Submission Deadline: July 11, 2008, 11:59 PM PST

APHA's Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section is inviting abstracts to be submitted for two Late-Breaker Sessions to occur at the 2008 APHA Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. The poster session is scheduled for Tuesday, October 28 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM. The oral session is scheduled for Wednesday, October 29, from 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM.

These sessions are a forum for presentation of research findings and events that have been produced or transpired recently (i.e., after the February deadline of the original ICEHS Call for Abstracts). A brief statement should be included in the abstract (or in the expanded summary, described below) that justifies how the work meets this criterion of being “late-breaking.”

The Section will accept abstracts of no more than 250 words (structured as: Background/Purpose, Methods, Results/Outcomes, and Conclusions) between June 12, 2008 and July 11, 2008, 11:59 PM PST. An expanded summary of the paper must be submitted with the abstract. The average length of an expanded summary is 500 words (maximum limit of 2,000). Its purpose is to provide additional information to help reviewers judge the relevance and quality of your work. It should not repeat the abstract material, but instead should provide complementary details about the work. Do not include tables or figures in your submission.

Preferences for oral versus poster presentation will be considered, but the program committee will make the final determination. Only one abstract may be submitted per primary author. Abstracts must contain results, and abstracts specific to the theme of the conference, “Public Health Without Borders,” are encouraged. Individuals who present abstracts at the Annual Meeting must be members of the APHA.

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Students are encouraged to submit a late-breaker abstract and are eligible to be considered for the Student Paper Award. Your preference to be considered can be indicated using the menus in the online submission website. To be considered for the Award competition, students must submit a complete manuscript for review by September 1, 2008. Detailed instructions regarding the Student Paper Award will be posted on the ICEHS website: http://www.apha.org/membergroups/sections/aphasections/icehs/

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All abstracts must be submitted through APHA’s website: http://apha.confex.com/apha/136am/late.htm

Notification of decisions will be e-mailed to all submitters in mid-August. Please address questions to Douglas Wiebe, ICEHS Program Chair, at dwiebe@mail.med.upenn.edu.