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Health and Well Being: Research, Practice and Politics, June 5, call for
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Please share the following call for abstracts with students who may be
interested in the opportunity to present their research. Thank you.
Call for Abstracts
Deadline: May 1st 2009
Health and Well Being:
Research, Practice and Politics
June 5th, 2009
York University
The goal of this conference is to provide a venue for students of York
University, as well as other universities, to present their work and to
exchange ideas on a broad range of issues related to health and well
being.
Submissions are encouraged from students conducting health-related
research in
all disciplines.
The conference is sponsored by the Lillian Wright Maternal-Child Health
Scholars
Program, the York Institute for Health Research, and the Ontario Women?s
Health
Council Chair in Women?s Mental Health Research.
Keynote Speakers include:
Leslie Atkinson
Professor, Department of Psychology, Ryerson University
Pat Campbell
CEO, Echo: Improving Women?s Health in Ontario
Notisha Massaquoi
Executive Director, Women?s Health in Women?s Hands (Community Health
Centre)
Themes include but are not limited to: women?s mental health; mother-child
interactions; children and attachment; the social determinants of health;
biophysiological aspects of health; health policy; health, social
inclusion,
and social justice; and health promotion with diverse communities.
Guidelines for presenters: Abstracts for oral or poster presentations
should be
no longer than 300 words. On the abstract submission pages attached,
please
provide your name, institutional affiliation, program of study,
department/discipline, contact details and a brief biography (no more than
50
words). Please email the completed abstract form to [log in to unmask] by
May
1st 2009.
For more information and to submit an abstract, please email:
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