The Latino Caucus requests the submission of original research and interventions in the Latino community for dissemination at the 144^th APHA Annual Meeting. The theme, Creating the Healthiest Nation: Ensuring the Right to Health, presents an opportunity to discuss the unique challenges and opportunities and best practices for prevention and protection learned and adapted from multiple contexts that affect our Latino communities.  To accomplish this goal, government agencies, community organizations, schools, healthcare organizations and other community members must work together in a comprehensive approach. It is important to discuss how multiple conditions affect Latino communities’ right to health.

The Scientific Program Subcommittee of the APHA Latino Caucus particularly encourages emerging and established Latino scholars, practitioners and graduate students to submit their research. Please submit scientific papers that address questions of the complex intersections of prevention and wellness, community resources, structural inequality, gender, geography and ethnicity and the impact of these intersections across the lifespan such as for children, adolescents, mid-life and older adults. We are looking for innovative approaches to address prevention and wellness in the Latino community.

The abstracts will be organized into one of the following: oral presentation, roundtable discussion, and poster session.  While all abstract submissions are welcome, particular topics of interest this year include:

• Discrimination, Equity & the Right to Health
  
• Education for the Health of Latino Communities
  
• Ensuring the Right to Health for All Latino Families: Needed Policy Changes
  
• Food, Housing, and Transportation Issues
  
• Healthcare Reform in Latino Communities: A Right to Health Approach
  
• Healthy Working and Environmental Conditions for Latino Communities
  
• Helen Rodriguez-Trias Breakfast
  
• Public Health Young Professionals and Students: Improving the Health of Latino Communities
  

We strongly encourage students to submit their abstracts, and to indicate their student status in the appropriate checkbox. We will select the best student abstract for recognition at our annual awards program! For more information, contact the co-chairs of the scientific program for the Latino Caucus, Dr. Patricia Y. Miranda (pym1@psu.edu) and Dr. Daniel López-Cevallos (Daniel.Lopez-Cevallos@oregonstate.edu).

Please note that all abstracts are peer-reviewed and evaluated using the following criteria:

• Clarity of presentation: statement of problem, relevance, methods, results, and conclusions

• Quality and completeness of reported findings

• Originality and implications of findings to research, practice, and/or policy

• Overall impact on Latino communities

 Continuing Education Credit

 APHA values the ability to provide continuing education credit to physicians, nurses, health educators and those certified in public health at its annual meeting. Please complete all required information when submitting an abstract so members can claim credit for attending your session:

1) Abstract must be free of trade and/or commercial product names;

2) Abstract must have at least one MEASURABLE objective (DO NOT USE understand or to learn as objectives, they are not measureable; examples of acceptable measurable action words: explain, demonstrate, analyze, formulate, discuss, compare, differentiate, describe, name, assess, evaluate, identify, design, define or list);

3) You must sign the Conflict of Interest (Disclosure) form with a relevant Qualification Statement. See an example of an acceptable Qualification Statement on the online Disclosure form.

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Program Planner Contact Information:

Daniel Lopez-Cevallos, PhD
Oregon State University
262 Waldo Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
Phone: 541-838-8021
Fax: 541-838-8228
daniel.lopez-cevallos@oregonstate.edu

and
Patricia Y. Miranda
College of Health and Human Development
The Pennsylvania State University
601G Ford Building
University Park, PA 16802
pym1@psu.edu