The PHN Section welcomes LATE BREAKING abstracts.  

While underfunding and invisibility are chronic problems in public health, the current historical moment poses a different level of threat to the ideas, programs, and workforce of public health.  Beyond the attacks on public health directly, we are also seeing the disparagement and dismantling of federal support for social services, education, diversity, and even basic research.  What should public health nurses do in times like these? What are we doing?

We invite research abstracts that examine these questions in thoughtful and innovative ways. We are particularly interested in research that evaluates public health nursing practice in any of the following domains:

PHNs as Witnesses and Partners: Nurses are embedded in communities and are likely to be among the first to see the effects of these policy changes. Whether in the form of data or stories, can we bring the news of suffering and resistance to the wider world? Can we develop new ways to collaborate with communities impacted by these changes to promote health and social justice?

 PHNs as Policy Advocates and Organizers: How are PHNs involved in community organizing and policy-level advocacy?  This is historically complicated for many in public health, since as public employees there may be restrictions on what we can do. However, we cannot remain silent in times like these. How then do we speak and act?

PHNs as researchers: Research funding at the federal level is being dramatically reduced, and the new priorities and mechanisms are unknown. What are researchers at various levels doing to cope with this uncertainty? Are there ways of doing research that don’t require such heavy investments from NIH? Are there alternative models of science that are a better fit for this new and frankly politicized environment?

We encourage abstracts that will promote lively and engaged conversations on these important questions.

• PHNs as Policy Advocates and Organizers
  
• PHNs as Researchers
  
• PHNs as Witnesses and Partners:
  

For more information about this late breaking call for abstracts, contact:

Stephen M. Padgett, RN, PhD (research chair)

Assistant Professor, School of Nursing

California State University, Fullerton

stpadgett@fullerton.edu

Abstract Format

Limit abstracts to 250 words, using one of three formats (unstructured abstracts are not accepted):

1. Research:

• Background
• Methods
• Results
• Conclusions

2. Lessons-learned:

• Background/ Issue
• Description
• Lessons Learned
• Implications/recommendations

3. Narrative:

• Statement of the problem
• Approach
• Product/outcome
• Implications

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Program Planner Contact Information:

Pamela Jones, PhD, MPH, RN
prjones1@gmail.com