Title: Epi Section Program Planning Report
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Section/SPIG: Epidemiology
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The Programming Committee is eagerly planning for this year's Annual Meeting: Social Justice: A Public Health Imperative in Denver from Nov. 6 through 10, 2010.
The deadline for the general call for abstracts has passed; however, there are a number of other opportunities to support the Epidemiology Section's program this year:
1) Late-breaker sessions: A Call for Late-Breaker abstracts will be released this spring. Late-breakers must be related to the Annual Meeting theme ("Social Justice") and/or reflect recent data/work that occurred after the general abstracts were due (February 2010). More details will follow as they became available.
2) Invited or Special Session: The Programming Committee welcomes proposals for Invited or Special Sessions (i.e., sessions with invited speakers) related to the Annual Meeting theme, "Social Justice". Additionally, sessions on emerging issues in epidemiologic methods, research and analysis or on the future of epidemiology would also be appropriate submissions. nvited or Special session proposals should have been submitted to the Epidemiology Section Program Planner no later than Feb. 28, 2010. Invited or Special session abstracts must be submitted starting March 16 through the deadline on April 24, 2010. A complete abstract for EACH proposed presentation must be submitted at the Web site, with an indication of the Invited or Special session to which it belongs. An abstract submitted as part of an Invited or Special session should NOT be submitted as an individual contributed abstract.
3) Abstract reviewers: Reviewers are needed for evaluating abstracts submitted to the Epidemiology Section. Each reviewer will be assigned ~12-15 abstracts. If interested, please contact Dr. Karyn Heavner at karynkh@aol.com.
For further information:
Karyn K. Heavner, PhD, MSPH
karynkh@aol.com
Program Planning Chairperson
Aaron B. Mendelsohn, PhD, MPH
apha_epi@yahoo.com
Program Planning Co-Chairperson