Research Week Poster Competition Guidelines

Eligibility: All CPH faculty, staff, post docs, and students enrolled in CPH or conducting public health research with a CPH faculty mentor are eligible.
Location: CPHB Atrium. A list of the posters and their assigned numbers will be available in the CPHB Atrium Tuesday, along with pushpins.
Rules: Posters must be posted by the session start time and presenters must be available to answer questions throughout. Judges are not required to wait for a missing presenter. Poster boards have a display area of approximately 4’9″ wide x 3’8″ high.

2023 Poster Session Dates

Oct. 31
Morning Session 9-11 a.m.
Afternoon Session 12:30-2:30 p.m.

Deadline

All posters must be registered by Oct. 19 at 5 p.m.

Awards & Judging Criteria

All posters require an abstract at the time of submission. There is a 250-word limit, excluding the title and authors. The abstract will be judged in conjunction with the poster. All posters will be eligible for a $250 collegiate poster award. Additionally sponsored awards will be available by the groups listed below.

To be considered for the following Sponsored awards, please select the appropriate categories during the submission process:

  • Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR)
    Criteria: HMP PhD student must be first author. Posters that address health services policy and or research, submitted by an HMP PhD student.
  • Clinical Trials Statistical & Data Management Center
    Posters should address some component of clinical trial design, methodology or implementation including data management, site management, analyses, and data sharing as well as dissemination of clinical trial results.
  • Global Public Health Initiative
    Criteria: Posters should address one of the following: research conducted outside the U.S., research in partnership with non-U.S. institutions and NGOs, or research involving immigrant and non-U.S. native communities living inside the U.S.
  • Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest
    Posters should address policies, programs, and practices that integrate protection from work-related safety and health hazards with promotion of injury and illness prevention efforts to advance worker well-being. The winning poster must address these efforts in order to be in support of the Center’s mission.
  • Institute for Public Health Practice, Research and Policy
    Criteria: Posters that show collaboration or translation of research to policy and or practice.
  • Institute for Public Health Practice
    Criteria: Posters should address research with a health equity focus.
  • Injury Prevention Research Center (IPRC)
    Criteria: Posters that address any area of injury or violence are eligible for this award.
  • Prevention Research Center for Rural Health
    Criteria: Poster that address health or the social determinants of health in rural communities.
  • RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy
    Criteria: Posters that address health services delivery or finance in rural places, submitted by a graduate student. Graduate student must be the first author.
  • State Health Registry of Iowa/Iowa Cancer Registry (SHRI/ICR)
    Criteria: Posters should address research designed to identify factors related to cancer etiology, prevention and control, survival, population science, and/or health services research related to cancer.
  • Undergraduate Public Health Poster
    Criteria: Must be submitted by a CPH Undergraduate Student. Posters should address public health research.
  • Research Week General Submission Poster
    Criteria: Posters that do not fit into any of the above categories, but showcase the work being done in CPH.