SCPHA Call for Abstracts

Deadline for Breakout Session Proposals: 11:59pm (pst) on 08/31/2016
You are invited to submit an abstract for an oral breakout session presentation for the Southern California Public Health Association (SCPHA) 2016 Annual Conference. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at The California Endowment’s Center for Healthy Living at1000 N. Alameda St, Los Angeles, 90012. The theme for the conference is Strategies for a Healthy Southern California: Ensuring the Right to Health. SCPHA requests abstracts that address the conference theme providing information on successes and challenges of current public health issues and focus on health equity. Attendees at the conference include public health professionals, medical professionals, health administrators, students, and public health partners (city planners, public works, non-profits, etc.).

Conference Theme: Strategies for a Healthy Southern California: Ensuring the Right to Health
Abstracts should address current prevention research and health promotion practices. We encourage presentations that are interactive, will enhance participants’ understanding and skill development, and fit within the conference theme. To address the theme, we strongly recommend proposals that include policy, systems, and environmental change and intervention strategies that address health equity.

Conference Goal and ObjectivesThe educational goal of the 2016 SCPHA Annual Meeting is to offer professionals and practitioners the opportunity to enhance their knowledge, exchange information on best practices, and learn about the latest research and trends in public health. Educational objectives for the conference are:

1. To address the gap between public health practitioners' knowledge and performance as it relates to developing and implementing policies that demonstrate a collaborative approach to improving the health of all people.

2. To define the roles of the public health community in working together to promote health, equity, and sustainability as public health policies are developed and implemented.

3. To increase knowledge of the public health community to incorporate health, equity, and sustainability into specific policies, programs, and processes. And to embed health, equity, and sustainability considerations into government decision-making processes.

4. To identify best practices in developing and implementing health in all policies.

5. To improve the competencies of public health practitioners though skill-building.
Required information: Full title of presentation.Indicate type of presentation (Full Session Proposal or Individual Presentation Proposal). Name(s) of presenter(s) along with credentials (e.g., academic degrees), job title(s), and contact information (phone, e-mail and address).Brief biography.Abstract that does not exceed 2000 characters.Learning objectives specific to the presentation (minimum of two). Additional information: If submitting for a full-panel session, it is recommended that you limit your speakers to no more than 3. If submitting as an individual speaker, your presentation will be grouped together with other individual abstract proposals (no more than 3 total per session). All presenters are required to submit their resume (oral presenters only), pay for registration (reduced rate for presenters), and provide electronic copy of their presentation and/or handouts prior to the conference.

Date Submitted:

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Session Type:*

I would like to be considered for a Full Panel (2-4 speakers on a single/complimentary topic)I would like to be considered for an Individual Presentation (will be grouped together with 2-3 other speakers/abstracts)
Poster Option

If not selected for an Oral Presentation, I would like to be considered for a Poster Presentation
Speaker Information *If submitting as an individual presentation, please limit the number of speakers to 1 (your presentation will be grouped with 1-2 other abstract submissiosn to complete the full session). If submitting as a full-panel, it is highly recommended that you limit the total number of speakers to no more than 3.

Breakout Sessions will be approximately 60 minutes (includes time for presentations, introductions, and Q/A).
First Name:*
Last Name:*
Full name as you would like it to appear in the program*
E-mail (all conference notifications will be sent to this address).*
Degree(s):
Company/School:
Title:
Phone:*
Are you a current member of SCPHA?*

YesNo
Brief Personal Bio *If selected, all oral presenters will be required to submit a resume/CV*
Abstract Title:*
Is this a student designed and/or implemented research or project? *please only check if lead author is/was a student when the work was completed.*

YesNo
Abstract (max 2000 characters):*
Learning Objectives (2 required): Learning objectives should state learning outcomes expected as a result of your presentation. They include what the participant will be able to define, identify, describe, discuss and/or analyze. Examples: 1. Participants will be able to describe three effective or promising practices relating to how where they live affects their health. 2. Participants will be able to define the concepts of health disparities and inequalities.

Additional Presenters: please provide only if they will attend conference.
Speaker #2
Last Name:
First Name:
Full name as you would like it to appear in the program
Degree(s):
Company/School:
Title:
E-mail Address:
Speaker #3
Last Name:
First Name:
Full name as you would like it to appear in the program
Degree(s):
Company/School:
Title:
E-mail Address:
Speaker #4
Last Name:
First Name:
Full name as you would like it to appear in the program
Degree(s):
Company/School:
Title:
E-mail Address:
Please read and check each of the following*

If selected, I understand that all presenters must register for the conference before the deadline.If selected, I understand that I must provide resumes for all presenters by 9/10/2016If selected, I understand that presentation slides must be provided by 12/5/2016
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