Call for Abstracts

SDMPH 10-year Anniversary Conference & Annual Meeting: 10 Years On: Building the Discipline of Disaster Medicine and Public Health

December 4-6, 2023

Submissions are closed, thank you to everyone who shared their abstracts with us.

Abstract Submission Guidelines

All abstracts will be fully peer-reviewed by the SDMPH conference organizing committee members. Abstract topics must follow session themes and the DMPHP Journal structured abstract format for Original Research, Brief Reports and Systematic Literature or Scoping Reviews.

All accepted (140) abstracts will be published Open Access in the DMPHP journal. There will be no charge for this service. Abstracts will be citable and will have a DOI once published

Abstracts must be submitted through Oxford Abstracts.  

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The Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (SDMPH) will hold its 10 Year Anniversary Conference and Annual Meeting at the American Geophysical Union Conference Center in Washington D.C. from Monday, December 4th through Wednesday,  December 6th (3 days). The objective is to provide a forum for those engaged in disaster risk reduction, disaster medicine response or recovery.

Conference session themes are:

A. Climate change (December 4 -Monday Morning): the effects on health and health care systems

1. Evacuation: health care facility evacuation in regions not accustomed to evacuating

2. Health effects of severe weather in regions not accustomed to heat waves, deep freeze, droughts, floods, etc.

3. Forest fires and population health

4. Disaster medicine adaptations for climate resilience

B. Conflict Medicine and Population Health (December 4 Monday Afternoon)

1. Prolonged transport to definitive care: Trauma Stabilization Points, advanced medical posts, etc.

2. Use of Ultrasound in Resource Scarce Environments: MCI, complex humanitarian events, conflict zones, low-middle income countries, prolonged transports

3. Advancement of civilian MCI response systems

C. Artificial Intelligence and advanced technology in Disaster Medicine (December 5 Tuesday Morning): Decision aids

1. AI and communication

2. AI and clinical guidelines

3. Advanced Communication from the MCI scene

4. AI and MCI response management

D. Artificial Intelligence in Disaster Medicine (Tuesday 5 Dec Afternoon): Device/Equipment

1. AI and disaster medicine ethical concerns

2. AI and MCI response: wristbands, drones, etc.

3. AI and MCI triage tools

4. Advanced MCI response simulation education

E. Education, Training and Competencies

All abstracts will be fully peer-reviewed by the SDMPH conference organizing committee members. Abstract topics must follow session themes and the DMPHP Journal structured abstract format for Original Research, Brief Reports and Systematic Literature or Scoping Reviews.

All accepted (140) abstracts will be published Open Access in the DMPHP journal. There will be no charge for this service. Abstracts will be citable and will have a DOI once published

Forty (40) abstracts will be featured posters for presentation during the following the session topics of the day, with twenty (20) presented Monday 4 December and twenty (20) presented Tuesday 5 December. Additionally, these forty (40) abstracts will be added to the existing one hundred (100) abstract posters on the virtual Oxford Abstracts platform.

For an abstract poster to be presented at the conference one author MUST be in attendance. Presentations on the virtual Oxford Abstract platform must also have one author in attendance, either live or virtual.

Successful applicants will be notified on a rolling basis depending on date of receipt to enable authors to arrange travel to the conference, with the final acceptances announced no later than 23:59 GMT-4, 6 November 2023.

If you are not sure if your abstract meets a conference theme, please contact Eric Weinstein, MD, MScDM at eswein402@gmail.com.