The Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section (PHEHP) of the American Public Health Association announces a call for abstracts for a dedicated student oral session and a dedicated student poster session at this year’s annual meeting being held in Atlanta, GA from November 4-8th.  Students are encouraged to submit abstracts that relate to the conference theme, "Creating the Healthiest Nation: Climate Changes Health” as well as other themes related to public health education and health promotion.  Student awardees can be active at the doctoral, masters, or undergraduate level. Five student awardees will be invited to present their work in an oral session, and ten student awardees will be invited to present their work in a poster session at the conference and will receive a certificate for their participation. Students are also eligible for a stipend ($200 per oral session first author, $100 per poster session first author) if all required information is provided.^[1]  The criteria for selection of awardees can be found at the end of this document.  We are interested in student abstracts that show an individual student’s work on an applied research or evaluation project, abstracts designed to document the community health education and/or health communication work of a student or group of students or projects that contribute to the translation of research. The student submitter must be the first author.  Multiple student authors are acceptable, but only the first author will receive the stipend and certificate.  Faculty members may not be the first author.   The student author or an author from the student group must register for and attend the conference to accept the award.  Abstracts are limited to 250 words, must include at least 2 learning objectives, and must be submitted by 5 p.m. (PST) on Friday, March 3rd, 2017.   

^[1] If selected, you will be required to submit your social security number to obtain your stipend.

This year the submission process instructions are as follows:
 
1. Click on "Start Abstract Submission" below and follow submission instrutions
2. Email your faculty endorsement letter (indicating that you are a student, and that this is your work) in pdf form on school letterhead to Dr. Christine Hackman at PHEHP.studentawards@gmail.com

• PHEHP Student Awards Contest
  The Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section (PHEHP) of the American Public Health Association announces a call for abstracts for a dedicated student poster session at this year’s annual meeting being held in Atlanta, GA from November 4-8th.  Students are encouraged to submit abstracts that relate to the conference theme, " Creating the Healthiest Nation: Climate Changes Health” as well as other themes related to public health education and health promotion.

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Program Planner Contact Information:

Christine Hackman, PhD, CHES, CSCS
Kinesiology
California Polytechnic State University
1 Grand Ave
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Phone: 5183969349
chackman@calpoly.edu

and
Ashley Walker, PhD
phehp.planner@gmail.com

and
Charis Davidson, MPH, CHES, DrPH
Arnold School of Public Health, Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior
University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health
915 Greene St
Room 529
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: 423-503-6710
charis.davidson@gmail.com