Title: CHPPD Section Has More Sessions/Abstracts at Annual Meeting
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Section/SPIG: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
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This year we have received more abstracts than any year since the last time APHA was in Boston in 2000. We will also have more sessions this year than ever before. The topics that received the largest number of submissions once again were Methodologies and Partnerships. However, a new topic addressing bioterrorism, epidemics and disasters received a similar number of submissions. The subjects of Human Rights and HIPPA received extremely few abstract submissions. We had 474 abstracts reviewed and will be accepting 352 of them. This year we will have 15 invited sessions, 9 poster sessions, 5 roundtables and 30 oral sessions. The scheduling of some of these sessions are unfortunately not at the most popular times. The lunch hour of 12:30-2:00 will have many sessions each day. We have a full day of sessions scheduled for Wednesday. So please plan to be at the meeting through the 2:30-4:00 p.m. session on Wednesday.