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.

• A Focus on Equity: Addressing Family Violence Among Highly Impacted Groups
  A Focus on Equity: Addressing Family Violence Among Highly Impacted Groups
• Advanced Topics in Community Health Planning and Policy Development II
  
• Advancing equity and trauma-informed responses to gender-based violence
  
• Advancing women’s health: Addressing maternal disparities, gendered health risks, and violence prevention
  
• 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.
• Applying Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Practice and Research: Exploring Challenges & Opportunities
  Ethical challenges of utilization of artificial intelligence (AI), large language models (LLMs), social media, algorithms, and "big data" systems in public health practice, including in institutes of higher learning and/or in state and local health.
• Applying Social and Historical Lessons in Public Health Ethics
  Social and political history of public health, especially addressing local ethical challenges of the public health community.
• Barriers and Enablers of Health Equity Among Immigrants, Refugees, and Forcibly Displaced Populations
  We view Health Equity as entailing more than equality in access to health care or services, but also emphasizing the determinants of health inequities, such as socioeconomic challenges and lack of access to proper education, and the need to create opportunities for all to achieve their best possible health.
• Beyond Shelter: Innovative Models for Addressing and Understanding Homelessness
  
• Bridging gaps in cancer prevention and screening: Addressing equity across the cancer continuum
  
• Bridging the Gap: Addressing Homelessness Among Marginalized Communities
  
• Building Inclusive Communities: Addressing Health Needs of Persons with Disabilities
  
• CRIH Roundtable Session: Health Communication and Navigation of Care among Immigrants, Refugee and Forcibly Displaced Communties.
  This session format is designed to facilitate interactive and in-depth discussions on specific topics related to the health of immigrants, refugees, and forcibly displaced populations. The roundtable format allows for a more intimate and collaborative exchange of ideas among participants.
• Climate Change and Global Health
  Submissions in this category may address a range of issues related to climate change, e.g., epidemiology of related disease burden, policies to make health systems more resilient to climate change, and health sector interventions that contribute to global action on climate change.
• Climate Crisis and Human Rights: Integrating Knowledge for Equitable Solutions
  This session explores the urgent intersection of climate change and human rights, focusing on how rising temperatures, extreme weather, and displacement disproportionately affect vulnerable communities. It invites abstracts that examine these impacts, advocate for equitable solutions, and consider the role of international law and governance in promoting climate justice and protecting human rights.
• Commercial Determinants of Health 2.0 (A collaborative session with International Health section)
  
• Community Engagement to Foster Trust and Participation in Multidisciplinary Initiatives to Advance Health Equity for Immigrants, Refugees, and Forcibly Displaced Populations
  We view Community Engagement as a key to addressing health inequities, which involves more than culturally sensitive methodologies, but also meaning engagement, transparency, and strategic partnerships
• Community Research and Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Research Applications in Public Health Ethics.
  Challenges and developments in public health ethics globally, internationally, and in relation to U.S. public health. Examples include policies, research projects, and ethical case studies.
• Community Resilience: Bridging Climate Change and Public Health
  Addressing the health impacts of climate change, such as increased respiratory issues, heat-related illnesses, and vector-borne diseases.
• Critical Issues Facing Minoritized & Vulnerable Communities: PH Ethics in Practice
  Exploring public health practice, research, academics and other cases that apply a public health ethics lens by addressing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB), and addressing vulnerabilities and strengths of minoritized populations.
• Cycles and silences: Advancing menstrual and menopausal health equity
  
• Decolonizing Global Health
  Submissions in this category may address a range of issues such as understanding and characterizing the problem, developing policies, and implementing innovative programs and interventions in academia, publishing, global health workforce, program implementation or beyond.
• Deliberate Partnering: Dynamic Expectations for Community Engagement in Public Health
  Challenges of transparency and community engagement in building and maintaining responsive partnerships. Examples include: deliberating and balancing ethical tradeoffs and considerations inherent to public health practice; actively collaborating with local communities in designing, evaluating, and funding public health programs; redressing failures of public health; and/or developing sound public health policy.
• Determinants of Health and Mental Health Poster Session
  
• Dimensions of Teen & Young Adult Well-Being with a Focus on Family Violence, Dating Violence, and Childhood Maltreatment
  Dimensions of Teen & Young Adult Well-Being with a Focus on Family Violence, Dating Violence, and Childhood Maltreatment
• Disparities and Inequities in Global Health
  Submissions in this category may cover a range of factors that play an important role in disparities and inequities such as gender, wealth, race, sexual orientation/identity,power, geography, etc.
• Disparities and Inequities in Global Health #2
  
