CALL FOR AHEPP ANNUAL PRESENTATIONS

The AHEPP Annual Planning Committee invites public health, health care, disaster relief, emergency management, and other planning and preparedness professionals nationwide to present their best practices, research findings, or other resources that support moving preparedness forward in hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, long term care, residential care, home health, hospice, group home, nursing home, intermediate care facilities, public health departments, and other healthcare settings.

Applicable presentation topics may include:

• Business continuity
• Communication (social media, methods, lessons learned)
• Current research
• Exercise design and conduct
• Hazard vulnerability assessment
• Leadership in disasters
• Lessons learned/recent events
• Policies and procedures
• Regulations
• Training and testing
• Other

SESSION INFORMATION

• The sessions for AHEPP Annual 2018 are divided into three categories:

  • General Session – These one hour sessions are designed to provide attendees with 50 minutes of a high level overview of hot topics and emerging issues in healthcare preparedness and response planning and 10 minutes of a closing interactive discussion.
  • Breakout Session – These 50 minute sessions are designed to provide attendees with 40 minutes of hands-on demonstrations, simulations, or instruction and 10minutes of a closing interactive discussion.
  • Concurrent Session – This 120 minute session is designated for presentations and topics that require more time than one 50 minute session.

APPLICATION PROCESS

• The application deadline has been extended to May 1, 2018 (12:00 noon CST) .

• Applications may be submitted through this online form or you may email ahepp@ahepp.org for a manual form.

• Presenters will be notified of acceptance by June 1, 2018.

• Presenters must submit an electronic copy of all presentation materials by October 1, 2018.

• Presenters will receive conference registration fees for one presenter per accepted session.