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Academic and Practice Linkages in Public Health Caucus Call for Abstracts
Beyond the Clinic: A CBPR Framework Linking Academic Research to Community-Led Youth Behavioral Health Practice
Building policy competence in the public health workforce at a critical moment: A new approach to embedding policy knowledge, skill, and leadership development in public health curricula
Collaborative Capacity Building: Shared Public Health Resources and Solutions
Innovating the Future Public Health Ecosystem: Transformative Academic-Practice Partnerships
Leading Public Health Through Change: Academic-Practice Strategies for Resilience
Leveraging multi-modal collaboration to expand public health capacity for dementia
Linking Knowledge to Action: Public Health Responsiveness in Real Time
Moving from Metrics to Meaning: An Applied Scholarship Model for Faculty Appointment, Tenure and Promotion
Research to Practice: Exploring Academic–Practice Partnerships in Kentucky
Strengthening Public Health Narrative and Trust: Evidence-Based Messaging Across Sectors
Sustaining the Public Health Workforce: Wellbeing, Knowledge Transfer, and Retention
We have the technology: Advancing public health by increasing accessibility and utility of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data
Aging & Public Health Call for Abstracts
Advance Care Planning, Palliative Care, and End-of-Life Issues
Ageism and the Health of Older Adults
Aging Across the Lifespan
Biological Determinants of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias and Cognition Function
Caregiving Across Different Contexts and Settings
Emerging Research, Practice, and Policy Issues in Elder Abuse and Safety
Income Inequality and Health of Older Adults
Innovations in Housing and Transportation for Enhanced Aging In Place
Medical Care, Risk Screening, Management and Treatment
Meeting people where they live, work, pray, learn, and scroll: Approaches to improving advance care planning outreach in communities
Minority Health and Health Disparities Related to Intersectionality
Public Health Innovations for Older Adults Living in Rural Areas
Publishing aging research: Meet scientific journal editors in public health, health care, and health policy
Recognizing early capacity: designing public health systems for cognitive vulnerability before crisis
Sleep Health and Healthy Aging: Epidemiology, Clinical Interventions, Telehealth Innovation, and Health System Transformation in Older Adults
Strategies to Improve Social Isolation and Loneliness Among Older Adults
Structural Racism, Health Equity, and Aging
Technology, Communication, and Aging
Together we thrive: Multisector approaches to advance the age-friendly ecosystem
Together we thrive: Multisector approaches to advancing the age-friendly ecosystem
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Understanding Aging and Older Workers
Understanding Duration of Support Service Use Among Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia and Stroke: Implications for Public Health and Aging Policy
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Call for Abstracts
Calling out the Tobacco Industry’s targeting of the Black Community and other Communities of Color.
Chair Invited Session
Chair Invited Session 2
Chair Invited Session 3
Epidemiology
From Smart Tech to Squonking - helping young people quit vaping in a changing nicotine marketplace
Harm Reduction
Integrated Behavioral Health
New research and implications for policy and practice from the Opioid Industry Documents Archive
Outstanding Student Work Award
Policy
Prevention
Prevention as Preparation for Healthy Lives: Scaling and expanding effective adolescent substance use education, screening, and intervention
Psychedelics
Treatment and Recovery
Using opioid settlement funds to support effective primary substance use prevention
American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus Call for Abstracts
Defining Holistic Health and Wellness Approaches for Our People
Our People, Our Stories: Public Health in Action
Reclaiming Indigenous Food Systems for Community Health and Wellness
Resilience and Resistance: Overcoming Health Disparities in Indigenous Communities
Stronger Together: Rebuilding Trust through Collaborations and Coordination
APHA Committee on Womens Rights Call for Abstracts
Economic Inequality
Economic InequalityAddressing the gender pay gap, access to fair employment opportunities, and economic security, including policies that promote paid family leave, childcare support, and job training programs tailored for women.
Gender Equity in Healthcare
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Other topics related to women’s rights
Reproductive Rights and Access to Healthcare
Violence Against Women
APHA Public Health Film Festival Call for Abstracts
Addiction and Recovery
Aging and Health Across the Lifecourse
Basic Needs: Food, Water, and Air
Chronic Diseases and Infectious Diseases
Community Engagement and Advocacy
Emergencies: Preparation, Response, and Resilience
Environmental Health and Sustainability
Other Topics
Poverty and Health: Equity and Access to Public Health Resources
Special Populations (Women, Men, Children & Adolescents, Homeless, Minority, LGBTQ, Immigrant, Disabled, Elderly)
Technology and Digital Health
APHA Student Assembly Call for Abstracts
Beyond Attendance: Practical Training to Strengthen Public Health Students’ Conference Engagement and Scholarly Output
Disability
Environmental/Occupational Health
Epidemiology/Biostatistics
Food and Nutrition
Health Education
Health Services Administration/Management
International/Global Health
Maternal/Child Health
Mental Health and Treatment
Public Health Law and Policy
Sexual/Reproductive Health
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Student Training and Public Health Workforce Development
Applied Public Health Statistics Call for Abstracts
Advances in Public Health Statistics and Data Analytics
Applications of spatiotemporal models in public health
From Independence to Feedback: A Staged Framework for Modeling Dependence in Longitudinal Data — Integrating AI-Assisted Simulation and Pedagogical Tools
General topics in applied public health statistics (oral)
Innovative methods for teaching and communicating health statistics and data science
Randomized clinical and community trials and quasi experimental studies
Small area and small domain estimations in public health surveillance, planning and evaluation
Spiegelman Awardee Invited Session: AI and data science in population health: present and future
Statistical methods for health informatics and health IT studies
Statistical methods in health services and policy research
Student paper competitions
Asian & Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health Call for Abstracts
From Migration to Belonging: Navigating Immigration, Acculturation, and Policy
Generational Health: Bridging Traditional and Modern Knowledge to Advance Intergenerational Well-Being
Making Our Communities Visible: Data Equity for API Health
Mental Health: Roots, Resilience, and Healing
Other Topics
Social Determinants of Health: Building Thriving Communities
Black Caucus of Health Workers Call for Abstracts
"You're Going to Ruin His Life": An Analysis of the Cultural Enablement of Violence Against Black Women in America
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African American Men's Health
African American Women's Health
Behavioral Health Interventions, Including Those Addressing Mental Health, Violence Prevention, and Substance Misuse
Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Among African Americans
Effects of Racism, Colonialism, and White Supremacy on the Health Status of African Americans
Environmental Health and Justice.
