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Call for Abstracts: Health Disparities and Social Justice Poster Competition


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Pitt's Schools of the Health Sciences invite graduate, doctoral, postdoctoral trainees and first-professional students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to submit abstracts describing their research or interventions on health disparities or social justice. This annual competition gives students and trainee researchers an opportunity to present their work and expand their scientific professional skill set.

Deadline to submit your work

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Presentations

Thursday, March 25, noon-4 p.m.

Open to Pitt graduate or professional students, and postdoctoral trainees conducting qualitative, quantitative, translational, or basic research, or conducting community-based interventions addressing health disparities or social justice. 

$100 prizes awarded in four categories: master's, doctoral, postdoctoral, and first professional. Submit your abstract in PDF format to: diversity@hs.pitt.edu. Abstract decisions will be communicated by March 15. 

The Purpose

Health disparities adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health based on their race or ethnicity; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; ability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location, etc. Social justice addresses systemic change and equality of opportunity. 

The term "disparities" applies to differences in health status in any studied population compared to the comparable majority (or more commonly studied) population. "Social justice" is the view that everyone deserves equal economic, political, and social rights and opportunities. 



1/28/2022
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