Title: CHPPD to Recognize Students with Awards in 2006

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Section/SPIG: Community Health Planning and Policy Development

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The CHPPD leadership will recognize the best submission by a masters and a doctoral student for awards this year. Each award recipient will be chosen on the basis of their abstract review scores and invited to present in a CHPPD oral session. The students will also be given a $200 travel scholarship to the Annual Meeting and an award presented at the CHPPD evening reception. Students receiving scores below the acceptance level will be offered constructive feedback on their abstract from volunteer CHPPD faculty members. The purpose of this new process is to provide new student members and first-time submitters with feedback to help them improve their future APHA abstracts. The student abstract awards were instituted in 2005.