Faith and Spirituality
Freedom Beyond the Illusion: A Covenantal Framework for Addressing Structural Inequities Across the African Diaspora
Global Health
Maternal, Adolescent, Child, and Family Health
Melanin Matters: Bridging the Gap in Dermatological Care
Reproductive Rights and Health
Workforce Development, Academic Programming/Preparation, and Pipeline Programs
Breastfeeding Call for Abstracts
Supporting breastfeeding and lactation among families experiencing health related social needs
The community has the answers: Supporting breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and human milk feeding in communities that have been historically and purposively marginalized
Cancer Call for Abstracts
Cancer Prevention among Latino Populations: Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies Across the Life Course
Cancer Risk across the Life Course-Insights from Epidemiologic Research
How to Build Bridges Across Effective Programs for Latina Cancer Prevention: A Human-Centered and Developmental Evaluation Approach
Interventions or Policy Strategies to Inform Early-Onset (Young Adult) Cancer Prevention Across the Lifespan
Other Cancer-Related Topics
The Role of Social Determinants of Health Across the Lifespan and Cancer-Related Outcomes
Women’s Health Across the Lifespan and Cancer Prevention or Survivorship
Caucus on Homelessness Call for Abstracts
COH Poster Session****
Criminal Justice Systems
Disability Justice and Ableism
Educational Access and Imbalance
Elderly Homelessness and Dying with Dignity
Gender and Sexual Orientation
Medical Respite for People Experiencing Homelessness
Other: Proposals That May Not Align with the Above Topics
Race and Ethnicity Equity
Variance of Mental Health and its Impact on the Experience of Homelessness
Youth Homelessness
Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community Call for Abstracts
Religion as a Social Determinant of Health Across the Lifespan: Measures, Mechanisms, and Meaning
Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health Call for Abstracts
Community Engagement to Foster Trust and Participation in Multidisciplinary Initiatives to Advance Health Equity for Immigrants, Refugees, and Forcibly Displaced Populations
Emerging Health Inequities Among Immigrants, Refugees, and Forcibly Displaced Populations
Forced Displacement and Transnationalism a Social Determinant of Health Inequities Among Immigrants, Refugees, and Forcibly Displaced Populations
The Impact of Psychosocial Factors on Health Equity for Immigrants, Refugees, and Forcibly Displaced Groups
Chiropractic Health Care Call for Abstracts
Together We Thrive: Health Across the Lifespan - Health Policy and Education
Community Based Public Health Caucus Call for Abstracts
A Community-Based Intervention to Enhance Subjective Well-Being in Older Adults
Benefits of Seniors and Young Children Spending Time Together
Children in Foster Care and the Development of Favorable Outcomes
Fostering resilience through nature engagement
Health and Wellness Across the Life Span
Investing in the Health and Well-Being of Young Adults
Preparing the Younger Generation for an Aging Society: Strategies, Challenges, and Opportunities
Promoting Wellbeing in Child Welfare: Prioritizing Relational Permanency, Normally and Competency
Community Health Planning and Policy Development Call for Abstracts
Addressing Social Determinants
Advancing Community-led Research Partnerships: Authentic Engagement and Measurable Impact
Advocacy and Community Engagement Strategies for Public Health Impact
Community-Based Intervention Models
Evidence -Based Decision Making: Translating Data into Effective Health Policy
Innovative Policy Approaches to Complex Public Health Challenges
Justice-Centered Health Equity in Carceral Systems
Leveraging AI to Help Improve Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Measuring Success: Evaluation Frameworks for Community Health Initiatives
Other Topics in Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Overcoming Barriers to Equity: Practical Solutions for Health Policy Implementation
Strategic Philanthropy: Catalyzing Sustainable Public Health Initiatives
Community Health Workers Call for Abstracts
Building cross-sector partnerships to address water quality and health in South Texas colonias
CHW Professional Support and Workforce Advocacy
CHW Supervision Skills Development, Including Opportunities for CHWs to Supervise
CHW Workforce Development Policy, Research, & Evaluation
CHWs Addressing Chronic Diseases
CHWs Advancing Health Equity and Racial Justice Across the Lifespan
Community Collective Storytelling through Community Experts: An Empowerment Evaluation Model for Building Evaluation Literacy among San Antonio Metro Health Community Health Workers
Emerging Models to Promote Sustainable CHW Funding
Implementing Team-Based Behavioral Health Integration and Community Health Workers in Pediatric Primary Care
Innovative CHW Core Competency Education and Training
Innovative Models of CHW Team Integration (clinical and/or community)
Joint Session: CHWs in Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Moving towards sustainable policy and financing: strategies and tools in MN
