CALL FOR EMERGING, HOT TOPIC ABSTRACTS
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION SITE TO OPEN FEBRUARY 6, 2025. (When you’re on the abstract submission site, scroll all the way down for the submission forms.)
DEADLINE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Timely and Emerging Hot-Topic Abstracts
We welcome you to submit an abstract on a “timely or emerging hot topic” for an individual poster presentation, an organized paper symposium, an organized team science panel, or a roundtable discussion/scientific dialogue at the SPR 2025 Annual Meeting. Consider submitting an abstract if your research, methodology, policy work, or new data represent a timely or emerging hot-topic issue, especially if it relates to the overall conference theme of Prevention Science for Action: Leveraging Data Science & Technology to Enhance Research, Practice & Policy. Note that we particularly encourage roundtable discussions/scientific dialogues.
Three hot topics have been identified as particularly timely for the SPR 2025 Annual Meeting. Emerging prevention research related to the following topics will be considered.
- Links between social determinants of health and new infectious diseases (e.g., H5N1). Submissions on the role of prevention science in reducing adverse impacts of social determinants of health on infectious diseases or in reducing adverse consequences of infectious diseases are particularly encouraged.
- Mental and behavioral health impacts of recent natural disasters (e.g., California wildfires, hurricane-related flooding). Submissions on the role of prevention science in reducing adverse impacts of natural disasters on health for all are particularly encouraged.
- Trauma related to socio-political conflict, migration or immigration, and policy change. Submissions on the role of prevention science in trauma-informed care and the prevention of secondary trauma are particularly encouraged.
Please note the following.
- The hot-topic abstract deadline is not intended as an extension of the general submission date, which has passed.
- Accepted hot-topic submissions will be presented in the same sessions as accepted general submissions (e.g., individual poster presentations during 1 of 3 evening poster sessions, roundtable discussions/scientific dialogues during regular, 90-minute concurrent sessions).
- Hot-topic abstracts will undergo formal peer-review evaluation by the SPR Conference Committee.