Abstracts

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.

Oral Presentation Abstracts will be selected on the basis of the assessment rubric:

1. Alignment to the Forum theme and streams
2. Novelty, creativity and innovation
3. Clarity and quality of the submission
4. Relevance and transferability of the presentation to the wider community of practic

Challenge Room

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 (3 mins maximum)
  • Describe the learning and teaching challenge you want explored by our community of practice in small groups.
    • Example may include: an assessment strategy that you need some feedback on; an innovation that needs some input; problems with academic integrity orstudent engagement; educational challenges i.e.. identifying suitable tutors or makers, or aligning industry needs with teaching
    • Share what have you tried so far. Set the challenge for participants to solve your problem.
• Set the Challenge (25 minutes)
  • Outline a clear question posed to participants to rapidly explore solutions.
• Summarise the ideas (2 minutes)
  • Feedback what you heard and what you will do next.

Challenge Room Abstracts will be selected on the basis of the assessment rubric: 

1. Alignment to the Forum theme and streams
2. Quality, novelty and innovation of the challenge (SoTL)
3. Clarity of the challenge room question.
4. Relevance and transferability of the solution to the wider community of practice

Solution Room

40 minutes (5-10 minutes presentation, 25-30 minutes exploration, 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 relevan public health education challenge with practical and transferrable 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 respectful, reciprocal, and inclusive discussion (30-35 mins)
• Deliver a practical activity which will help equip others to translate and apply
• your solution to their own practice
• Outline key learning outcomes and a clear take-away message

Solution Room Abstracts will be selected on the basis of the assessment rubric:

1. Alignment to the Forum theme and streams
2. Quality, novelty and innovation of the solution (SoTL)
3. Relevance and transferability of the solution to the wider community of practice
4. Clarity and quality of the teaching activities and relevance to the solution.

KEY DATES

Submissions close: Monday June 15, 2026

Format: Abstracts must be submitted via the relevant form. Emailed abstracts will not be accepted.

Abstract outcomes: On or before August 3, 2026

Presenter registration deadline: August 17, 2026