The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has issued a call for presenters for its 2018 Ounce of Prevention conference, to take place on Tuesday, March 27 at the DCU Center in Worcester.
This is a signature prevention-oriented gathering focused on building healthier and more equitable communities. This annual conference is designed to provide professional development and networking opportunities, along with tools, resources and practical skill-building sessions. The conference will feature a keynote speaker, workshops and
networking opportunities.
The focus of the annual conference is Working Together for Healthier and More Equitable Communities and you are invited to help shape the event by submitting a Workshop Session proposal. The planning committee is looking for examples of collaborative work to create healthier communities with a particular emphasis on the social determinants of health and initiatives that explicitly address racial and/or health inequities through program development/implementation, institutional/community systems change, or policy development based on best practices and developed through community engaged processes. The sessions should provide best practices, share resources, or facilitate discussion on innovative models and emphasize their feasible application and replication in communities across the Commonwealth.
Topics may include the following, but are not limited to:
- Community based interventions to address the Social Determinants of Health
- Socio-cultural environment
- Built/physical environment and healthy design
- Equitable, Safe and Healthy Housing
- Violence and trauma
- Employment
- Education
- Institutional and systematic racism and its impact on health
- Strategies to promote racial equity
- Community health across the lifespan
- Addressing the opioid epidemic through innovative, prevention-oriented strategies
- The role of community health in successful health care reform
- Using a Health in All Policies approach to change systems, policies and practices Social marketing and public health
- Sustainability and organizational capacity building to support community health
- Youth engagement and other innovative community engagement strategies and impacts
- Using policy, systems and environmental change strategies to explicitly address a health inequity
- Advocating for public health
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is Friday, December 22, 2017 at 11:59pm ET. Full details can be found here.