Roots to Responsibility: Developing Community Expertise and Preparing Community Health Workers to Lead
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Using short term funding for long term transformation: Minnesota's progress toward sustainability
Utilizing the Surgeon General’s Framework to Improve Workplace Wellbeing for Unlicensed Healthcare Professionals
Disability Call for Abstracts
Advancing Disability-Competent Healthcare Education
Approaching Public Health through a Disability Justice Lens
Disability Rights in an Evolving Public Health Landscape: Advancing Health Equity Through Law and Policy
Emerging Public Health Issues Affecting People with Disabilities
Health Promotion for People with Disabilities across the Lifespan
Promoting Environmental Justice for People with Disabilities
Promoting Physical Activity Opportunities for People with Disabilities (Collaborative Session with Physical Activity)
Sexual Health and Reproductive Justice for People with Disabilities
Surveillance and Data
Early-Career Professional Call for Abstracts
Any innovative program, best practice, lesson learned, research, partnership, training, or emerging approach that addresses public health challenges across workplaces, communities, or populations.
Broadly researched programs by ECPS at their worksite
Role of AI and other latest technologies in public health – topics related to AI or latest technologies being used
Environment Call for Abstracts
Air, Water, Land, Climate, and Health
Assessing Cognitive Processing and Disaster Information Retention Among College Students.
Beauty Justice and the Demand for Safer Hair Care Products, Practices, and Protections for Communities of Color
Building Healthy and Resilient Communities
Children's Environmental Health (organized jointly with the Maternal and Child Health section)
Climate-Driven Environmental Hazards: Learning from the Past to Protect Public Health in an Uncertain Future
Community-engaged environmental risk assessment and outreach: Addressing multi-source exposures in vulnerable Texas communities
Cross-Disciplinary Partnership to Advance Community Priorities, Local Policies, and Research on Nature-Based Solutions through the UIC Center for Extreme Conditions and Health Excellence (CECHE)
Drinking water security, food security, and social equity in our changing environment
Emerging Fields in Environmental Health
Environmental Epidemiology
Environmental Health Policy and Practice
Environmental Justice and Health Equity
Food and the Environment (organized jointly with the Food and Nutrition section)
Persisting in the Face of Adversity
Physical Activity and Environment (organized jointly with the Physical Activity section)
Plastics, Chemicals, and Health
Promoting Public Health Across the Lifespan: Applications of NASEM's State of the Science and the Future of Cumulative Impact Assessment Report (2025) on the EPA's Cumulative Impacts Framework for cumulative impact assessment across diverse policy and practice contexts.
Promoting public health across the lifespan: Applications of NASEM's State of the Science and the Future of Cumulative Impacts Report (2025) on EPA's Cumulative Impacts Framework across diverse policy and practice contexts
Protecting children before, during, and after wildfires: Recommendations from a children's environmental health research and translation consortium
Protecting Children’s Health in All Stages of Life: Exposomics Framework
Epidemiology Call for Abstracts
2026 Meeting Theme: Together We Thrive - Health Across the Lifespan
Chronic (Non-Communicable) Disease Epidemiology
Clinical Epidemiology
Communicable and Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Environmental and Climate Epidemiology
Epidemiology in Law and Policy
Epidemiology Methods and Data Science
Epidemiology of Health-Related Behaviors
Epidemiology of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
Implementation Science and Translational Epidemiology
Injury Epidemiology
Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology
Nutritional Epidemiology
OTHER Topics in Epidemiology
Social Epidemiology
Spatial Epidemiology
Student Abstract Awards
Ethics Call for Abstracts
Engaging with Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Practice and Research
Healthcare without limits, Compassion without borders: A community centered approach to reaching underserved rural populations
Humans and Other Animals: The Urgency for a Paradigm Shift in Public Health
Other Topics Related to Public Health Ethics
Pediatric Boarding as a Public Health Ethics Crisis: Insights from Social Media Discourse
Prioritizing Public Health using the APHA Code of Public Health Ethics
Prioritizing the Public’s Health By Addressing Intersectionality of Social Determinants of Health
Prioritizing the Public’s Health By Addressing the Vulnerabilities of Minoritized Populations:
Prioritizing the Public’s Health through Community Engagement and Building Responsive Partnerships
Prioritizing the Public’s Health through Transparent Public Deliberation, Accountability, Data Privacy and Protection
Promoting global equity and inclusivity: Examing health determinants, outcomes, and systems across the world
Reconstructing Public Health Ethics After COVID-19: The RESTORE-PH Framework for Community Resilience and Relational Trust
