Call for Abstracts
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday 27 June 2008.
Abstracts are invited for oral and poster presentations (or both).
Guidance for Submission of Abstracts
Abstracts that do not adhere to the guidelines outlined on the abstract submission site, or are received after the closing date will not be considered.
All Abstracts must be submitted online at www.cmsabstracts.com/publichealth08 and adhere to the guidelines which can be found on the abstract submission site.
Abstracts will be acknowledged on receipt (by email) and authors will receive notification of the selection committee’s decision by the week commencing 21 July 2008.
Oral presentations will be allocated 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes discussion.
Poster presenters will have the opportunity to present their posters over the two-day period during the lunch and refreshment breaks.
Submission of Speed Presentation Applications
As an innovation last year speed presentations were introduced. In view of their success this opportunity to make presentations at speed, will be available, which will focus on the main themes.
This is to allow ideas, issues, thoughts, or work in progress to be raised to allow the audience to think, reflect upon and add to in small open forums. In this way we hope to encourage even more active participation and allow networking of people and ideas to link and merge from the dialogues.
Presentations must be no longer than FIVE minutes in total and should seek merely to put forward the idea, linked to one of the main themes of the conference as outlined on the previous page. Agreed presentations will be aggregated around the identified theme and the session will offer sufficient presentations to encourage dialogue across and within these presentations. There will be a chair/facilitator to encourage such interlinkings.
Guidance for Submission of Speed Presentation Applications
Submissions for speed presentations will only require the title of the idea and the theme identified, not the submission of a full abstract.
Submissions should include the following: title of the idea, the theme identified and your contact details including current email address.
Please email applications for speed presentations to: Richard.snowden@shsc.csa.scot.nhs.uk
Please do not submit these via the online abstract submission site.
Speed presentation applications will be acknowledged on receipt (by email) and authors will receive notification of the selection committee’s decision by the week commencing 21 July 2008.
Speed presentation applications that do not adhere to the guidelines outlined above, or are received after the closing date, will not be considered.
Please note that speed presentation sessions will only occur if there is sufficient interest.
Please see the full Call for Abstracts [pdf] for details.