CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — APHA's 2020 VIRTUAL Annual Meeting and Expo
Cancer Forum
Meeting theme: "Creating the Healthiest Nation: Preventing Violence"
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, February 25, 2020
The APHA Cancer Forum invites abstracts for oral presentations, symposia, and posters describing original research and innovative intervention programs or policies that address topics including behavioral, socioeconomic, and environmental risk factors for cancer; prevention, screening, and early diagnosis; cancer treatment patterns, access to care, outcomes, and costs; strategies to address social determinants of health across the cancer care continuum; and cancer survivorship.
Special consideration will be given to abstracts with research related to the Cancer Forum’s topics of particular interest:
Addressing social needs in clinical settings to enhance cancer screening, treatment, and survivorship
Working together: team-based approaches for cancer prevention, screening, treatment, and survivorship
Data resources and data linkages for examining population-based cancer care
Other topics that are relevant to the broader mission of the Cancer Forum include:
AIANNH Roundtable: Promoting Indigenous Health Approaches through Culture, Collaborations, and Community
Addressing Access to Care across the Cancer Care Continuum for Underserved Populations
Big Data and Machine Learning for Health Research
CHWs Innovating to Address Health and Social Disparities
Cancer Forum Poster Session - Prevention & Screening
Cancer Forum Poster Session - Treatment, Survivorship, and Supportive/Palliative Care
Cancer Forum Social Event
Cancer Prevention Enhancing Cancer Prevention efforts (e.g., early interventions targeting risk factors/behaviors; inaccurate information/social media posts on cancer prevention)
Cancer Screening/Diagnosis Improving Cancer Screening and Early Diagnosis (e.g. evaluation of community outreach programs to increase screening rates; costs and benefits of technologies to improve diagnosis)
Cancer Survivorship and Supportive/Palliative Care Developing and Promoting Survivorship Strategies and Resources for Patients and Caregivers (e.g. evaluation of social support programs; novel activities to track and address symptoms associated with cancer or cancer treatments; interventions to improve quality of life for survivors and their caregivers)
Cancer Treatment Advancing Cancer Treatment from a Population Health Perspective (e.g., strategies to enhance quality of care, timeliness of care, and patient-reported outcomes; addressing financial hardship/financial toxicity for individuals with cancer)
Cancer, Chronic Conditions and Aging
Data Resources and Data Linkages for Improving Population-Based Cancer Care
Disease Prevention & Health Promotion Among Asian American, Native Hawai'ian, and Pacific Islander Populations
Examining Social Determinants of Health
Financial and Insurance Issues in Cancer Public Health
HIIT Poster Session # 5: Creating the Healthiest Nation: HIIT Applied in Different Settings Covering Different Topics and Carried out across the Age Spectrum
Improving the Health of African American Men: Novel Approaches for Health Equity
Policies, Laws, and Guidelines Evaluating Policies, Laws, and Guidelines that reduce the public health burden of cancer (e.g. improving access/affordability to screening and treatment; tobacco control regulations; insurance reform; controversies in treatment and prevention guidelines)
Poster Session -Cancer Epidemiology
Public Health Considerations for Small & Intersectional Asian American, Native Hawai'ian, and Pacific Islander Populations
Race/ Ethnic Disparities in Cancer: Epidemiologic Perspectives
Round Table: Programs/Services Addressing Determinants of Health
Special Session 7: Estimating Cohort Study-Related Overlooked Smoking
Submitted abstracts will be evaluated based on their conceptual and methodological quality, innovation and novelty, and relevance to the above themes. Abstracts submitted to the Cancer Forum are required to include quantitative or qualitative data to be considered for acceptance. Preliminary or pilot data are acceptable, but proposed projects or abstracts with no data at the time of the abstract deadline will be rejected.
Abstracts are limited to 300 words or less. Referral to web pages or URLs may not be used for abstracts.
An author may not submit the same abstract to more than one Section, SPIG, Caucus or Forum.
Preferences for oral versus poster presentation will be considered, but the program committee will consider all abstracts for both oral and poster categories. Oral presentations at contributed sessions are generally 13-15 minutes in length. An additional 3-5 minutes will be available for discussion and questions from the audience. Presenters at poster sessions should display their work and be available to answer questions throughout the scheduled 60 minute poster session.
If you are interested in submitting a panel/symposium for consideration as part of the 2020 APHA Cancer Forum program, please contact the Program Planners (contact info below) for additional instructions. For any and all inquiries about your abstract, always refer to the abstract number assigned to you by the online system.
Continuing Education Credit
APHA values the ability to provide continuing education credit to physicians, nurses, health educators, veterinarians, 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: An abstract free of trade and/or commercial product names
At least one MEASURABLE outcome (DO NOT USE “To understand” or “To learn” as objectives, they are not measurable). Examples of Acceptable Measurable Action Words: Explain,
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.
Contact Mighty Fine at mighty.fine@apha.org if you have any questions concerning continuing education credit. Please contact the program planners (listed below) for all other questions.
