Criteria for Submission: students, faculty and professionals of all disciplines are invited to submit abstracts for posters and/or oral presentations on the conference theme of “At a Crossroads: Choosing Hidden Paths in Global Health.”
We will accept approximately 30 posters through a competitive process and a very limited number of oral presentations. We are looking for presentations that speak to the following conference foci:
Politics of the Global Health Agenda:
Whether through funding, media attention or professional training, certain health issues are deemphasized or ignored all together. What factors constitute what is hot and what is not in global health? How are our larger health systems responding to cuts in government funding, debates on health-coverage, and heightened defense spending in numerous countries?
Training of Health Care Professionals:
What innovative training/education models are being implemented in the field that is relevant to the needs of communities? What are current gaps in training/education, and how can these gaps be discussed and remedied?
Realties in the Field:
Which populations are we not responding to and why? How can these populations be better served considering a) constraints of normative paradigms b) limited resources c) building on work already being done in local communities?
Criteria for selection: The abstract committee will review all submissions by the following criteria: originality; organization; quality and clarity; methods and materials used; and relevance of the project to the conference foci.
Deadline: Submission Deadline is November 15, 2011. Late submissions will not be accepted.You will be notified by e-mail of your abstract’s acceptance status by January 30, 2012.
Funding: We will not be able to fund your participation: Funding for poster production, travel or registration is not available for this conference. Presenters must be registered for the conference. We urge participants with accepted posters to contact sources at their respective schools for funding and/or fund raising ideas.
Guidelines: All abstracts must be submitted in English. Total word count, excluding author names, affiliations and titles, must be under 250 words. Submissions with word counts far exceeding 250 will not be considered by the review committee. Handwritten abstracts will not be reviewed.
To submit your abstract, go to our dropbox here.
If you have any questions other than where to submit regarding an abstract submission, please contact Colleen Fulp at the Global Health Resource Center (GHRC) at cfulp@u.washington.edu .