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Canadian Public Health Association

Keyword Categories

We invite submissions that facilitate the exchange and dissemination of innovative public health research, policies and practices. Our goal is to present an integrated scientific program that encourages participants and presenters to connect, share and learn from each other.

As part of the online submission process, you will be asked to identify the one (1) keyword category that best suits the overarching theme of your submission. 

1. Collaboration, Communications, and Education

  • Communications
  • Knowledge translation and exchange methodology 
  • Partnerships and collaboration
  • Pedagogy

2. Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases

  • Antimicrobial resistance prevention
  • Communicable diseases
  • COVID-19
  • Immunization
  • Infection control
  • Noncommunicable diseases

3. Data, Technology, and Systems

  • Data and information management and analysis
  • Digital health/emerging technologies
  • Epidemiology, surveillance, and biostatistics

4. Environmental and Occupational Health

  • Climate change and health
  • Eco-social perspectives/planetary health
  • Environmental and occupational health

5. Health Policy and Systems

  • Advocacy
  • Health systems
  • Policy development, implementation, or analysis
  • Program planning and evaluation
  • Systems approach

6. Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

  • Health promotion
  • Healthy eating/food security
  • Mental health
  • Physical activity
  • Sexuality and sexual health

7. Health Protection

  • Emergency preparedness and response
  • Epidemiology and biostatistics
  • Health protection
  • Injury and violence prevention
  • Substance use and harm reduction
  • Surveillance

8. Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, Métis) Health

9. Population Health and Health Equity

  • Anti-racism and anti-oppression
  • Child and adolescent health
  • Determinants of health
  • Global health
  • Healthy communities
  • Health equity
  • Healthy aging
  • Immigrant and refugee health
  • Reproductive and maternal health