2012 APHA SPIRIT OF 1848 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
(for pdf version of the call for abstracts click here.)

Abstracts are due on FEBRUARY 8, 2012
with abstract submission opening on Friday, December 16, 2011.

All relevant instructions can be found at the APHA abstract submission website:
http://www.apha.org/meetings/sessions/

Note the APHA reminders re: abstract requirements below, including:
(a) word limit of 250 words; and (b) how to ensure the presentation is eligible for continuing education (CE) credits.
WE STRONGLY REQUEST THAT ANYONE SEEKING TO PRESENT IN A SPIRIT OF 1848 SESSON PREPARE THEIR ABSTRACT IN ACCORD WITH THE CE REQUIREMENTS (WHICH ARE QUITE MINIMAL) SO THAT FOLK ATTENDING APHA CAN GET CE CREDITS FOR ATTENDING OUR SESSIONS WITH THEIR SOCIAL JUSTICE PERSPECTIVE ON PUBLIC HEALTH!

American Public Health Association: 140th Annual Meeting
“Prevention and Wellness Across the Lifespan”
San Francisco, CA, October 27 - 31, 2012

SOCIAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC HEALTH, PREVENTION & WELLNESS OVER THE LIFESPAN:
THEME FOR APHA 2012 SPIRIT OF 1848 SESSIONS:

The theme of the APHA 2012 140th annual meeting (“Prevention and Wellness Across the Lifespan,” San Francisco, CA, Oct 27-31, 2012) is one that we seek to place in its larger societal context, paying heed to level & spatiotemporal scale (i.e., lifespan of individuals, of neighborhoods & communities, and of historical generations at the national and global level). Moreover, in addition to our usual focus on ensuring speaker diversity in relation to race/ethnicity and gender, we also plan to include speakers ranging from the rising generation of youth, with their often wonderfully audacious impatience to create a better world, to our elders who are rich with experience, knowing we can learn much from both.

As usual, we are organizing 4 oral sessions and 1 poster session, together addressing the 3 themes of our caucus, which concern the inextricable links between social justice and public health, as manifested in: the politics of public health data, social history of public health, and progressive pedagogy.

SOCIAL HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH SESSION: This session, titled “Critical Histories of Social Justice and Health Activism Across the Generations,” will accept only solicited abstracts that critically examine the history of inter-generational activism that seeks to build social welfare states and social protection (i.e., promoting societal health & preventing health inequities, from "womb to tomb"). The session will be held on the Monday morning of APHA (Oct 29, 2012), in the 10:30am to noon time slot. It will be co-organized by Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Luis Avilés, and Sarah Ramírez.

POLITICS OF PUBLIC HEALTH DATA SESSION: This session, titled “Critical perspectives on lifecourse and time trend analyses: social justice & the politics of public health data” will have an open call for abstracts and also solicit abstracts – that critically address either of the following two issues:

• (1) Concerns about the increasingly depoliticized, individualistic, and ahistorical approach to “lifecourse” appearing in biomedical research and its emphasis on early life (including prenatal) exposures and maternal effects. This orientation in the literature has resulted in scant attention to: (a) the roles of resilience/plasticity, gender relations, and fathers/partners (both social and biological factors), and (b) the importance of adolescent & adult experiences (noting that myriad studies demonstrate the importance of addressing cumulative disadvantage)

• (2) Critical analysis of changing magnitudes of health inequities over time, whether within or between countries or regions, in relationship to historical generation & societal context, including for specific age groups.

This session will be organized by Spirit of 1848 Coordinating Committee members Catherine Cubbin, Vanessa Simonds, and Nancy Krieger. This session will be in the Monday afternoon 2:00 to 4:30 pm APHA time slot (Oct 29, 2012).

INTEGRATIVE SESSION: Starting with the APHA 2002 Conference, the Spirit of 1848 has sponsored an “integrative” session that integrates the three themes of our Caucus, all pertaining to the inextricable links between social justice & public health.

For APHA 2012, our integrative session, titled “Embodying history – and changing it: health inequities, social justice, and biology in context – the case of breast cancer” will accept only solicited abstracts. It will critically examine issues of social justice and public health across the “lifespan” – critically assessed in relation to different timescales and levels – and will do so in relation to the 3 foci of our Spirit of 1848 Caucus: the social history of public health, the politics of public health data, and progressive pedagogy for public health.

