The Trade & Health Forum of the American Public Health Association invites abstracts for presentation at the Annual Meeting to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, November 4 - 8, 2017. Submissions related to APHA's 2017 annual meeting theme, “Creating the Healthiest Nation: Climate Changes Health," are encouraged. Submissions should focus on health-related aspects of trade and trade policy, including a) the relationship between trade policy and health status measures, b) how health advocacy and political efforts influence trade policy and c) an examination of underlying societal level structural factors that influence trade and health. Presentations may be scientific studies, descriptions of or evaluations of advocacy activities, or policy analyses.

• Health effects of trade policies
• Advocacy activities for trade policies that promote human health
• Democratic participation in trade agreement formulation
• Corporate influence on trade policy formulation
• Human rights and trade
• Analysis of the health effects of specific trade agreements
• Health workforce and immigration aspects of trade policies
• Tobacco and alcohol trade policies
• Worker safety, health and wage aspects of trade policies
• Effects of trade on indigenous cultures
• Sustainable environments, climate change and trade
• Agriculture and trade policies
• Access to medicines and trade policies
• Privatization of health services and trade policy
• Political economic ideology: implications for health and trade policies
• Spiritual and ethical implications of trade
• Cultural factors and their relationship to trade and health policy
• Structural factors influencing trade and health, including networks of transnational corporations and relations between corporations and governments.

Please submit your abstracts for one of the following sessions:

• Public Health Strategies to Address Trade and Trade Policy 
  
• The Influence of Trade and Trade Policy on Health 
  

Abstracts must be submitted electronically through the APHA website by February 22nd, 2017. The abstract is limited to 250 words. An author’s paper may not have been presented or published prior to its presentation at the Annual Meeting. You do not need 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 you MUST register for the Annual Meeting by the September pre-registration deadline.

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 “to 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 Program Planner Tim K. Mackey at tmackey@ucsd.edu for any questions related to submitting an abstract.

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Program Planner Contact Information:

Timothy Mackey, MAS, PhD
Dept of Anesthesiology
UC San Diego - School of Medicine
8950 Villa La Jolla Dr. A204
A204
La Jolla, CA 92037
Phone: 951-491-4161
tmackey@ucsd.edu