Author Guidelines

GUIDE FOR AUTHORS ON PREPARING ABSTRACT

• Prospective authors/ presenters  are invited to register as authors  ahead of submission of their abstract on the EPHA  conference web site.
• Abstracts should be submitted on line with the above website for a poster or oral presentation.
• Abstracts could  be  on  a) Reports  of    scientific study  and /or b) on  Program performance
• Abstracts on scientific research findings  should   include a statement of objectives, brief description of the study design including data collection method(s); analysis, summary of the results , conclusions and recommendations
• Abstracts on program performance, community level services, best experiences  reports etc. should contain  evidence based concise statements of:

1. A summary of the issue(s) addressed by the abstract
2. Description of the intervention, project, experience, service etc
3. Lessons learned: conclusions and implications of the intervention or project.
4. possible next steps for implementation, or recommendations.
5. In either case word count shouldn’t be more than 500 words

• Abstracts must be in English, single-spaced and Arial 12.
• Tables, figures, literature references, and acknowledgments should not form any part of the abstract’s content.
• The number of authors per abstract is unlimited. However, only one author can be listed as the presenting author.
• Begin the title of your submission in capital letters followed by name(s) and address (es) of author(s).Underline the name of the person presenting or replacement if presenter is not available.
• Present the text of the abstract on a separate page with its title.
• All acronyms must be defined.
• A completed author identification form must accompany abstract.
• Investigators should write their addresses and co-authors clearly on Author Identification Form.
• Abstracts presented at previous EPHA conference or similar conference should not be submitted.
• Submission of abstracts after deadline will not be accepted for review
• All received  abstracts will be reviewed independently by three  subject experts & evaluated according to the Scientific Review Format
• The review process is facilitated by EPHA secretariat and the Scientific Committee ( SC) .
• All received draft abstracts will be centrally registered (IT Team); assigned code number and clustered into any of the given  subject thematic area
• Authors are advised to register  their paper online   under one of the conference thematic areas that accommodates the subject area and title of their abstract.
• Eligibility :From among the selected abstracts of EPHA members, only those that are authored by EPHA Active members will be eligible.
• Authors will be notified whether their abstracts  are accepted or declined
• Accepted abstract will appear in its full form in the abstract book, and/or on the abstract CD-ROM and on the conference EPHA website.

Submissions for this conference were closed on 2021-01-27.