Abstracts are now being accepted for the Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses Symposium (CPHAZ) on Thursday, May 28.
The Symposium offers a jam-packed day of presentations, posters and networking on a range of public health research areas.
There is a vast range of research and work happening in all areas of zoonotic disease, water and food safety, and every aspect of public health from the human, animal and environmental perspective, from molecule to population. CPHAZ is striving to capture a mix of these topics and welcomes researchers to submit abstracts to showcase their projects. Abstract submission will be open until April 30, 2015. There is no limit to the number any person can submit, but there are limited speaker slots.
Graduate students submitting an abstract will have the option to present their research with a poster and take part in the interactive poster session (3 minute presentation). Posters/research topics can be any public health related theme. MSc, PhD, MPH and DVSc are all encouraged to submit an abstract for their poster. If a student chooses to display a poster, but not take part in the interactive poster session, they will not be eligible for the graduate student presentation awards. CPHAZ is offering to print posters for students who may not have funding for this, please indicate this requirement on your abstract submission form.
To submit an abstract or to register visit the Symposium website.
Keynote speakers at this year’s Symposium will be Drs. Gerry Wright and Allison McGeer. Dr. Wright is the Director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University, and also holds a chair position in Infection and Anti-Infective Research for Antibiotic Biochemistry.
Dr. McGeer is Mount Sinai Hospital’s Director of Infection Control. Her experience in infection and disease outbreak is vast, from influenza to the SARS outbreak in 2003 to her current work through the World Health Organization to fight the Ebola outbreak in Liberia.
As always this event is free and everyone is welcome to attend.