2018 VYTP Conference
Virginia Forum on Youth Tobacco Use:
Translating Research into Practice and Policy
Call for Posters
A poster session will be held in conjunction with the reception on the evening of the first day of the conference, March 21, 2018, from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm. This is a perfect opportunity to present your research on the causes and prevention of youth tobacco use, including preliminary findings of research in progress or conceptual models that may be tested through future research. The poster session is open to all university faculty and students, public agency staff, and VFHY grantees.
The poster session will also include a Student Poster Award competition that is open to all undergraduate and graduate students. To be eligible, you must be a student and indicate in your submission that you wish to participate Student Poster Award. During the poster session, posters will be judged by a panel of experts and the winner will be announced during the conference welcome on March 22, 2018. There will be two awards of $200 each.
Appropriate topics for poster presentations are research covering the broad spectrum of methods and approaches related to increasing our understanding and improving the prevention of youth tobacco use. Thus, poster presentations may include basic research including the biological and behavioral mechanisms associated with tobacco use and nicotine dependence; measurement research, including the development of new instruments to assess the processes and outcomes of preventive interventions; clinical research, including the translation of basic research into new interventions and testing the efficacy of interventions with new populations; epidemiological research, including genetic epidemiology and studies to determine the incidence and prevalence of youth tobacco use and addiction in Virginia and among specific subpopulations; and services research, including the financing and organization of services, effectiveness studies, and the studies of effective methods for disseminating science-based interventions.
Submissions will be reviewed for appropriateness (i.e., they must address a topic related to the etiology and/or prevention of youth tobacco use as described above). All appropriate submissions will be accepted if received by the submission due date of February 26, 2018.
For consideration, the primary affiliation of all persons submitting an abstract must be a university, public agency or VFHY grantee.
To submit a proposal for a poster presentation, send a brief (no more than 300 words) abstract of the poster presentation along with a listing of authors and their institutional affiliation to Dr. Randy Koch at . The subject line of the e-mail should be the name of the first author followed by the words “VYTP Poster Presentation.” You will be notified of the acceptance of your poster presentation no later than March 5, 2018. At that time you will be given guidelines for the preparation of the poster and an abstract to be included in the conference agenda.
If you have any questions about the poster session, please contact Dr. Koch at (804) 828-8633.