CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — APHA 2016 Annual Meeting & Expo

APHA-Council of Affiliates

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

Submission Deadline: Tuesday, May 31, 2016

The Council of Affiliates (CoA) is the APHA unit established to provide leadership to and represent the 54 affiliated public health associations: two each in California and New York; one in the remaining states; one in Metro Washington, DC; and one in Puerto Rico. Affiliates support critical public health efforts in their geographic locations.  Strong Affiliates are critical to APHA.

Affiliate Poster Proposal

CoA is inviting Affiliates to submit abstracts for posters which will demonstrate Affiliate best practices or promising programs for exhibition at the 2016 APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition in Denver, CO, October 29 – November 2, 2 016.  This year the conference will explore the theme “Creating the Healthiest Nation: Ensuring Right to Health”.  In keeping with this theme, proposals on programs that impact policy will be especially welcomed. However, posters can be on any topic related to any work of the Affiliate. Affiliate posters accepted for exhibition also will be posted on the Affiliate Online Community so that all Affiliates will have the opportunity to learn from these model programs. The deadline for submitting poster abstracts is May 31, 2016. Authors will be contacted in early September regarding poster abstract selection for exhibition.

If you have any questions regarding this process, please contact Jennifer Tran, APHA Student Assembly Representative to the CoA, at: jennifertran.apha@gmail.com. For more details and to submit your abstracts, view the APHA website.

Undergraduate and Graduate Student Poster Contests

The CoA is sponsoring two student poster sessions of high-caliber abstracts for undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled in public health-related coursework. Students are encouraged to submit proposals for public health-related work they have either recently completed or in the process of completing for exhibition at the 2016 APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition in Denver, CO, October 29 – November 2, 2 016. This year the conference will explore the theme “Creating the Healthiest Nation: Ensuring Right to Health”.  One poster session will be exclusively for abstracts written by undergraduate students to highlight their public health-related activities and research. The other session will be open to graduate students only (master and doctoral levels) interested in sharing their research and experience in public health. Student posters accepted for exhibition at the annual meeting will be judged by a sub-committee of the CoA, and top winners will be selected and awarded a cash prize of $200 and a certificate acknowledging their work. The deadline for submitting poster abstracts is May 31, 2016. Authors will be contacted in early September regarding poster abstract selection for exhibition.

If you have any questions regarding this process, please contact Jennifer Tran, APHA Student Assembly Representative to the CoA, at: jennifertran.apha@gmail.com. For more details and to submit your abstracts, view the APHA website.

Use the button below to start your submission and be sure to select the appropriate topic:
  • Affiliate Day/Affiliate New Leaders Orientation to APHA
  • Affiliate Poster Proposal
  • Affiliate Staff Meeting
  • CoA Business Meeting
  • Council of Affiliates Business Meeting (ISC/COA Candidates Forum)
  • Graduate Student Poster Contest
  • Inter-sectional Council/Council of Affiliates Joint Meeting
  • Undergraduate Student Poster Contest

Ready?

Program Planner Contact Information:

Jennifer Tran
jennifertran.apha@gmail.com

and
Kim Moore Smith
APHA
kimberly.moore@apha.org

and
Matt Makara, MPH
APHA
800 I. St., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202-777-2428
matt.makara@apha.org

and
Melissa McNeily
APHA
800 I St., NW
Washington, DC 20001
melissa.mcneily@apha.org

and
Pat Parker, MSPH
Missouri Public Health AssociationMO
Phone: 618-407-0659
PatParkerARGC@aol.com