The session will be organized Spirit of 1848 Coordinating Committee members Nancy Krieger, Anne Emanuelle Birn, and Luis Avilés. The session will take place during the Monday afternoon 4:30 to 6:00 pm APHA time slot (Oct 29, 2012).

PROGRESSIVE PEDAGOGY SESSION: This session, titled “Progressive pedagogy across the lifespan,” will accept only solicited abstracts that critically examine teaching, both in and outside of traditional academic settings, that includes a focus on social justice & public health in relation to different age groups and/or is geared towards either younger students (e.g., in high school) or to elders in our communities. This session will examine issues of social justice and public health across the lifespan in relation to both content and pedagogical approaches.

This session is organized by Spirit of 1848 Coordinating Committee members Suzanne Christopher and Lisa Moore, along with Cheryl Merzel. It will be held during the Tuesday morning 8:30 to 10:00 am APHA time slot (Oct 30, 2012).

SOCIAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC HEALTH: STUDENT POSTERS: For APHA 2012, The Spirit of 1848 is having an *open call for abstracts* from students of public health and health-related programs that highlight the intersection between social justice and public health from a historical, theoretical, epidemiological, ethnographic, and/or methodological perspective (whether quantitative or qualitative). We welcome abstracts on topics ranging from public health research to public health practice to student-initiated courses on connections between social justice & public health. The work presented can be global, country-specific, or local.

• We encourage students at ALL levels of training in their work on public health to submit abstracts, whether undergraduates, master students, MPH students, medical students, or doctoral students; submissions will be judged in accordance to expectations appropriate for each level of training. Postdoctoral fellows are NOT eligible to submit posters.

• Abstracts should focus on furthering understanding and action to address the ways that social inequality harms, and social equity improves, the public’s health. Examples of social inequality include inequitable social divisions within societies based on social class, race/ethnicity, nativity, Indigenous and immigrant status, gender, and sexuality, as well as inequitable relations between nations and geographical regions. Given the theme of this year’s APHA conference, we welcome abstracts that critically examine “lifecourse” perspectives as they relate to the social determinants of health in research and practice. In particular we are interested in submissions that put issues of social justice and public health across the lifespan into larger societal context with careful consideration of historical time and place in addition to individual life histories.

• This session will take place at the 140th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, in San Francisco, CA on Tuesday, October 30, 2012 in the 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm APHA time slot.

• Reminder: for this session we are issuing an *open call for abstracts*: all posters for this session will be selected from abstracts submitted in response to this “call for abstracts.” Please note that if your abstract is accepted we expect you to present your poster at the APHA conference. If you are not able to attend we ask that you find someone to stand in for you so that we can maintain a full program.

• Abstracts are due on Wednesday, February 8, 2012; all relevant instructions can be found at the APHA abstract submission website; see: http://www.apha.org/meetings/sessions/.

For any questions about this session, please contact Spirit of 1848 Coordinating Committee members Rebekka Lee or Tabashir Sadegh-Nobari.

APHA Reminders re: Abstract Requirements & Continuing Education Credits:

APHA ABSTRACT REQUIREMENTS:
• Abstracts should be no more than 250 words
• All presenters must be Individual members of APHA in order to present.
• All presenters must register for the meeting.
• Abstracts cannot be presented or published in any journal prior to the APHA Annual Meeting.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
APHA values the ability to provide continuing education credit to physicians, nurses, health educators and those certified in public health at its annual meeting. Please complete all required information when submitting an abstract so members can claim credit for attending your session. These credits are necessary for members to keep their licenses and credentials.

For a session to be eligible for Continuing Education Credit, each presenter must provide:

1) an abstract free of trade and/or commercial product names

2) at least one MEASURABLE objective (DO NOT USE understand or to learn as objectives, they are not measureable).
Examples of Acceptable Measurable Action Words: Explain, Demonstrate, Analyze, Formulate, Discuss, Compare, Differentiate, Describe, Name, Assess, Evaluate, Identify, Design, Define or List.

3) A signed Conflict of Interest (Disclosure) form with a relevant Qualification Statement. See an example of an acceptable Qualification Statement on the online Disclosure form.

http://www.apha.org/meetings/sessions/

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