Call for Reviewers

"Making the Public’s Health a National Priority"

The American Public Health Association is looking for reviewers for the APHA 2025 Annual Meeting and Expo.

The theme of the meeting — "Making the Public’s Health a National Priority".

Reviewers have the opportunity to get a firsthand look at the abstracts submitted during the Call for Abstracts and to help develop the scientific content presented during the meeting.

Membership

Being a reviewer is an exclusive APHA member benefit. Click to join now         to take advantage of this career development opportunity!

How to sign up as a reviewer:

  1. Scroll down to select a specific Section, SPIG, Caucus or Forum for which you would like to review abstracts.
  2. Click on the Reviewer Submission Form to complete the contact information form.
  3. From the drop-down list, select 1-3 session topics that you would like to review.
  4. Click Save and Continue.
  5. Complete the APHA Conflict of Interests Disclosure Form. APHA must be in compliance with this requirement by the Continuing Education Credentialing Bodies.
  6. A program planner will review your information and assign you abstracts to review. You will receive an email by April 2 with instructions and deadlines. Please note that some deadlines may vary depending on the program.
  7. Reviewers will be required to read abstracts and rate them according to the criteria provided.

We need your expertise to help make the meeting a success!

Select an APHA program

All Deadlines 11:59 pm PST
APHA Focused Topics
Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
APHA Committee on Womens Rights

Anna La Manna, lamanna@email.wustl.edu; Hanna Idriess-D, hannasidd@gmail.com; Heather Tillewein, tilleweinh@apsu.edu, 636-578-1266

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
APHA Student Assembly

Donna Wright, donna.wright@apha.org; Ankita Gupta, apgupta3@illinois.edu; Karen Williams, tyralesekwilliams@gmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Early-Career Professional

Garvita Thareja, gthareja@msudenver.edu; Marytherese Agwara, agwaramarytherese@yahoo.com; Nancy Sherwood, Nancy.sherwood@apha.org

All Deadlines 11:59 pm PST
Sections
Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Aging & Public Health

Temitope Kayode, topekay50@yahoo.co.uk; Patricia Fletcher, patriciafletcher@me.com; Bobbie Johannes, bjohannes@geisinger.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

Jessica Cance, jessica.cance@gmail.com; Victoria Pless, victorialpless@gmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
APHA Committee of Health Equity

Jayson Forbes, jf1530@nova.edu; Deborah Smith, deborah.smith@lsuhs.edu; Tia Williams, tia.taylor@apha.org

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-04-07
APHA Public Health Film Festival

Kerstin Hundal, kerstinkalke2023@u.northwestern.edu; Osman Galindo, osman.galindo@uth.tmc.edu; Mueenah Anibaba, manibaba@tulane.edu; Tammy Kremer, tammy.kremer@ucsf.edu; Steven Passmore, steven.passmore@umanitoba.ca; Kelsey Witmeier, kwitme@lsuhsc.edu; Amitha Halthore, amh342@pitt.edu; Gary Ashwal, gary@boostershotmedia.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Applied Public Health Statistics

Wenjun Li, Wenjun_Li@uml.edu; Jason Wang, jwang11@northwell.edu; Guang Xu, guangxu@marian.edu; Niloofar Ramezani, ramezanin2@vcu.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Chiropractic Health Care

Cynthia Chapman, chapman_cy@yahoo.com; Dana Madigan, dmadig2@uic.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Community Health Planning and Policy Development

Ebony Johnson, ejohnson@unitedwayatlanta.org

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Community Health Workers

Shontel Minor, shontel.minor@txaheceast.org; Paige Menking, pcmenking@gmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Disability

Robyn Powell, rpowell3@law.stetson.edu; Lindsey Mullis, lindsey.c.mullis@uky.edu, 859-218-4064; Emre Umucu, eumucu@utep.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Environment

Kyra Shields, kyra.naumoff@gmail.com; Ryan Johnson, rjohnson@habitablefuture.org; Elizabeth Rojo, elizabeth.rojo@duke.edu, 510-560-9419; Saswati Upadhyay, Saswati.Upadhyay@uth.tmc.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Epidemiology