Social and Historical Lessons
Student-Led Session: Innovating with the Public Health Code of Ethics: Applied Decision-Making to Current Public Health Issues
Family Violence Prevention Caucus Call for Abstracts
Intimate Partner & Family Violence, Community Violence, and Firearms
Other Topics in Intimate Partner Violence, Child Maltreatment, & Family Violence
Food and Nutrition Call for Abstracts
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Communication and Media for Food and Nutrition Research and Practice
Dollar Stores as Food Retailers: Perspectives from Policies, Stores, and Consumers
Engaging Communities in Food and Nutrition
Engaging communities in food justice efforts in New Mexico
Food Is Medicine: Fueling Health and Fighting Inequity
Food Safety Practices
From Promise to Practice: Building the National Infrastructure for Food Is Medicine
GusNIP Produce Prescription Programs and Healthcare Utilization Outcomes: Implementation and Impact
How risky is your dinner? foodborne illness as a growing public health challenge
Indigenous Food Systems and Nutrition
Innovative Models for Whole-of-Systems Approaches to Obesity Prevention Research: The NCI Obesity Supplement Grantee Learning Network
Intersection of Food, Nutrition, Climate, and the Environment
Maternal & Child Health in Food & Nutrition
Mixed Methods Findings from the Repeat-Cross-sectional Evaluation of the Statewide Expansion of the Double Up Food Bucks Program in Texas
National and International Programs, Recommendations, and Policy
Nutritional Epidemiology, Measurement, and Technology
Policies, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) Change Approaches to Improving Nutrition and Food Systems
Social, Cultural, and Political Factors Affecting Food and Nutrition
State and Local Programs, Recommendations, and Policy
Foot and Ankle Health Call for Abstracts
All foot/ankle public health related topics
All foot/ankle public policy related topics
Topics pertaining to foot/ankle epidemiology in the US and abroad
Genomics Forum Call for Abstracts
Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genomics
Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology/Gene-Environment Epidemiology
Health Communications in Genomics
Health Disparities in Genomics
Other Topics and Issues
Research and Practice Challenges and Opportunities
Health Administration Call for Abstracts
Addressing Adversity in Today’s Public Health System, a Federal Perspective
Advancing Public Health Outcomes through Policy Change across Sectors
Early Lessons from CMS’s Rural Health Transformation Program: Strategies to Strengthen Rural Health Systems
Financial Considerations for Public Health Administrators
Fostering Health Equity through Health Administration
From Strategy to Execution: Data‑Driven Workforce Planning and Gap Mitigation in Health Administration
Health Services Research in Health Administration
Improving Quality in Health Services: Programs, Policies, and Evaluation
Intersectoral Partnerships and Workforce Research for Improving Healthcare Services, Delivery, and Outcomes
Leadership in Health Administration: Advancing Health Across the Lifespan
PHIG Hub Draft
Public Health Finance in Health Administration
Public health institute role in capacity building for PHIG funded health departments
Raising the Bar—Not the Burden: What’s New in PHAB’s 2026 Accreditation Standards
Special Topics and Perspectives on Health Administration
The Convergence of Public Health Policy and Administration
The Impact of PHIG on Health Administration
Workforce Management and Development in Health Administration
Health Informatics Information Technology Call for Abstracts
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Data Governance, Ethics, and Policy for AI in Public Health
Equity-Centered AI and Geospatial (GIS) Public Health Informatics
Large Language Models (LLMs) in Public Health Informatics
Patient-Generated and Remote Monitoring Data for Public Health to ensure Trust
Robotics in Caregiving and Longterm Support Services, Informatics Integration, Ethics and Workforce Implications
Telehealth Informatics for Population and Public Health Impact
HIV/AIDS Call for Abstracts
HIV and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
HIV and Climate Change
HIV and Pregnancy
HIV and the Social Context
HIV Basic Science
HIV Care Continuum
HIV Community Engaged Practice and Research
HIV Digital Health Strategies
HIV Implementation Science Research
HIV Prevention and Care in International Settings
HIV Prevention Research
HIV, Cancer, & Other Comorbidities
HIV-Related Policy
HIV/AIDS and Aging Across the Lifespan
Human Rights Forum Call for Abstracts
Analyzing Artificial Intelligence through the Human Rights Lens
Approaches to political inclusion, civic participation, and community empowerment through the human rights framework
Education as a human right
Females within the Correctional System in the United States
Health and vulnerable populations
Hidden risks, unequal care: Advancing human rights for Black women’s health
Immigration–Current Crisis, Challenges and Vulnerabilities
The junction of Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation and the Carceral System–Challenges and Needs.
Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Call for Abstracts
An Introduction and Key Examples of Applied Forensic Epidemiology: The Utility of Medical Examiner/Coroner’s Data in a Public Health Context
Disaster Response and Emergency Preparedness
Emergency Medical Services
Firearm Violence
Implementing Emergency Preparedness Best Practices Across Multiple Jurisdictions for Large-Scale International Sporting Events: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation
Injury and Emergency Health Services Data
Leveraging the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) to understand and prevent sexual and gender minority suicide mortality
Motor Vehicle Crashes and Traffic Safety
Opioids and Other Drugs
Other Topics Related to Injury Control and Emergency Health Services
Pandemic Preparedness and Response
Recreational and Sports Injuries
Suicide Prevention
Violence Prevention and Control
Integrative, Complementary and Traditional Health Practices Call for Abstracts
Advocacy, Policy, and Health Equity in ICTHP
Increasing Scientific Rigor and Evidence-Based Practices in ICTHP
Innovations in Integrative, Complementary, and Traditional Health Interventions
Promoting Evidence-Based Traditional and Indigenous Health Practices
Utilizing ICTHP in Clinical and Public Health Practice
Workforce Development, Certification, and Professionalization in ICTHP
International Health Call for Abstracts
A School Health Training Program gives educators tools to strengthen their schools’ capacity to promote health, provide basic services, improve school attendance, and increase health literacy among students and families.
Climate Change and Global Health
Community-Based Primary Health Care
Current and Emerging Challenges in Infectious Diseases
Determinants of Health
Disparities and Inequities in Global Health
From Power Asymmetry to Partnerships in Global Health
Global Health Financing and Practice
Harnessing Innovation and Technology for Global Health
Health Systems Strengthening and Service Delivery in Global Settings
Health, Human Rights, and Ethics in Conflict and Displacement
Implementation Science in Global Health
Justice-Centered Reproductive and Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health
Mental Health
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
Pain, perception, and practice: A cross-sectional survey of epidural analgesia barriers among patients and providers in Ghana
The Wrong Problem: How Misaligned Assumptions Limit Access to Labor Pain Relief
Three Decades of Eye Injury Burden in the GCC: Incidence, Disability Trends, and Cause-Specific Patterns from the GBD 2023 Study
Using Random Forest, Support Vector Machines XGBoost, Convolutional Neural Networks and Sentinel2 RGB Signatures to Identify HighRisk West Nile Virus Riverbank Areas in Lazio, Italy.
Latino Caucus Call for Abstracts
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Administrative Systems
Cancer Prevention among Latino Populations
Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health
Latino Child and Adolescent Health
Latino Health Disparities
Latino/a/e LGBTQ+ Health
Occupational Health and Heat Exposure
Positive and Protective Factors That Promote Health among Latinos
Law Call for Abstracts
(Conference Theme) Together We Thrive: Health Across the Lifespan
Addressing Factors Associated with Chronic Disease
Behavioral and Mental Health and Substance Use
Environmental Health and Justice
Health Care
Improving the Public’s Health by Teaching Public Health Law: A New Imperative for Graduate Education
Improving the Transparency of Legal Research in Scientific Studies: Results of an Collaborative Effort to Develop an EQUATOR Reporting Standard
Infectious Disease, Legal Preparedness and Response, Public Health Emergencies
Injury Prevention
International Law and Legal Developments
Jurisprudence, Legal Theory and Litigation
Other Law-Related Abstracts
LGBTQ Health Caucus Call for Abstracts
Black, Indigenous, Asian, and other LGBTQ+ people of color
Health of LGBTQ+ older adults
Hispanic and Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ health
Interpersonal and structural violence among LGBTQ+ populations
LGBTQ+ adolescent and young adult health
Public policies and laws shaping LGBTQ+ health
Social determinants of LGBTQ+ health (e.g., housing, food, and financial insecurity)
Transgender and gender diverse people’s health
Maternal and Child Health Call for Abstracts
Adolescent & Young Adult Health
Childcare
Children with Special Health Care Needs
Data & Epidemiology
Global MCH
Greg Alexander Student Session
Health Services Research
Improving Pregnancy Outcomes
Infant & Child Health
Innovations in Maternity Services
Multi-level Determinants of MCH Across the Life Course
Paternal Involvement in MCH
Perinatal & Women's Health
Violence Prevention
Medical Care Section Call for Abstracts
2026 Special Topic: Large-Scale Health System Transformation - Vertical and horizontal consolidation, private equity acquisitions, regionalization, and other transformations are redefining health systems across the nation
Gender and racial disparities in employer-sponsored and public health insurance coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic: A nationally representative intersectional analysis
Health Economics & Health Services Research
Health Equity
Incarceration as a Determinant of Health in Midlife: New Data From the Northwestern Juvenile Project
Justice & Incarcerated Health
Organizing with healthcare workers for health and immigration justice: Toward a conceptual model for social medicine praxis
Quality Improvement
Rural & Frontier Health
Student Paper Awards
Men's Health Caucus Call for Abstracts
Best Practices for Community-Engaged Collaborations to Address Boys' and Men’s Health
Chronic Health Issues Experienced by Men and Boys
Fatherhood Programs and Initiatives
Global Programming to Address Boys' and Men’s Health (international, regional, rural health, etc.)
