Teaching and Learning Forum
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Closing Monday, June 15, 2026
The CAPHIA Forum Scientific Committee are pleased to call for abstracts for the 2026 Teaching and Learning Forum, hosted by Curtin University Perth November 12 and 13. Find out more about the Forum.
Oral Presentation
15 minutes (12 minutes presentation + 3 minutes Q&A)
Oral Presentations are didactic sessions designed to share public health education innovations and scholarship-informed practice with the CAPHIA community.
Presenters are expected to provide:
· Background and context
· Aim and purpose of the project or initiative
· Methodology and/or innovation
· Discussion points: the key implications and insights gleaned
· Lessons learned and key take-home messages.
Challenge Rooms
30 minutes (5 minutes presentation, 20 minutes exploration, 5 minutes playback)
Challenge Rooms are fast-paced ideation sessions designed to enable participants to challenge the community of practice to work together to find solutions. Submit a challenge that you experience and for which you would value some solutions.
The intent behind challenge rooms is to collaboratively problem solve a public health education challenge that you have tried to address and need some fresh ideas and perspectives.
As a Challenge Room presenter, you are expected to:
· Introduce the challenge (5 mins maximum)
Describe the learning and teaching challenge you want explored by our community of practice in small groups.
o Examples may include: an assessment strategy that you need some feedback on; an innovation that needs some input; problems with academic integrity or student engagement; educational challenges, i.e., identifying suitable tutors or makers, or aligning industry needs with teaching
o Share what you have tried so far. Set the challenge for participants to solve your problem.
· Set the Challenge (20 minutes)
Outline ONE clear question posed to participants to rapidly explore solutions.
We encourage use of real-time data capture and feedback mechanisms (e.g. padlet, mentimentre etc.)
· Summaries the ideas (5 minutes)
Feedback what you heard and what you will do next.
Solution Rooms
40 minutes (5-10 minutes presentation, 25-30 minutes interactive, 5-10 minutes discussion and conclusion)
Solution rooms are interactive sessions designed to generate collaborative discussion and build professional networks. Your Solution Room topic should facilitate exploration of a relevant public health education challenge with practical and transferable solutions, allowing participants to learn from your experience and consider its application to their own context.
As a Solution Room presenter, you are expected to:
· Present your problem and solution (5-10 mins)
§ Briefly describe a real-world public health education challenge you have faced and its relevance to the community of practice.
§ Demonstrate what you did to address this challenge, and how you arrived at your solution.
· Facilitate robust, reciprocal, and inclusive discussion (25-30 mins)
§ Deliver a practical activity that will help equip others to translate and apply your solution to their own practice
· Discussion and Conclusion (5-10 minutes)
§ Outline key learning outcomes and a clear takeaway message
§ Way forward / where to from here