As the ICEHS APHA 2009 Program co-chairs (Keshia and Shannon from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), we would like to thank all of you who submitted and reviewed abstracts for the 2009 APHA Annual Meeting. We were impressed by the quality of the submissions and, unfortunately, we were unable to accept all of the abstracts. We appreciate and thank you for your enthusiasm and interest in sharing your work with the ICEHS community.
We are excited about the program that we assembled. Not including the late-breaker sessions, during the meeting, ICEHS will sponsor nine poster sessions and 15 oral sessions. We are co-sponsoring two sessions with other sections: one on self-inflicted injury jointly-sponsored with the Mental Health Section, and one on eye injuries, jointly organized with the Vision Care Section. In addition we will have several special sessions that highlight injury research methods, exploration of data, trust in public health during disasters, and water-related injuries. Please be on the lookout for a detailed schedule of all of the sessions in our fall ICEHS newsletter.
We want to remind you that the deadline for late-breaker abstract submission is Friday, July 17, 2009 at 11:59 PST. The announcement for the call is below.
We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia!
Submission Deadline: Friday, July 17, 2009, 11:59 PM PST
APHA's Injury Control and Emergency Health Services (ICEHS) Section is inviting abstracts to be submitted for two Late-Breaker Sessions to occur at the 2009 APHA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. The poster session is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 8 from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The oral session is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 10 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. 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 15, 2009 and July 17, 2009, 11:59 p.m. 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, “Water and Public Health,” 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 on the online submission Web site. To be considered, students must submit a complete manuscript for review by Sept. 1, 2009. Detailed instructions regarding the Student Paper Award will be posted on the ICEHS Web site: http://www.apha.org/membergroups/sections/aphasections/icehs/
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All abstracts must be submitted through APHA’s Web site: http://apha.confex.com/apha/136am/late.htm
Notification of decisions will be e-mailed to all submitters in early August. Please address questions to Dr. Shannon Frattaroli, ICEHS Late Breaker Coordinator, at sfrattar@jhsph.edu.