage audiences using innovative presentation formats and experiential learning activities. For example, a session may demonstrate and train participants hands-on in the use of an advocacy tool.
Students and New Presenters
We highly value the enthusiastic membership and contribution of students to the CHPPD section’s content. We encourage students to present their work at the 2014 conference, through oral sessions, posters, and panels. We also encourage students to submit abstracts highlighting collaboration with faculty and community members. Members who have never presented at an APHA annual meeting, especially underrepresented groups, are also encouraged to become "new presenters" in 2014.
Please remember to indicate your "new presenter" or "student" status when you submit your abstract on the web page.
Continuing Education Accreditation
APHA values the ability to provide continuing education credit to physicians, nurses, health educators and those certified in public health. Please complete all required information when submitting an abstract so that members may receive CE credit for attending your session. These credits are necessary for members to keep their licenses and/or professional credentials.
For a session to be eligible for Continuing Education Credit, each presenter must provide:
1) an abstract free of trade and/or commercial product names,
2) at least one MEASURABLE objective (DO NOT USE understand or to learn as objectives, they are not measureable) or,
(Acceptable measurable action words include words such as Explain, Demonstrate, Analyze, Formulate, Discuss, Compare, Differentiate, Describe, Name, Assess, Evaluate, Identify, Design, Define or List)
3) an abstract which includes an experiential learning activity encouraging skill development and,
4) a signed Conflict of Interest (Disclosure) form with a relevant Qualification Statement. See an example of an acceptable Qualification Statement on the online Disclosure Form.
Thank you for your assistance in making your session credit worthy. Contact Annette Ferebee at annette.ferebee@apha.org if you have any questions concerning continuing education credit. Contact the program planner for all other questions.
We look forward to your important contribution to CHPPD’s program at New Orleans!
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Program Planner Contact Information:
Khusdeep Malhotra, BDS, MPH Community Health Planning and Policy Development American Public Health Association 800 I Street NW Washington D.C, 20001 Phone: 740-727-3884 kmalhotra@msm.edu
and
Shariece Johnson, MA Public Policy University of Maryland Baltimore County 602 Highland Ridge Avenue Unit 200 Gaithersburg, MD 20878 Phone: 410-961-6885 shariecej@umbc.edu