The American Public Health Association Committee on Health Equity (CHEQ) invites the submission of abstracts for presentation at the APHA Annual Meeting. CHEQ highlights research, policy, and practice-based work that advances health equity using cross-cutting, structural, and systems-level approaches applicable across public health domains.

CHEQ’s mission is to advance equity in public health by elevating rigorous scholarship and applied work that address structural barriers and inform accountability, measurement, implementation, and policy related to health equity. We welcome submissions from academic researchers, public health practitioners, students, and community partners.

Abstracts should address one of the following topics:

• Community engagement and shared decision-making
  This topic focuses on approaches to community engagement and shared decision-making in public health, including participatory processes, governance models, lived experience as expertise, and strategies to meaningfully incorporate community input within institutional and policy constraints.
• Health equity accountability and governance in public health systems
  This topic focuses on institutional accountability and governance mechanisms that advance health equity, including standards, oversight processes, monitoring systems, reporting requirements, and decision-making structures within public health organizations and systems.
• Implementation science approaches to advancing health equity
  This topic invites original research and practice-based evaluations using implementation science to examine how equity-focused interventions, policies, or practices are adopted, implemented, adapted, and sustained in real-world public health settings.
• Measuring health equity and structural conditions
  This topic emphasizes practical approaches to measuring health equity and structural conditions, including equity indicators, data limitations, misclassification, ethical data use, and methods for assessing social and structural drivers across public health contexts.
• Policies and health equity
  This topic invites original research and practice-based analyses examining the relationship between public health policies and health equity, including policy design, implementation, evaluation, and equity-related impacts across public health systems and settings.

Please note:

1. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words.

2. You do not need to be a member to submit; however, if your abstract is accepted, presenters must become a member of APHA.

3. All presenters must register for the meeting.

4. Research poster abstracts must contain the following sections: Background/introduction, methods, results, and conclusion.

*Please note that only poster presentations are available as an option.

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Program Planner Contact Information:

Deborah Smith, PhD, MPH, BSN
deborah.smith@lsuhs.edu