Criteria for Consideration

• The abstract must contribute to the overall Presidential Priority: Equipping epidemiologists to practice epidemiology with rather than on communities.
• The project, analysis, surveillance, or outbreak response must demonstrate a process that engaged community partners throughout
• Applied epidemiology practice was used to describe the social context in which the disease outcomes occurred
• Interventions to protect the health of the community were community-driven

Criteria for Selecting the Award Recipient

• The abstract must contribute to the overall Presidential Priority: Equipping epidemiologists to practice epidemiology with rather than on communities.
• The presenter must be from a state, territorial, tribal, or local health department; federal employees are not eligible
• Abstract must be selected to present an oral presentation, roundtable, or poster. Late-breaker abstracts are not eligible.

Criteria for Consideration

The abstract must contribute to the overall Presidential Priority: Addressing law enforcement involved fatal encounters and non-fatal injuries (LEIFE) as a public health issue.

• Developing surveillance systems to measure LEIFE;
• Describing the epidemiology of LEIFE, including local trends;
• Conducting analyses of law enforcement suicides;
• Working with communities to establish LEIFE reviews;
• Developing community-based approaches to address LIEFE harms and consider prevention strategies; and
• Evaluating the impact of policy changes or other public health approaches towards LEIFE.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a bright light on health disparities. We encourage abstracts on identifying and describing a feasible, successful and sustainable approach that improves the health of racial and ethnic minorities and narrows disparities. These abstracts are eligible for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Award for Outstanding Epidemiology Practice in Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities.

Two additional Presidential Priorities for 2021-2022 are best practices for a sustainable and resilient public health workforce and a strategic plan for data modernization. Narrowing the gap on health disparities, strengthening the public health workforce and data modernization support the CSTE strategic plan for 2021-2022.

Criteria for Selecting the Award Recipient

• Contribute to improved public health response to address law enforcement involved fatal encounters and non-fatal injuries (LEIFE).
• Presenter/presenters must be from a state, territorial, tribal, or local health department; federal employees are not eligible.
• Abstract must be selected to present and oral presentation; roundtable, poster, and late-breaker abstracts are not eligible.

Criteria for Consideration

• The abstract must contribute to the overall Presidential Priority and in support of the Strategic Goal(s): Demonstrating improved public health effectiveness by bridging connections not previously made.
• The abstract must exemplify a partnership between surveillance systems, data sources and/or colleagues.
• Contribute to improved public health partnerships and connections that are new efforts.

Criteria for Selecting the Award Recipient

• Project, surveillance, or outbreak response must show collaboration between states and data must be used to support this partnership.
• Presenter/presenters must be from a state, territorial, tribal, or local health department; federal employees are not eligible.
• Abstract must be selected to present and oral presentation; roundtable, poster, and late-breaker abstracts are not eligible.

Criteria for Consideration

• The abstract must contribute to the overall Presidential Priority: Co-develop infectious and non-infectious disease surveillance initiatives, which is one of CSTE’s strategic goals in the 2018-2020 Strategic Plan.
• The abstract must exemplify partnership and participation between infectious and non-infectious disease entities on an outbreak or surveillance initiative showing a use of data that supports cross-disciplinary partnership.
• The project should demonstrate a harmonized response with the best use of available tools.

Criteria for Selecting the Award Recipient

• Project, surveillance, or outbreak response must show collaboration between states and data must be used to support this partnership.
• Presenter/presenters must be from a state, territorial, tribal, or local health department; federal employees are not eligible.
• Abstract must be selected to present and oral presentation; roundtable, poster, and late-breaker abstracts are not eligible.

Criteria for Consideration

The abstract must contribute to the overall 2018-19 Presidential Priority: Teamwork and collaboration without borders.

• Encourage workforce diversity—not only in gender and race/culture but also across disciplines/subject matter areas—to assure a uniformly robust and diverse epidemiology workforce; or
• Strengthen collaborative infectious and non-infectious surveillance initiatives—to assure consistency and coordination in operations, standards, and systems as well as advance electronic data exchange systems through the combined knowledge, experience, and efforts of all areas; or
• Foster and enhance critical external partnerships—to strengthen support for and recognition of CSTE’s mission and all public health initiatives as key to healthy communities.

Criteria for Selecting the Award Recipient

• Must demonstrate major contribution/involvement by multiple epidemiological subject areas, especially infectious and non-infectious (at least one infectious and one non-infectious program area) as well as close and considerable collaboration with key external partners (at least one external public health partner)
• Presenter must be from a state, territorial, tribal, or local health department; federal employees are not eligible.
• Abstract must be selected to present an oral presentation, roundtable, or poster. Late-breaker abstracts are not eligible.

Criteria for Consideration

Impact of the work in the field to advance the designated 2017-18 Presidential Priority: Advance the use informatics to further 1. health equity or 2. public health response to events of high consequence.

• Often the human element is lost in the technical description of informatics.
• Focus on the human side of informatics to allow people to engage who are not trained in the field to understand how the application of informatics mattered.
• Improve the ability to tell the story of how informatics mattered. How did informatics help people and ultimately lead to improve health outcomes?
• Contribution/translation to practice

Criteria for Selecting the Award Recipient

• The abstract must contribute to the Presidential Priority: Advance the use informatics to further 1. health equity or 2. public health response to events of high consequence.
• The presenter must be from a state, territorial, tribal, or local health department; federal employees are not eligible
• The abstract must be selected for acceptance to the annual conference as an oral presentation