Health Care for Men and Boys: Programs, Communication, Engagement, and Equity
Health of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Men and Boys
Health Policy that Impacts Men and Boys: Law, Legislative Action, and Advocacy
Healthcare Delivery and Healthcare Practices Related to Boys and Men’s Health
Infectious Diseases among Men and Boys: Covid-19, STIs, and STDs
Injuries among Men and Boys: Unintentional, Self-Directed, and Violence
Intersectional Issues/Determinants of Health Related to Men and Boys: Age, Race, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Occupation, and Relationships
Intersectionality between Sports and Male Health
Media and Men’s Health: Utilizing Social, Print, Commercial, and other Technology Modalities to Reach Men and Boys
Mental Health and Behavioral Health in Men and Boys: Substance Use and Abuse, Depression, Anxiety and Other Diagnoses, and Online Radicalization
Other Topics in Men’s and Boys’ Health
Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes and Address Health Equity for Men and Boys (e.g., SDOH, non-communicable diseases, infectious disease, sexual wellness, etc.)
Understanding Masculinity through Gender Identity, Gender Expression, Gender Norms, Sexual Orientation, Body Image, and their Relationship to Boys and Men’s Health
Mental Health Call for Abstracts
Behavioral Health Workforce Development
Bridging Evidence and Practice: Prevention Research Center Approaches to Addressing Social Isolation and Loneliness Across Diverse Community Contexts
Bridging Systems, Healing Families: A Cross-System Approach to Violence Intervention Services
Building Implementation Capacity in the CHW Mental Health Workforce: Training, Fidelity, and Skill Development to Support Community Interventions
Climate Change and Mental Health
Community Support, Social Connection, and Mental Health
EFFECTS OF COPING STRATEGIES ON ACCULTURATION-BASED CONFLICT AND MENTAL HEALTH SYMPTOMS AMONG ASIAN AMERICAN YOUTHS
EMBRACING OUR SCARS: A RADICAL APPROACH TO SELF-HARM THROUGH LIVED AND UNSPOKEN EXPERIENCES
Examining gambling-related harms from a public health lens with a focus on mental health in emerging adults.
Faith Communities as Public Health Partners in Suicide Prevention
Families and Children Across the Lifespan
Global Mental Health
Mental Health and Substance Use
Mental Health of American Indian and Alaska Native Boys and Men
Mental Health Policy and Services
Social Determinants of Mental Health
Stigma, Discrimination, and Trauma
Strengthening Tribal Behavioral Health Systems: A Tribal Epidemiology Center’s Integrated Approach to Post-COVID Recovery
Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Crisis Response
Technology and Mental Health
Trust before treatment: Peer-led, low-barrier community support to improve engagement among people who use drugs
Occupational Health and Safety Call for Abstracts
Advancing Worker Wellbeing Through Occupational Safety: Challenges, Strategies and Emerging Approaches
Aging workers (proposed collaboration with the Aging Section)
Assessments and interventions addressing linkages among workers, animals, wildlife, and the environment (in collaboration with the One Health Section)
Association of long COVID with incident multimorbidity and health outcomes in U.S. adults
Climate change impacts on workers; Heat protection for all workers (e.g., state or federal campaigns; workplace programs)
Community building for decent work and a just world; Role of unions, worker centers and activists; voices of injured/ill workers
Dual impact of puncture and stretch on glove barrier performance under liquid and nanoparticle challenges
Education & training; Policy development; Advocacy campaigns for work-related injury and illness prevention
Implications of new technology on work-related injuries and illnesses
Mental health at the workplace (e.g., psychosocial hazards and organizational responsibility); work-related stress, recovery-friendly workplaces; and employment factors and suicide risk
Other topics in occupational health and safety
Poster competition for students and recent graduates
Safety and health programs for "hard-to-reach workers" due to economic, racial, language or other barriers (proposed collaboration with the Latino Caucus)
Transforming unhealthy work into healthy work through participatory research, capacity-building, multidirectional engagement and communication, and consciousness-raising
One Health Call for Abstracts
AI-supported One Health surveillance: Integrating machine learning, local data, and community voice for pandemic preparedness
Invisible Threat, Shared Response: Confronting Antimicrobial Resistance Through One Health Action
One Health Approaches to Emerging and Re-Emerging Health Issues
One Health in Policies, Systems, and Environments
One Health: Plants, Animals, Humans, and Ecosystems
Public Health as the Connective Tissue of One Health: Integrating Science, Practice, and Policy
Oral Health Call for Abstracts
Access to Care by Gender Minority: Role of Providers, Patients and Community Based Dental Education.
