Call for abstracts Health and Social Justice Student Poster Session at APHA
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
HEALTH & SOCIAL JUSTICE STUDENT POSTER SESSION
American Public Health Association Spirit of 1848 Caucus
Abstracts due: Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014
To submit: http://www.apha.org/meetings/sessions/
For APHA 2014, THE SPIRIT OF 1848 SOCIAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC HEALTH STUDENT POSTER SESSION is having an *open call for abstracts* (due Wed, February 12, 2014) for posters that highlight the intersection between social justice and public health from a historical, theoretical, epidemiological, ethnographic, and/or methodological perspective (whether quantitative or qualitative). It was at APHA 2002 that the Spirit of 1848, eight years after its founding in 1994, first sponsored a student poster session, to formalize our recognition that engaging the next generation is critical for continuing and expanding the work linking social justice and public health.
We welcome abstracts on topics ranging from public health research to public health practice to student-initiated courses on connections between social justice & public health. Given the theme of this year’s APHA meeting (“Healthography: How where you live affects your health and well-being”), we encourage abstracts that critically examine the importance of “place,” broadly defined, as it relates to the social determinants of health in research and practice.
We accordingly are seeking abstracts from students of public health and health related programs, as well as enrolled in non-health-specific disciplines such as urban planning, demography, sociology, and geography. The work presented can be global, country-specific, or local.
— We encourage students at ALL levels of training to submit abstracts, whether undergraduates, MPH or other master students, medical or nursing students, or doctoral students; submissions will be judged in accordance to expectations appropriate for each level of training. Postdoctoral fellows are NOT eligible to submit posters.
— Abstracts should focus on furthering understanding and action to address the ways that social inequality harms, and social equity improves, the public’s health. Examples of social inequality include inequitable social divisions within societies based on social class, race/ethnicity, nativity, Indigenous and immigrant status, gender, and sexuality, as well as inequitable relations between nations and geographical regions.
–This session will take place at the 142nd annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, in New Orleans, LA on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 in the 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm APHA time slot.
–Reminder: for this session we are issuing an *open call for abstracts*: all posters for this session will be selected from abstracts submitted in response to this “call for abstracts.” Please note that if your abstract is accepted we expect you to present your poster at the APHA conference. If you are not able to attend we ask that you find someone to stand in for you so that we can maintain a full program.
— Abstracts are due on February 12, 2014
— Abstract word limit: 250 words
— All relevant instructions can be found at the APHA abstract submission website; see: http://www.apha.org/meetings/sessions/
For any questions about this session, please contact Spirit of 1848 Coordinating Committee members Tabashir Sadegh-Nobari (tabashir@ucla.edu), Allegra Gordon (argordon@mail.harvard.edu), or Jake Coffey (JCoffey@uams.edu).
More Info:
142nd Annual APHA Meeting
Theme: Healthography: How where you live affects your health and well-being
Nov. 15-19, 2014
New Orleans, LA
