CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — APHA 2016 Annual Meeting & Expo

Academic Public Health Caucus

Meeting theme: Creating the Healthiest Nation: Ensuring the Right to Health

Submission Deadline: Friday, March 4, 2016

Caucus Overview

The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) sponsored Academic Public Health Caucus provides a forum for APHA members to showcase and learn about innovations and excellence in education, training, and academic research from both public health academicians and practitioners within public health institutions (e.g., federal, state, regional, local, private sector or non-profit organizations) that administer or participate in academic and practice partnerships.

Abstract Submission

Abstracts are solicited for oral and poster session formats. Consideration will be given to abstracts that (a) promote the caucus as outlined above; (b) address one or more of the caucus topic areas; and, (c) fulfill the abstract criteria (please review the APHA call for abstracts homepage to learn more about APHA's abstract requirements). This year’s topic areas are as follows:

  • Academic Public Health Caucus Business Meeting
  • Academic Public Health Caucus Poster Session I
  • Academic Public Health Caucus Poster Session II
  • Building the Evidence Base for Academic Health Department Partnerships
  • Delta Omega Poster Session
  • Delta Omega Poster Session I
  • Delta Omega Poster Session II
  • Interdisciplinary curriculum design, revision, implementation, and reflection
  • Key Components of a Quality Practice Based Experience for Students
  • Lessons Learned from Interprofessional Activties and Partnerships between Undergraduate Public Health and Practice
  • Rejected
  • Successful Approaches to Increasing Working Professional's Access to and Utilization of Training
  • TBD
  • TBD -- Using data/needs assessment/resarch/...and Public Health Informatics & Data Analytics in Population Health
Reviewers may consider -- possibly among others --  the following in their review:
1. TOPIC PROMINENCE: Illustrates the importance to public health

2. PRESENTATION OBJECTIVES: The audience “Learning Objectives” are realistic and clear; and the subject’s objectives are clear and measurable

3. PURPOSE: Subject of proposed topic is clear and of high quality

4. PRACTICE IMPACT: Provides evidence that academia and practice were necessary for results; and supports and improves the science of public health practice (cites appropriate methods, data, and measurable conclusions)

5. ACADEMIC IMPACT: Topic is significant to the public health academia domain; imparts scholarship to advance academia's mission to improve education and policies for practitioners, researchers, and teachers. Provides evidence of supporting philosophy

6. ORIGINALITY: Demonstrates originality and innovation

7. TONE: Indicates a working knowledge of operations (e.g., development, challenges, infrastructure) toward improving public health education, training, or services

8. OVERALL: Well written, concise, and effectively outlines and communicates abstract scope, context, and rationale

Important Reminders:

  • Abstracts should be no more than 250 words.
  • You do not have to be an APHA member to submit an abstract. However, if your abstract is accepted for presentation, the presenting author MUST become an APHA Individual member and MUST register for the Annual Meeting by the pre-registration deadline.

Continuing Education Credit

As an organization committed to providing quality continuing education (CE) activities to its membership and meeting registrants, APHA must adhere to the requirements of various accrediting bodies and professional organizations with which it collaborates. APHA has made CE credits/contact hours available in a variety of professional disciplines. Each discipline has its own unique requirements of educational activities, and of the organizations that provide them. Because APHA strives to make as many of its educational activities as possible eligible for CE, it is essential that the presenters (authors, faculty, etc) meet all CE requirements and follow discipline-specific regulations.

For program questions, please contact the program planner listed below.


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Program Planner Contact Information:

Sarah Weiner, MPH, CPH
Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health
1900 M Street NW
Suite 710
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 2022961099
sweiner@aspph.org

and
Rita Kelliher
1900 M Street NW
Suite 710
Washington, DC 20036
reisenstein@aspph.org

and
Allison Foster
ASPPH
1900 M Street NW
Suite 710
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 2022961099
Fax: 2022961099
afoster@aspph.org