Advancing Oral Health Equity through Interprofessional Social Work Integration
Championing Systems Thinking in Oral Disease Prevention (think: community water fluoridation, built environment, Healthy People 2030)
Collaborative Community-Based Oral Health Strategies (think: harm reduction, mental health, PCORI, public health-dental integration)
Data-Driven Oral Health Promotion (think: AI models, epidemiology, new data technology)
Democratizing Oral Health Data: Inside CareQuest’s Data Exchange Platform
Interprofessional Oral Health (think: social determinants of health, comorbidities, anti-racism, LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities)
Oral Health Payment and Policy Innovation (think: Medicaid, Medicare, Coverage, Access)
Oral–Systemic Health Awareness: Public Understanding of the Relationship Between Oral Health and Systemic Diseases
Other timely topics in oral public health
Pretesting AI-Translated Swahili Oral Health Education Videos: Community and Expert Insights on Language Accuracy, Cultural Relevance, Pacing, Visual Alignment, and Behavior Change to Improve Caregiver-Focused Health Communication
Virtual Tranquility: A Behavioral Health–Oral Health VR Pilot to Reduce Preoperative Dental Anxiety
Peace Caucus Call for Abstracts
Conflict, climate change and displacement
Health effects of nuclear weapons
Medical peace work: health professionals as agents of conflict prevention and healing
Rebuilding after war: strengthening the infrastructure for peace
Rethinking the U.S. defense budget
The costs of war for veterans
The “war” on drugs: militarization, health harms, and U.S. violence in Central and South America
War as a public health crisis
Pharmacy Call for Abstracts
Access to pharmacist services in rural and other underserved areas
Pharmacy standards of care
Policies and programs that improve access to appropriate, cost-effective medication therapies
Stress Over Mindset? Examining Predictors of Academic Risk and Performance in Student Pharmacists
The use of and available interventions related to synthetic designer drugs
The use of artificial intelligence including medication management and patient counseling
PHEHP Student Awards Contest Call for Abstracts
PHEHP Student Awards
Physical Activity Call for Abstracts
Advancing Movement-Based Care: Joint Session of the Chiropractic Health Care and Physical Activity Sections
Built Environment and Active Transportation to Enhance Physical Activity
Community-Based Physical Activity Interventions
Dissemination & Implementation
Physical Activity Among Children
Physical Activity Among the College Student Population
Physical Activity and Disability
Physical Activity and Environment (organized jointly with the Environment section)
Physical Activity and Mental Health
Physical Activity Epidemiology
Physical Activity Research Methods
Physical Activity throughout the Lifespan
Policies to Increase Population Physical Activity
Rural Physical Activity
Social Determinants of Health and Physical Activity
Public Health Education and Health Promotion (including Health Communication Working Group) Call for Abstracts
Addressing Health Disparities through Health Promotion Initiatives
Advances in Intervention Mapping for Planning Multilevel Health Promotion Programs
Advancing Brain Health Through Community Health Worker Integration Across National, State and Local Public Health Systems
Advancing Digital Mental Health and Peer Support for College Students with Youth-Engaged, Cross-Sector Research and Mental Health Promotion
Aging Population and Baby Boomers Health (organized jointly with the Aging & Public Health Section)
Building Rural Health Futures: Research, Education, and Outcomes from West Virginia’s Health Sciences and Technology Academy (HSTA)
Built Environment, Community Design, and Public Health
Child and Adolescent Health Disparities and Social Determinants of Child and Adolescent Health
Chronic Disease Screening and Prevention
College Health Initiatives
Community Health Workers in Public Health Education and Health Promotion (organized jointly with the Community Health Worker section)
Community-Based and Community-Engaged Research
Community-based Physical Activity Interventions (organized jointly with the Physical Activity section)
Community-level chronic diseases prevention using wastewater analysis
Culturally Responsive Health Communication Strategies and Trusted Messengers to Advance Health Equity (organized by HCWG)
Department of Health Innovative Practices to Improve Population Health
Digital Innovations in Health Communication: From Geofencing to AI-Driven Messaging (organized by HCWG)
Dissemination and Implementation Research
Economic Impact and Return on Investment in Public Health
Evaluation of Public Health Education and Health Promotion Programs
Evidence and Community to Support Health Information Needs of Chinese Americans: A Qualitative Study of Tobacco-Related Misinformation
Examining Factors and Challenges in Cancer Prevention, Screening, Survivorship, and Care (organized by HCWG)
From Voices to Action: How Community-Engaged Needs Assessments Drive Rural Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) Change
HCWG Session Proposal Abstracts: Communication for Thriving Across the Life Span (organized by the HCWG as a panel session)
Health Literacy in Context: Examining Communication, Measurement, and the Digital Landscape (organized by HCWG)
Hybrid Effectiveness–Implementation Studies: Bridging Evidence and Practice in Public Health
Innovations in Training and Education for Challenging Clinical Conditions and Scenarios (organized by HCWG)
Making the Case for Policy Change: Research and Communication Strategies for Impact and Advocacy (organized by HCWG)
Men's Health
Operationalizing Lived Experience in Public Health: Frameworks, Definitions, and Implementation Across Research and Education
Other: Health Communication Topics (organized by HCWG)
Other: Public Health Education and Health Promotion Topics
Population Approaches to Active Living and/or Healthy Eating Behavior Change
Public health educational alliances for workforce parity and health equity
Public Health Leadership and Education Models
Public health photo library in North Carolina advances local, tailored health communication creation
