LATINO CAUCUS CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
136th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association
October 25-29, 2008
Public Health Without Borders
San Diego, CA

The Scientific Program Subcommittee of the APHA Latino Caucus invites students, educators, researchers, health professionals, and community members to submit their research, practice, and policy findings for dissemination at the annual conference. We are looking for scientific papers that address the issues affecting Latinos with a particular focus on this year's conference theme of public health without borders. Caucus members have identified several sub-themes that will be organized and presented as either an oral presentation, roundtable discussion or poster session. Electronic submission is required (http://www.apha.org/meetings) and the deadline is February 4, 2008.

• Aging Across the Border: Health of Immigrants Who Are Now Elders in the U.S.
• Community Service Engagement: Getting Rid of the Town vs. Gown Dichotomy
• Crossing the Border: The Cost/Impact on the Health System
• Culture, Acculturation and Access to Health Care
• Diversity among Latino Communities and the Implications on Health
• Health Care for Children of Migratory Latino Families
• Immigration as an Asset to Healthy Community Growth
• Infections and International Migration: Diseases that Enter (or Leave) through the U.S. Borders
• Language as Boundary to Communication About Health

During the scientific sessions, the Scientific Program committee of the Latino Caucus will strive to create a collaborative environment where researchers, educators, students, and community members discuss the lessons learned from their work. We encourage both new and well-established researchers to join us in recognizing the importance of using evidenced-based approaches to inform our research, practice, and policy efforts.

If you are new to this process, please visit the Latino Caucus website in early January to view sample abstracts and instructions on how to build a set of objectives. If you are unsure which theme best fits your work, please select the most appropriate. Also, please note that all abstracts are peer-reviewed and evaluated using the following criteria:
• Clarity of presentation: statement of problem, relevance, methods, results, and conclusions;
• Quality and completeness of reported findings;
• Originality and implications of findings to research, practice, and/or policy

We strongly encourage students to submit their abstracts, and to indicate their student status in the appropriate checkbox. We will select the best student abstract for recognition at our annual dinner/dance! For more information contact the program planners: Patricia Documet and Michael Gerardo.