CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — APHA 2025 Annual Meeting and Expo
One Health
Meeting theme: "Making the Public’s Health a National Priority"
Submission Deadline: Friday, March 28, 2025
One Health is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach - working at the local, regional, national, and global levels - with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment.
We will consider abstracts related to One Health issues. These include but are not limited to: animal-human-ecosystem interactions, zoonoses and vector-borne diseases, food safety, antimicrobial resistance, waste management, agriculture and animal husbandry, ecosystem health, plant health, climate change, integrative and traditional health practices, the human-animal bond, service animals and working animals, access to veterinary care, social determinants of health related to human-animal-environmental factors, One Health in conflicts and disasters (natural and manmade), and other topics related to Veterinary Public Health and Planetary Health. This year's theme, "Making the Public’s Health a National Priority," offers an opportunity to highlight the ways that human-animal-environment interactions are integral to the health of all species and systems.
Abstracts should be limited to 300 words and should include the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, and Implications. You do not need to include these words within your abstract. The description of these sections below is intended as a rough guide:
Introduction: This should include the purpose of the work/research and a brief but precise statement of key background information, such as a description of the problems or issues that the work/research seeks to address.
Methods: This section should describe what you did. Here, describe the methods and design of the work or research.
Results: This section should describe what you found. This is the main outcomes of the work, or the main findings of the research.
Implications: This section should describe what your findings mean. Here, briefly state the implications of your work/research.
Accepted abstracts will be grouped into Poster Sessions and Oral Sessions. If you have a preference, you will be able to specify this when you submit your abstract through APHA's Confex system. Please note that while we will try to honor preferences, we have limited space, particularly for Oral presentations.
The One Health program will consist of:
at least two Poster Sessions, each consisting of up to ten posters presented in-person
three or four 90-minute Oral Sessions, each consisting of four 15-20 minute oral presentations presented in-person
Session topics will be finalized after all abstracts have been reviewed to allow for organic groupings. Potential sessions could include but are not limited to the following examples:
One Health Approaches to Emerging and Re-Emerging Health Issues Potential topics include: antibiotic resistance in animal, human, plant, and ecosystem health; waste management; zoonoses and vector-borne diseases; surveillance methods for human/animal/plant/ecosystem health; using animals and the environment as sentinels for emerging diseases, reemerging diseases, and effects of climate change; One Health in the context of conflicts (e.g. armed conflict, conflicts borne of systems of oppression, etc.) and natural and man-made disasters (e.g. hurricanes, drought, oil spills, etc.).
One Health in Policies, Systems, and Environments Potential topics include: how policies, systems, and environment affect the health of animals, plants, humans, and ecosystems; animal-plant-human-ecosystem interactions; access to resources for animal, plant, and ecosystem health; globalization and One Health; One Health and the economy; One Health and systems of oppression such as racism, classism, ageism, and other systems of oppression; One Health law; science communication and One Health; community-level approaches to One Health.
One Health includes Plants, Animals, Humans, and Ecosystems Potential topics include: effects of human activity on plant, animal, human, and ecosystem health and vice versa; effects of climate change on plant, animal, human, and ecosystem health and vice versa; the use of plants and animals in human health practices; chronic and communicable diseases in fields where humans interact with plants, animals, and ecosystems, such as agriculture and food production, animal husbandry, forestry, pest control, fishing, etc., and workers’ rights and the effects of policies in those fields; disability and One Health, including but not limited to service animals; access to nature and natural spaces.
Submitted abstracts may also be appropriate for planned co-sessions with other APHA Sections and Caucuses (including but not limited to: International Health; Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Injury Control and Preventative Health Services; Integrative, Complementary and Traditional Health Practices; Occupational Health and Safety; Ethics; the Peace Caucus; and more). One Health is inherently interdisciplinary!
