Human Rights are identified as a guide for public health. Under this rights-based approach, health disparities can be understood as rights violations embedded at multiple levels of political, structural, and individual. Additionally, the rights-based approach establishes space for actionable strategies that empower collaboratives, collectives, and individuals for the purpose of emboldening government response to diversity, violations of discrimination, and collective action. The right-to-health framework incentivizes human rights through improved access and utilization that will encourage an improved quality of life through an empirical and evidence-based approach. 

The Human Rights Forum seeks abstracts this year that analyze the different manifestations of injustices and human rights violations in the context of health, education, food, shelter, and immigration and provide strategic solutions to narrowing such inequalities with a lens of women's rights and women's issues, environmental rights and issues, and incarceration. Utilizing the Human Rights framework models, such as partnership building, collective action, and community-driven assessments and research, to lead political activism.

• Advancing Disability Rights as Human Rights: Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Public Health Future
  
• Analyzing the Intersection of Trauma, Violence, Health Disparities and their Impact on Mental Health through a Human Rights Framework--Providing Sustainable Solutions.
  This session examines how poverty, trauma, violence, discrimination, addiction, and health disparities affect underserved communities. It highlights the role of social determinants of health and the importance of holistic and palliative care in addressing rising suicide rates and untreated mental health challenges, which contribute to homelessness, poverty, and poor health outcomes.
• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: Navigating the Ethical Frontier
  
• Climate Impact and Human Rights: A Call for Interdisciplinary Research
  
• Health Disparities and Human Rights: Addressing Refugee Challenges in War-Torn Zones
  
• Human Rights Approaches to Political Inclusion, Advocacy, and Empowerment
  In a divided world, evidence-based solutions are vital. Using a human rights framework, this session explores strategies for empowering disenfranchised groups in political engagement. Contributions may include analyses of movements, policies, laws, or community-based approaches.
• Justice System: Interconnections of Vulnerable and Oppressed Populations through the Lens of the Human Rights Framework
  This session examines how the U.S. justice system intersects with inequality, inequity, and human rights violations affecting vulnerable groups, such as women, youth, minorities, gender-non-conforming individuals, and the physically challenged. Using a human rights framework, it explores systemic complexities and intersectionalities while proposing solutions to related social issues. It welcomes studies analyzing these dynamics through a human rights lens.

Abstracts must be submitted under one of the categories above. All submissions must relate to human rights as a basis for public health. Abstracts are limited to 250 words. Referrals 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 another forum of the APHA. Oral presentations are generally 13–15 minutes in length, with four presenters per session being standard. Those presenting posters should display and be available to answer questions throughout the scheduled 60-minute poster session. If you have any questions, please contact the Co-Chairs Programming Officers. 

1. Structural abstract format (suitable for abstracts on scientific research):

• Background
• Human Rights Framework
• Objectives
• Methods
• Results
• Conclusions

2. Alternative format (suitable for abstracts about policy, programs, interventions, and other types of research evaluations): 

• Background
• Human Rights Framework
• Description
• Results or Lessons Learned
• Recommendations