Reaching Audiences Throughout the Life Cycle: Segmentation Strategies by Age or Generation (organized by HCWG)
Responsible AI tools and workflows for qualitative research in public health programs that achieve >90% accuracy with human-in-the-loop safeguards
Science, Justice and Health Equity
Sexual Risk Reduction
Social and Mobile Strategies: Taking Health Communication to Scale (organized by HCWG)
Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities
Strengthening the public health workforce across pathways, competencies, collaboration, and advocacy
Theoretical Frameworks for Health Promotion through the Life Course
Training Youth to be Leaders in Public Health
Understanding Real World Nicotine Pouch Narratives on Online Forums to Inform Responsive Health Communication
We have the technology: Advancing public health by increasing accessibility and utility of health surveillance data
Worksite Wellness and Health Promotion
Public Health Nursing Call for Abstracts
Outbreak response and emergency preparedness
Public Health Nursing Research Symposium
School and occupational health nursing
Public Health Social Work Call for Abstracts
Decolonizing Social Work: The Role of Indigenous Voices, Immigration Policy, Border Health, and Displacement
Preventing and Addressing Environmental Injustices from a Social Work Lens
Preventing Family, Community, Sexual, and Gender-Based Violence
Public Health Social Work Approaches to Addressing Racism & Anti-Blackness
Public Health Social Work Approaches to the Grand Challenges of Social Work
Public Health Social Work Perspectives on Health and Well-Being Across the Lifespan
Public Health Social Work Professional Development:  Increasing Health Promotion and Intervention Literacy
Social Justice-Centered Responses to Pandemics, Conflicts, & Other Global Health Issues
Structural and Population-Level Approaches for Increasing Health Equity & Enhancing Health Access
School Health and Wellness Call for Abstracts
Advances in school health research
Innovations in school-based practice
Physical activity and nutrition in school settings
Sexual and reproductive health
Student mental health and well-being
Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Call for Abstracts
Abortion attitudes, access, care delivery, and/or technologies
Abortion laws and policies
Access to sexual and reproductive education, information, and healthcare
Clarifying Reproductive Health Policies in Texas Emergency Departments for the Post-Dobbs Practice Environment
Community-based, non-clinical, and/or peer-led SRH interventions
Contraception preferences, access, care delivery, and technologies
Economics and SRH
Fertility
Gender affirming care delivery and SRH
Intimate partner violence (IPV) / sexual violence / reproductive coercion
Other SRH topic
Pleasure
SRH & COWR
SRH across the lifespan
SRH among specific populations
SRH data, measurement, and methodological innovations
SRH environment
SRH in Texas
SRH justice and policies
SYPHILIS WITHIN BALTIMORE CITY: A STUDY ON RACIAL DIFFERENTIALS AND SERVICES BY PROVIDER TYPE BEFORE AND AFTER COVID-19
Technology and SRH: AI, social media, telehealth, digital health, and/or virtual care
Women's Rights in Sexual & Reproductive Health
Socialist Caucus Call for Abstracts
Capitalism's role in shaping our health, our health care systems, the food system and the environment
Social class, race and racism, women's health, and the health of marginalized populations in both health and health care.
The movement for national health care
The Public's Health in Crisis: International Perspective
The Public's Health in Crisis: United States Perpective
The struggle for health and justice in the United States and around the world
Trade and Health Forum Call for Abstracts
Climate Change, Energy, Natural Resources, and Health
Commercial Determinants of Health
Economic Policy, Shocks, and Political Economy of Health
Globalization, Trade, and Health Systems
Health Workforce, Migration, and Trade in Conflict Settings
Health-Promoting Trade Policies and Governance
Infectious Disease, Markets, and Global Health Security
Trade, Scarcity, Conflict, and Health
Veterans Caucus Call for Abstracts
Active Duty Military Health
Association between Loneliness, PTSD and Past Month Opioid Use among Military Veterans in East Tennessee
Chronic Disease and Environmental Exposures
Community Integration and Social Determinants of Health
Family and Caregiver Health Across the Lifespan
Health Equity in Military and Veteran Populations
Lifespan Health of Military-Connected Populations
Mental and Behavioral Health Across Service Phases
Policy, Systems, and Public Health Infrastructure
Vision Care Call for Abstracts
Barriers and Facilitators to Access to Eye Care
Children's Vision Screening in Schools and Communities
Digital Eye Strain Across the Lifespan
Economic Burden and Cost-Effectiveness Analyses in Vision and Eye Health
Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Vision Health and Eye Care
Fall Prevention Across the Lifespan
Health Equity: Ensuring Optimal Vision and Eye Health for All
Knowledge of Vision and Eye Health and Care in Population Subgroups: Opportunities for Education and Practice
Other Vision or Eye Health Topics
Poster Session
Preventing Vision Loss and Promoting Eye Health Across the Lifespan
Social Media, Digital Communication, and/or Storytelling in Vision and Eye Health
Structural, Political, and Social Determinants of Health and their Impact on Vision and Eye Health
Translating Eye Health and Treatment Research into Community Health
Vision and Aging
Vision and Eye Care Education and/or Needs Across the Lifespan
Vision and Eye Health, Education, and Care: A Global Perspective
Women's Caucus Call for Abstracts
Aging, Menopause, and Midlife Health
Breast, Gynecologic, and Reproductive Cancers
Cardiovascular and Chronic Disease in Women
Economic, Structural, and Social Determinants of Women’s Health
Emerging and Other Women’s Health Issues
Gender-Based Violence and Its Public Health Consequences
Health Equity, Racism, and Marginalized Women’s Health
HIV, STIs, and Sexual Health Among Women and Gender-Diverse Populations
Innovations in Women’s Health Research and Technology
Sexual & Reproductive Health Access and Policy
Women’s Mental Health Across the Life Course