We are delighted to invite abstract submissions for Public Health Science: A National Conference Dedicated to New Research in UK Public Health, to be held in Belfast, UK, on Nov 23, 2018. This is our seventh annual conference to showcase the creativity of the public health research community in the UK and Ireland. The conference provides a forum for academics, practitioners, and policy makers to discuss important public health issues, and learn about the latest public health science and its role in advancing and supporting public health practice, policy, and health services.
As with previous conferences, the event will consist of oral paper presentations, keynote speeches, and chaired poster presentations. The conference seeks to cover diverse public health fields and, on the basis of the feedback from previous years, there will be a focus on the wider determinants of health and implementation of public health science and on measuring its impact. We encourage submissions from a wide array of disciplines and new methodological approaches.
Abstracts from all areas of public health science are welcome and can be submitted under any of the following themes:
- creativity in public health science
- new methodological approaches to public health science
- impact and implementation of public health science in policy and practice.
Abstracts must be relevant to UK and Ireland public health science, policy, and practice. However, the work can have been completed, and submitted from, anywhere in the world.
In recognition of the talents of public health scientists, we will again be awarding oral and poster presentation prizes to early career researchers sponsored by NIHR School for Public Health Research and Public Health England. Presentation of innovative and memorable work by early career researchers enhances the scientific content of the conference and the participants’ experience. If you wish to be entered into the competition for early career researchers, please tell us if you are a pre-PhD researcher (eg, MSc student, foundation year trainee, research assistant, public health trainee, or academic clinical fellow), PhD student, or postdoctoral trainee (clinical lecturers, clinician scientist fellows, or equivalent posts) when you submit your abstract. A prize for the best piece of implementation research—sponsored by Public Health England—will also be selected from all submissions.
Peer-reviewed abstracts will be published by The Lancet online and in print. Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words, be written in English, and contain no references, tables, or figures. Submissions should include the following sections: background (including context and aim); methods; findings; and interpretation. Please also include a non-declamatory title (including a study descriptor—eg, randomised); names, titles, highest degrees, and affiliations of authors; postal and email addresses for the corresponding author; any funding received (if none, please state this); and a brief summary of the contributions of each author and any competing interests. Abstract guidelines are available on The Lancet‘s website. Reports of randomised trials should follow the CONSORT extension for abstracts guidance.
Submit your abstract as a Microsoft Word document through The Lancet’s online submission system, stating in your covering letter that the submission is for the Public Health Science conference. The abstract submission deadline is June 18, 2018. After The Lancet‘s peer-review process, successful participants will be informed of acceptance of abstracts for oral or poster presentation by Aug 25, 2018. This information and further details are available on the Public Health Science conference website.
Online booking for the conference is now also open here – https://www.eventsforce.net/hg3/129/home