Society for Prevention Research 31st Annual Meeting
CALL FOR PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

The Role of Prevention Science in Achieving Social Justice and Health Equity for All

May 30 - June 2, 2023
Preconference Workshops - May 30, 2023
Hyatt Regency, Washington, DC

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2022

The Program Committee of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) invites proposals for preconference workshops to be held Tuesday, May 30, 2023, the first day of the SPR Annual Meeting. The workshops are primarily pedagogical, with hands-on instruction and specific learning objectives. Past workshops have provided continuing education in innovative quantitative methods; assembled experts to share theoretical perspectives, research findings, and real-world implementation experiences that can inform the field of prevention science; and presented information helpful in advocacy and/or grant writing efforts. These are intended as examples to stimulate creative thinking about potential workshop topics and approaches. The Program Committee encourages workshop proposals on any topic, as long as the workshop’s objective is to enable the audience to gain skills and knowledge that are important to prevention scientists.

Workshops typically are a full day in length. SPR will provide a suitable room and audiovisual equipment and will reproduce handouts if they are provided far enough in advance.

The SPR Training Committee will select four to five workshops on a diverse set of topics from the submitted proposals. All topics will be considered but priority will be given to workshops that will address topics informed by the work of the SPR Training Needs Assessment Task Force (TNATF), which completed a two-year project that surveyed the SPR membership and other stakeholders on the training needs of prevention scientists (Chilenski et al., 2020; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11121-020-01151-1). Based on the work of the TNATF and this year’s conference theme, the following training needs have been identified as priorities for the 2023 preconference workshops: (1) applying innovative study designs (e.g., adaptive intervention design), technology (e.g., e-health) and/or analytic approaches (e.g., causal inference) in prevention science research to enhance understanding of health equity and inequities; (2) research approaches that enable a better understanding of the synergistic effects and intersectionality of multiple social determinants of health and their underlying mechanisms; and (3) novel approaches (e.g., co-creation) to partnering with communities and other non-academic partners throughout the prevention science research process

In addition to the areas identified by the TNATF, we are also interested in proposals that address ethical issues in bringing prevention programs into community settings, i.e., how to develop ethical partnerships with historically disadvantaged communities, how to ethically conduct evaluations of prevention programs in communities, issues of privacy in an era of big data access, etc. (Leadbeater et al., 2018; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11121-018-0912-7 ).

Workshop proposals will be evaluated using the following criteria: clarity of workshop objectives; value of the topic to the field of prevention science; relevance to the conference theme(s), TNATF-identified theme(s) and/or ethical issues in prevention science; likelihood that the content and methods of the workshop will impart knowledge and/or skills successfully; relevant background of presenters; lack of redundancy with recently presented workshops. (Click here for workshop history.)

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