CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — APHA 2026 Annual Meeting and Expo
One Health Late Breakers
Meeting theme: "Together We Thrive: Health Across the Lifespan"
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, June 30, 2026
One Health is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach to public health that recognizes the interconnections between people, animals, plants, and their shared ecosystems. One Health work occurs locally, regionally, nationally, and globally to address the policies, systems, and environments that impact their shared wellbeing.
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.
The theme for this year’s APHA Annual Meeting is "Together We Thrive: Health Across the Lifespan." Within the context of One Health, this theme offers an opportunity to highlight the ways that human-animal-plant-ecosystem interactions are integral to the health of all species and systems across time. However, abstracts do not necessarily need to match the theme to be considered for inclusion in the One Health scientific program.
Late Breakers - One Health
Abstract Guidelines:
Limit to 300 words.
Please include the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Findings, Implications. Section headings that correspond with those sections are helpful but not necessary. 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.
About the APHA One Health 2026 scientific program:
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.
APHA required in-person attendance for both poster presentations and oral presentations.
Poster presentations occur during Poster Sessions, each consisting of up to 10 posters presented in-person. These sessions are an hour long, during which time presenters are expected to stand by their poster to give an overview of their work to visitors and answer questions.
Oral presentations occur during either traditional Oral Sessions, each consisting of four 15-20 minute oral presentations presented in-person, or Lightning Sessions, each consisting of up to ten 5-minute oral presentations.