• Disparities and Inequities in Global Health Poster Session
  
• Elevating Traditional and Non-Traditional Partners to Drive Racial Justice and Health Equity—Now More Than Ever
  
• Eliminated HIV Related Disparities - Poster Presentation
  
• Emerging Health Issues and Inequities Among Immigrants, Refugees, and Forcibly Displaced Populations.
  We view Emerging Mental Health Issues as not only a matter of urgency and concern, but also a public health imperative. The cost (in all measures) of immediately tackling a population health threat is usually the lowest. We view the health of a minority as intertwined with the health of the majority or broader community.
• Empowering Communities: Public-Private Partnerships in Educating Black Women About PrEP
  
• Ending the HIV Epidemic 101 - Poster Presentation
  
• Ethics Section Poster session:
  
• Exploring Contributing Factors to Health Behaviors and Outcomes among Immigrant, Refugees and Forcibly Displaced Communities.
  
• Exploring the Intersection of LGBTQIA+ Identities, Disability, and Public Health
  This session will explore public health through a disability justice lens. The topics in this section should focus on the experiences of people who live at the intersection of disability and other marginalized identities (e.g., race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender identity, and sexual orientation).
• From Crisis to Stability: Addressing Homelessness Through Financial Support
  
• From Margins to Power: Human Rights Approaches to Inclusion and Political Advocacy
  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
• From Risk to Mortality: Understanding the Health Impacts of Homelessness and Substance Use
  
• Gaps in Care: Addressing Underutilization and Health Inequities Among People Experiencing Homelessness
  
• Global Health Financing and Practice
  Submissions in this category may cover a range of issues such as health financing trends, innovative financing mechanisms,, the development and distribution of the global health workforce, and the practical implementation of global health initiatives. Topics may also address the roles and influences of various stakeholders—such as governments, international organizations, private sector entities, and philanthropic foundations—in shaping global health agendas.
• Governance, Trade, Shocks, and Medicines: Understanding Systems to Understand Health
  
  • Analysis of the health effects of specific trade and investment agreements
  • Food systems and trade: nutrition transition, food and nutritional security, and food sovereignty
  • Occupational health of laborers in extractive commodity trade
  • Examining power dynamics in trade agreements
  • Access to medicines and intellectual property rights
• Health and Justice: Exploring the Full Spectrum of Carceral Care
  Ensuring access to evidence-based comprehensive health for incarcerated populations.
• Health in Conflict and Displacement
  Submissions in this category may cover health issues related to war, humanitarianism, armed conflict and related forced displacement (including refugees and internally displaced people).  IMPORTANT: We will only accept submissions only on displaced populations outside the US. For submissions on refugees and migrants inside the US, please refer to the Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health Call for Abstracts.
• Human Rights & Innovations and Solutions in Global and International Health
  Submissions in this category may cover global solutions addressing important cross-country health challenges or local innovations tackling local health challenges that are under-addressed in global health work. This category includes integrative, complementary, and traditional health practices and inter-professional collaboration in such practices and novel approaches to demonstrating their effectiveness. This category also includes digital health solutions and mHealth.
• 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.
• Imprisonment: Challenges, Reintegration, Education, and Policy through a Human Rights Lens
  
• Inclusion and Impact: Addressing Disability in Public Health
  
• Influence and Transparency: How Commercial Determinants Affect the Public's Health
  
  • The impact of commercial activity on health, human rights and the environment
  • Analysis of corporate strategies to market unhealthy products or lobby governments
  • Analysis of civil society and health advocacy efforts to counter and regulate corporate and commercial activity
• Intersectional approaches to health equity: Empowering women and gender-diverse communities through research and advocacy
  
• Intersections of Healthcare and Inequalities: Analyzing Pressing Issues through the Lens of Human Rights Framework and Creative Solutions.
  Healthcare is a human right, encompassing both necessary medical care and the underlying determinants of health. This session explores the interconnected factors of poverty, intergenerational trauma, violence, discrimination, addiction, isolation, and health disparities experienced by minorities and underserved communities. It examines these issues within the framework of human rights along with social determinants of health, emphasizing the critical role of holistic and palliative care services in addressing the rising rates of suicide in these populations. Untreated mental health challenges can have far-reaching consequences, contributing to homelessness, poverty, employment instability, safety concerns, and poor health outcomes. For instance, lack of access to mental health care can hinder the management of chronic conditions and increase the risk of substance use disorders.
• 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.
• Pathways to Health: Innovations in Refugee and Immigrant Health Research
  
