Since 1973, The Latino Caucus for Public Health's (LCPH) mission has been to represent and advocate for the health interests of the Latina/o/e/x community while providing leadership opportunities for students and young professionals to engage in research, policy, and advocacy. Since its establishment, LCPH members have successfully enacted high-impact public health efforts. These are represented in the accomplishments of past and current members who have sought to advance Latina/o/e/x health through accurate representation, collaboration, and career development.

The theme of the 2025 APHA Annual Meeting is Making the Public's Health a National Priority. Therefore, to honor LCPH’s impact on the health of Latina/o/e/x, we invite the submission of abstracts that cover innovative approaches, research, and strategies that focus on enhancing health outcomes, identifying health disparities and strategies to address them, promote collaboration among researchers, practitioners, and community members, and to build a more equitable public health system. The abstracts will be reviewed and the following topics are among the priority for LCPH’s 2025 program:

• Climate Change and Latino/e/x Health
  Includes, but not  limited to, disasters, impacts, mental health, resources, physical health, workplace safety, vulnerable populations, etc in relation to Latino/e/x health
• Health Communications and Latino/e/x Health
  Includes, but not  limited to, impacts of social media, digital health, different communication channels or venues, digital divide, etc. in relation to Latino/e/x health
• Health Disparities and Latino/e/x Health
  Includes, but not  limited to, chronic diseases, mental health, comorbidities, risk exposure, etc.
• Indigenous Health
  
• Political Determinants of Health
  Includes, but not  limited to, the impacts of policy, political violence, identity,  immigration in relation to Latino/e/x mental, emotional, and/or physical health
• Public Health Data and Latino/e/x Health
  Includes, but not  limited to, public Health Statistics, AI representation, qualitative methods, quantitative methods, mixed methods, data accuracy and representation, etc. in relation to Latino/e/x health
• Public health and Health Professional Workforce
  
• Social Determinants of Health
  Includes, but not limited to, housing, food, education climate change, access to care, social environment, education in relation to Latino/e/x health.

Abstracts should be 250 words or less

We encourage new and established scholars and practitioners to submit their abstracts. 

Please note that all abstracts are peer-reviewed and evaluated using the following criteria:

• Clarity of presentation: statement of problem, life stage, historical context, relevance, methods, results, and conclusions
• Quality and completeness of reported findings
• Originality and implications of findings to research, practice, and/or policy
• We will prioritize abstracts that align with the proposed topic areas above

***While we aim to place accepted abstracts into author’s desired sections we may ultimately move abstracts into different topic areas depending on overall content and organization of sessions.

1) Abstract must be free of trade and/or commercial product names.

2) Abstract must have at least one MEASURABLE objective (DO NOT USE "understand" or "to learn" as objectives as they are not measurable. Examples of acceptable measurable action words include: explain, demonstrate, analyze, formulate, discuss, compare, differentiate, describe, name, assess, evaluate, identify, design, define, or list).

3) You must sign the Conflict of Interest (Disclosure) form with a relevant Qualification Statement. See an example of an acceptable Qualification Statement on the online Disclosure form.

Attention public health students: The Latino Caucus promotes the advancement of students in public health. We strongly encourage students to submit their abstracts and to indicate their student status in the appropriate checkbox to be considered for the Outstanding Student Abstract, which we will recognize and present with a cash prize at the Latino Caucus Business Meeting.

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Program Planner Contact Information:

Mary Mitsdarffer, PhD, MPH
MitsdarfferM@gmail.com


and

Eduardo Cardiel, MPH
ecardi3@uic.edu


and

Nequiel Reyes, MPH
nxr780@miami.edu


and

Jeannie Concha, PhD MPH
jeannie@utep.edu