The Peace Caucus was founded in 1985 to educate and engage the influential voice of public health professionals in efforts to promote peace. Through outreach and educational activities, we strive to illuminate that peace and social justice are key determinants of the health of individuals and communities across the globe. The Peace Caucus invites abstracts on a broad range of topics relating to peace and social justice, health and human rights.

We seek abstracts that focus on the broad range of health consequences of war, violence and conflict and on solutions related to the prevention of war, violence and conflict. We welcome abstracts that will advance the uptake of APHA’s 2009 policy “The Role of Public Health Practitioners, Academics, and Advocates in Relation to Armed Conflict and War" within and beyond APHA. http://www.apha.org/advocacy/policy/policysearch/default.htm?id=1391 and build on the 2017 APHA Conference theme "Creating the Healthiest Nation: Climate Changes Health."

We encourage co-sponsorship and participation in planning of these sessions by other sections, SPIGs, and caucuses, as well as by new professionals and students. We are seeking oral presentations and films to be included in the convention film festival. We are not allocated any poster session time slots.

Please feel free to contact Program Planner Nada Alnaji at nada.alnaji@unmc.edu  if you would like to discuss your ideas prior to submission.  Broad categories of potential sessions include:

• Climate change and the effect on war and peace
  
• Climate, war and conflict, and the global refugee trail
  
• The impacts of war and conflict on veteran's health
  

Sessions will be developed from the submissions, so do not be completely constrained by these titles. Questions? We welcome phone calls prior to abstract deadline to answer your questions, discuss your ideas and suggestions, and help you submit an abstract.

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. These credits are necessary for members to keep their licenses and 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). Examples of Acceptable Measurable Action Words: Explain, Demonstrate, Analyze, Formulate, Discuss, Compare, Differentiate, Describe, Name, Assess, Evaluate, Identify, Design, Define or List. 3) 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.

Please feel free to contact Program Planner Nada Alnaji at nada.alnaji@unmc.edu if you would like to discuss your ideas prior to submission.

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Program Planner Contact Information:

Nada Alnaji
nada.alnaji@unmc.edu

and
Patrice Sutton, MPH
Research Scientist
University of California San Francisco
550 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: 415 407 8806
psutton2000@yahoo.com