• Political Engagement - Advocacy/Human Rights framework
  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.
• Poster: Family Violence Prevention Caucus Poster Session #1
  Family Violence Prevention/Intervention Program Development, Implementation, or Evaluation (from community to system levels approaches)
• Poster: Family Violence Prevention Caucus Poster Session #2
  Original call for abstracts name: Addressing Priority Populations & Equity in Intimate Partner & Family Violence: From Research to Practice
• Promoting Racial Equity in Public Health
  
• Public Health Code of Ethics: Assessing Ethical Challenges & Opportunities
  Abstracts that relate to using the APHA Public Health Code of Ethics for guiding ethical decision-making in research, policy, and practice to prioritize the public’s health. Submissions on this topic might elaborate on how to apply the Public Health Code of Ethics framework to a specific dilemma or decision. Additionally, they could showcase how the Code of Ethics can interact with materials such as case studies or the creative arts to contribute to core competencies of the public health workforce across disciplines, agencies, organizations, local communities and society more broadly. Alternatively, they might highlight perceived limitations of the Code, or proposed amendments/additions to the Code.
• Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Community Health II
  
• Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Community Health III
  
• Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Community Health IV
  
• Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Community Health VII
  
• ROUND TABLE: Prioritizing the Public's Health
  Challenges of public health in addressing social determinants of health that impact intersections between health and all other areas of human flourishing; challenges of addressing the complexity of intersectionality of social issues. Examples could include: climate change, environmental health, food systems, educational attainment, reproductive health, economic robustness, housing, transportation, culture, 'place,' and/or built environment.
• Racial Equity in Health
  Promoting policies and practices that address systemic racism and its impact on health outcomes. This includes ensuring equitable access to healthcare, addressing social determinants of health, and implementing community-driven solutions to reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities.
• Racial Equity in Health V
  
• Racial Equity in Health V
  
• Racial Equity in Health VI
  
• Reimagining maternal health equity: Systems, support, and structural determinants
  
• Reproductive Health
  Protecting access to reproductive health services and ensuring comprehensive reproductive health education.
• Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health
  Submissions in this category may cover a range of topics such as prenatal, obstetric, and postpartum care, as well as vaccination, nutrition, and other early childhood public health issues.
• Shaping Inclusion: The Role of Public Policy in Community Health Planning for Persons with Disabilities (A collaborative session with Disability section)
  
• Social Determinants of Health Among Immigrants, Refugees, and Forcibly Displaced Populations.
  We view Determinants of Health as the factors that shape health and well-being, encompassing the various aspects of life, including social (e.g., education, income, housing), behavioral (e.g., diet, lifestyle), environmental (e.g., water, air), and healthcare (e.g., access, quality).
• Suicide Prevention, Challenges, and Policies through the Human Rights Framework
  
• The Role of Community Engagement and Multidisciplinary Initiatives in Advancing Health of Immigrants, Refugees, and Forcibly Displaced Populations.
  
• The Role of Psychosocial Experiences in Health Equity Among Immigrants, Refugees, and Forcibly Displaced Populations
  We view immigrant psychosocial experiences as including a variety of factors related to overall health, such as quality of living (e.g., stress, lack of access, dietary challenges, etc.), mental health (e.g., depression, anxiety, adjustment disorders, etc.), and acculturation (e.g., short- and long-term health implications).
• Tools and Frameworks for Family Violence Intervention, Assessment, And Engagement
  Tools and Frameworks for Family Violence Intervention, Assessment, And Engagement
• Topics in Gun Violence, Fatality, and Sub-Cultural Factors of Family Violence
  Topics in Gun Violence, Fatality, and Sub-Cultural Factors of Family Violence
• Topics in Maternal Health
  
• Transforming Community Health: Spotlight on Public-Private Partnerships
  
• Violations of Human Rights: Analyzing Immigration Challenges in the United States and Around the World
  
• Violations of Human Rights: Analyzing Immigration Challenges in the United States and Around the World.
  This session will analyze the disparities and human rights violations of immigration policies within the United States and abroad its negative impacts in the areas of health, violence, inequalities, and more. The session invites studies that examine public health ethics, barriers to equitable healthcare for immigrants, human rights violations, allocation of public health resources, access to medical care, the needs and vulnerabilities of immigrants among other interconnections of this complex issue through the Human Right framework.
• Women, HIV, and Health Equity: Listening to the Voices Behind the Data (A collaborative session with HIV/AIDS)
  
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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