: : Call for Posters
Submissions Deadline: Expired - October 14, 2007
The Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC) will hold its 17th annual GHEC Conference in Sacramento, California at the Sacramento City Convention Center, on April 3 - 5, 2008.
GHEC invites abstracts for the 20087 poster session on any global health service, research, education, or policy topic. Descriptions of short and long term projects, field site development, etc., are also welcome. Abstracts need not be related to the conference theme.
Preference is given to work done in underdeveloped countries and underserved areas globally. Posters will be selected through a competitive process. Funding from GHEC for travel and registration is not available for this meeting. We urge participants with accepted posters to contact sources at their respective schools for funding and/or fund raising ideas.
- STUDENTS: Your role in the project should be well defined and clear and a faculty member must review your project. Please ensure that the abstract has been prepared as per the suggested guidelines. (See Guidelines for Making a Good Poster, Poster Size Information).
- RESIDENTS AND FACULTY: In addition to other topics, we encourage you to submit abstracts for posters describing international programs and field elective sites.
Criteria for selection: All submissions will be evaluated by the abstract committee by the following criteria: originality; organization; quality and clarity; methods and materials used; and importance of the project in regards to the problem addressed and relevance to global health issues.
Deadline and submission format. Submit your abstract by completing the >Online Form. Abstracts must be submitted by October 5, 2007 **Deadline Extended to October 14, 2007 - 12pm EDT ** . Late submissions will not be accepted. If you have any questions regarding an abstract submission, please contact the GHEC Secretariat by email at info@globalhealth-ec.org.
Review and Notification Process
Your abstract will be submitted for review to the review committee.
GHEC will notify you by e-mail of your abstract's acceptance status no later than December 20, 2007.
** The author’s submission implies that the abstract has not been previously published, and that all co-authors are aware that their names appear on the abstract. Submission also implies the author and co-authors grant permission to GHEC for the abstract to appear in the conference program, GHEC website and marketing/publicity materials distributed after the 2006 Conference.
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 be returned to the author for editing prior to review. If the abstract is not shortened and resubmitted by the author by the October 5th deadline, it will not be considered by the review committee. Handwritten abstracts will not be reviewed. GHEC requests that the principal author serve as a designated presenter of the poster at the conference.
Students are encouraged to submit an abstract; the abstract should include a letter of support from a faculty mentor whose name should be listed with the authors. Letters of support must be received by October 5, 2007.
By Mail :
GHEC Secretariat
Conf 2006 Poster Abstracts
305 West Broadway #332
New York, NY 10013
By Email: info@globalhealth-ec.org
Subject Line: 2008 GHEC Conference - Abstracts - Letter of Recommendation
For more information contact the GHEC Secretariat at: info@globalhealth-ec.org.
The number of submissions accepted is determined by quality and limited by the space available for presentation at the meeting site (in past meetings this has averaged 40-50). All abstracts containing the required information and submitted by the October 5th deadline will be reviewed.