Siobhan Maty, siobhanmaty@gmail.com; Kesha Baptiste-Roberts, baptika@gmail.com, 443-885-4013; Lindsay Joy-Wenning, ljoy-wenning@health.in.gov

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-04-03
Ethics

Eldonna Chesnut, eldonna.chesnut@jocogov.org; Caitlin McMahon, cem2173@cumc.columbia.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Food and Nutrition

Natalia Santos, nsantos@unmc.edu; Rebecca Larson, rebeccalarson2@gmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Foot and Ankle Health

Adam Fleischer, adam.e.fleischer@gmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Genomics Forum Late Breakers


Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Health Administration

Rich Timmons, timmonrp@dph.sc.gov, 803-576-2761; Pavani Rangachari, prangachari@newhaven.edu; Sonali Salunkhe, sonalisalunkhe@isu.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Health Informatics Information Technology

Diane Adams, adamsd481@aol.com; Iris Zachary, zacharyi@missouri.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
HIV/AIDS

Jennifer Kibicho, kibicho@uwm.edu; Precious Patrick Edet, pedet@olemiss.edu; Chadwick Campbell, ckc003@health.ucsd.edu; Danielle Campbell, ms.danielle.campbell@gmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-04-02
Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

Renee Johnson, rjohnson@jhu.edu; Larry Cook, larry.cook@hsc.utah.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Integrative, Complementary and Traditional Health Practices

Katherine Smith, smithkz@umich.edu; Dana Garfin, dgarfin@ucla.edu; Malik Tiedt, mt3726@tc.columbia.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
International Health

Jirair Ratevosian, jratevosian@gmail.com; Lanice Williams, lanice.williams@gmail.com; Arisa Shichijo Kiyomoto, arisak@unc.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Law

Leigh Haynes, leighkamore.haynes@ugent.be

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Maternal and Child Health

Kim Arcoleo, arcoleok@msu.edu; Lesley Cottrell, lcottrell@hsc.wvu.edu; Mary Mitsdarffer, MitsdarfferM@gmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Medical Care Section

Kara Allard, kallard3@bwh.harvard.edu; Cody Mullen, cody.mullen@gmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Mental Health

Silicia Lomax, lomaxs@sas.upenn.edu; Kaleea Lewis, Lewiskal@health.Missouri.edu; Donald McMahon, donald.j.mcmahon@gmail.com; Genevieve Graaf, genevieve.graaf@uta.edu; Mary Jane Alexander, mja@nki.rfmh.org; Hyunsung Oh, hyunsung@asu.edu; Jamie Black, jsblack@uab.edu; Jenn Reed, jholl2@pdx.edu; Mason Breitzig, mbreitz1@hfhs.org; Ruta Rangel, rbraz@gwu.edu; Robin Lanzi, rlanzi@uab.edu; Michael Baldwin, michael.baldwin@alaska.gov; Shir Lerman Ginzburg, ginzburg.shir@gmail.com; Wei-Ju Chen, weiju.r.chen@gmail.com, 432-552-2346; Jenn Miller, jennmiller@csus.edu; Talia Panadero, taliapan23@g.ucla.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Occupational Health and Safety

Katherine Goscilo, Katherine.goscilo@gmail.com; Paula Malibran, Malibran.080302@gmail.com; Celeste Monforton, cmonfort@email.gwu.edu; Peter Dooley, peterfdooley@gmail.com, 734-320-5160; Mary Miller, marymill@uw.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
One Health

Anna Makaretz, anna.makaretz.apha@gmail.com; Thomas Doker, thomas.doker@gmail.com; Stephanie Masiello-Schuette, stephanie.masielloschuette@dairy.org

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Oral Health

Tooka Zokaie, ztooka@gmail.com; Nithya Puttige Ramesh, nramesh@hsdm.harvard.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Pharmacy

Marie Barnard, mbarnard@olemiss.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
PHEHP Student Awards Contest

Charis Davidson, Charis.davidson@gmail.com; Christine Hackman, chackman@calpoly.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Physical Activity

Chelsey Kirkland, cbruce5@kent.edu; Grace Forlines, grace.forlines@gmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Public Health Education and Health Promotion

