Call for Proposals

1. The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) invites oral and poster proposal submissions for our 2025 ASPPH Annual Meeting for Academic Public Health March 19 - 21, 2025 in Arlington, VA. We are looking for proposals related to innovative ideas, promising and emerging practices, and practical solutions. The proposals should address challenges and opportunities in graduate and undergraduate academic public health.

   Please carefully review all the information below before starting your submission. Submissions are due Friday, October 11, 2024, at 11:59 PM PT. For any questions or additional information, please contact meetings@aspph.org.

2. Program Areas

   Our call for proposals has eight program areas—please click on the program area title below for a description of each area. The areas are intentionally broad to encourage submissions from across the diverse, innovative, and collaborative field of academic public health.

   1) Creating Equitable Health Outcomes Locally and Globally

   
   

   Seeking proposals that acknowledge the unique and important messaging required to enhance optimal health for diverse audiences along the continuum of life’s stages. We seek contributions that deepen our understanding of the diverse factors influencing health outcomes, including, climate change, geographic, racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, resource-based and ability-related differences. Proposals should highlight intervention and education strategies for overcoming barriers to equitable health outcomes and longevity and address the unique challenges faced by populations domestically and globally.

   2) Diversifying Public Health Pathways and Ensuring Student and Alumni Success

   
   

   This program area seeks submissions that provide examples of innovative and diverse programs, activities, strategies, or placements that promote the various pathways for students to enter public health careers. Submissions to this area could detail innovative or promising practices in K12 and community college partnerships or pathways programs, admissions/recruitment, career services, alumni relations/development, staffing for success, and advising. Proposals are sought that approach both undergraduate and graduate issues.

   3) Innovation in Finance, Operations, and Administration: Models Supporting Effectiveness in Academic Public Health

   
   

   This program area focuses on schools and programs of public health that have successfully developed and implemented successful models to establish new or sustain existing programs and partnerships that can serve as exemplars. We are seeking proposals on innovative talent management strategies for staff and faculty, promotion and tenure models, collaborations and partnerships in support of new programs, and budget and financial models.

   4) Partnerships, Advocacy, and Policies

   
   

   Proposals submitted under this program area should be those that contribute to the further understanding of the interconnectedness of policies at the university/institution, community, local, state, regional, or federal level that impact structures designed to ensure healthy outcomes for everyone everywhere. Proposals demonstrating examples of academic-community partnerships with health departments, federal agencies, and/or NGOs that are designed to leverage resources and overcome barriers and structures that impede positive health outcomes are especially welcomed, including the role of advocacy and policies.

   5) Research and Evidenced-based Public Health Solutions

   
   

   Submissions to this program area could include but are not limited to those that highlight the future of academic public health and research partnerships, implications of artificial intelligence utilized as a part of public health research, impactful and successful community-based participatory research models, public health as a STEM field, research and interventions that show promise for enhancing population health, NIH or CDC funding of prevention and implementation science, and innovations in qualitative and quantitative research methodology. We are especially interested in programmatic examples that have embraced the value of teaching and applied practice as part of academic research portfolios.

   6) Strategic Communication and Digital Marketing in Public Health

   
   

   We are seeking proposals that showcase innovative approaches to marketing and communications in public health, emphasizing the critical role of effective messaging and outreach in promoting public health to potential/current students and/or local communities. We seek proposals that showcase cutting-edge strategies for engaging diverse communities, leveraging digital platforms to maximize impact, and disseminating public health information - including research and thought-leadership pieces. Successful case studies, theoretical frameworks, and evidence-based practices can inform and advance the field of public health communication and marketing. Submissions highlighting interdisciplinary approaches and partnerships between schools and programs of public health, public health professionals, communication experts, and technology innovators are particularly encouraged.

   7) Transformative Approaches to Education and Learning

   
   

   This program area aims to respond to the question: “How is academic public health using high-impact educational strategies and practices to prepare current and future generations of learners to protect the public's health?” Submissions are sought for exemplars demonstrating generative AI; models and projects that incorporate innovations and technology in the curriculum; scholarly teaching and learning, such as flipped classrooms, learner-centered methodologies, and engaging students with community-driven research; interprofessional education for collaborative practice; culturally responsive assessment, data collection, and evaluation; responses to the Framing the Future 2030 call to action; micro-credentialing and badging; and competency-based education, among other topics.

   8) Workforce Development and Applied Practice

   
   

   This program area is intended to highlight academic training that develops and strengthens the public health workforce to protect and promote the health of all people in all populations. We are seeking proposals in the areas of public health workforce research, workforce competencies and training, professionalization and credentialing of the workforce, diversity and belonging, and academic and practice linkages, including academic health department models and collaborations to advance student training (i.e., applied practice experiences and integrative learning experiences), as well as workforce recruitment and retention.

3. Session formats

   
   

   1. Oral (15-20 minutes paired with complementary submissions)
   2. Poster
   
   NOTE: If a submitter wishes to submit a proposal for a full one-hour session, please email meetings@aspph.org.

4. Submission Deadline

   Submissions are due Friday, October 11, 2024 by 11:59 PM PT.

   Proposal Notification

   Submitters will be notified via email of their proposal status in early December 2024. Please make sure your email address is correct and up to date to receive the notification.

   Registration and Membership

   Membership is not required to submit a proposal or to register for the meeting. If your proposal is accepted for presentation, the presenting author(s) MUST register for and attend the 2025 ASPPH Annual Meeting for Academic Public Health in Arlington, VA.

5. Proposal Requirements

   Please review the proposal requirements before starting your submission:

   1. Submitters must select a program area.
   2. Individuals may submit more than one proposal but may NOT submit the same proposal to more than one program area.
   3. The proposal text may contain up to, but not more than, 500 words. No images, charts, or tables are allowed.
   4. All proposals must be free of commercial intent.
   5. No fees are required to submit a proposal; however, if your proposal is accepted, the presenting author(s) MUST register for and attend the meeting.
   6. Incomplete proposals will not be reviewed/accepted.
   7. To begin, click the "Begin a submission" button at the bottom of the page.