LuBeth Perez, lubeth.perez@uth.tmc.edu; Jiun-Yi Tsai, jiun-yi.tsai@nau.edu; Andrea Medeiros, aportillo37@gmail.com; Karen Mancera Cuevas, kmcuevas@nhcouncil.org

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Public Health Nursing

Pamela Jones, prjones1@gmail.com; Rebecca Shasanmi Ellis, rs2327@georgetown.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Public Health Social Work

Sana Malik, sana.k.malik@stonybrook.edu; Amy Hammock, amy.hammock@stonybrook.edu, 631-444-3108

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
School Health and Wellness

Diane-Marie St George, dstgeorge@som.umaryland.edu; Jessica Liu, jessicaliu93@gmail.com; M. Elaine Auld, auldm8879@gmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH)

Bonnie Epstein, bkemengso@gmail.com, 862-349-2717; Liesl Nydegger, liesl.nydegger@jhu.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Vision Care

Kathleen O'Connor, koconnor1@cdc.gov

All Deadlines 11:59 pm PST
Forums
Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-04-03
Breastfeeding

Diana Cassar-Uhl, DianaIBCLC@gmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Cancer

Sarah Nechuta, nechutas@gvsu.edu; Michelle Shin, mbyshin@uw.edu; Marlo Vernon, mvernon@augusta.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Genomics Forum

Karmen Reynolds, karmen.reynolds22@gmail.com; Haley Director, haley_director@comcast.net; Andrea Durst, adurst@pitt.edu, 412-624-3190

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Human Rights Forum

A. Richie-Zavaleta, arichiezavaleta@gmail.com; Meredith Gaffney, mgaffney@bridgeport.edu, 203-871-7067; Sofia Karimi, skarimi@apiahf.org

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Trade and Health Forum

Elise Pohl, elisepohl@gmail.com

All Deadlines 11:59 pm PST
Caucuses
Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Academic and Practice Linkages in Public Health Caucus

Kaitlin Tager, ktager@aspph.org; Emily Burke, eburke@aspph.org

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus

Nicole Lee Ellison, nicole.ellison@und.edu; Roselle Martin, roselle.martin@und.edu, 701-278-1314

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Asian & Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health

Alexa Rabino, alexarabino@csus.edu; David Doan, david.c.doan@gmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Black Caucus of Health Workers

George Smith, gsmith33@csu.edu; Ericka Horne, ericka.horne90@gmail.com; Jill Dingle, jillwdingle@hotmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Caucus on Homelessness

Brett Poe, bpoe@nhchc.org; Chelsea Hensley, chensley@nhchc.org

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community

Jacqueline Tiema-Massie, jacquelinemassie21@gmail.com; Eboni Haynes, eboni@themahoganygroup.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health

Ogbonnaya Omenka, isaacomenka@gmail.com; Kelechi Ibe-Lamberts, klamber4@uic.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Community Based Public Health Caucus

Angela Young-Brinn, successfulangela@gmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Family Violence Prevention Caucus

Lindsey King, linking@ufl.edu; Nicole Sutton, nicolesutton@usf.edu; Lan Pham, LPham@ph.lacounty.gov

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Latino Caucus

Mary Mitsdarffer, MitsdarfferM@gmail.com; Eduardo Cardiel, ecardi3@uic.edu; Nequiel Reyes, nxr780@miami.edu; Jeannie Concha, jeannie@utep.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
LGBTQ Health Caucus

Gilbert Gonzales, gilbert.gonzales@vanderbilt.edu, 409-599-1719

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Men's Health Caucus

Clara Wellons, clarawellons@gmail.com, 617-792-7730; Georgiana Logan, logang@marshall.edu

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Peace Caucus

Patrice Sutton, psutton2000@yahoo.com; Naseem Parsa, nparsa2@uic.edu; Elise Pohl, elisepohl@gmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Veterans Caucus

Jenevieve Peecher, veterans.caucus.apha@gmail.com; Andrew Michalik, andrewmichalik1@gmail.com

Call for Reviewers
closed on
2025-03-31
Women's Caucus

Michelle Williams, m.williamsfamu@mac.com