Call For Submissions: Due July 15, 2025, 5pm EDT
Academy on Violence and Abuse 2025 Global Health Summit
Building on 20 Years of AVA Success: Fostering Innovation for a Safe and Healthy Future
November 6-7, 2025
Join us in-person in Salt Lake City, Utah or virtually
The 2025 Global Health Summit will provide a collegial interprofessional environment for networking and sharing advances in health education, advocacy, prevention, and research on trauma-informed practice when caring for people impacted by interpersonal, family, and/or community violence and abuse.
AVA welcomes professionals and trainees from all disciplines who are interested in advancing approaches to preventing, identifying, and responding to violence and abuse in our communities. AVA will accept submissions across all aspects of violence and abuse and will prioritize these key areas of interest in 2025:
- Advocacy and Policy Development
- Community Engagement and Empowerment
- Health Professional Education, Training, and Mentoring
- Interpersonal Violence – Child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and elder abuse
- Prevention
Submission Categories and Directions
Please use the required templates on page 2 for instructions based on your submission type.
Scientific Abstracts: 15-minute session to include 10-minute oral presentations and 5-minutes of audience questions, or poster sessions reporting the results of original research; must contain quantitative and/or qualitative data.
Seminar: 30-minute session to include 20-minute presentation and 10-minutes of audience questions designed to share knowledge on topic of interest or program.
Workshop: 90-minute session designed to provide knowledge and develop take-home skills for attendees – may include small group discussion, role plays, or other active learning.
For more information, Contact: AVA via phone 952-974-3270 or email: connor@avahealth.org
The submission deadline is July 15, 2025, 5 PM EDT. Notification of acceptance is August 30, 2025.
Instructions: Please use the template format and headings below to structure your submission. Please only include the bolded headings in your submission; remove all other non-bolded instructions. Save as either a word document or a PDF before emailing your file. Email your file to connor@avahealth.org
*Note: we will do our best to accommodate your preferred presentation format, but based on submissions received, we may offer a format other than what you initially selected.
Scientific Abstract submission template:
Title: Please use proper title formatting; do not use all caps or quotation marks. Dashes (-) are acceptable.
Presenting author: (include name, title and affiliation)
Presenter’s Email:
Co-authors: (include names, titles and affiliations)
Key area of interest: Advocacy and Policy Development, Community Engagement and Empowerment, Health Professional Education, Training, and Mentoring, Interpersonal Violence – Child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and elder abuse, Prevention
Preferred format*: oral, poster, either (no preference)
Abstract: (limit text to 400 words, excluding title and authors)
Background: Describe the context and importance of the study and state the objective(s) and/or hypothesis(es) and/or research question(s) of the study.
Methods: Include a description of the methods used including study design, setting, population, measures, and analytic procedures.
Results: Describe results in sufficient detail to support the conclusions. Tabular/graphic results are acceptable.
Conclusions: State the implications of the findings for clinical practice, research, education, and/or policy.
Seminar submission template:
Title:
Presenter(s): (include name, title and affiliation)
Presenter’s Email:
Relation to Meeting Theme: (30 words max) How will the presentation relate to the 2025 GHS theme of “Building on 20 Years of AVA Success: Fostering Innovation for a Safe and Healthy Future”?
Key area of interest: (indicate one) Health Professional Education, Training, and Mentoring, Advocacy and Policy Development, Community Engagement and Empowerment, or Interpersonal Violence, Other
Session summary: (limit to 250 words) Please describe details of how the 30 minutes will be used. Seminars should include 20 minutes of presentation followed by 10 mins for Q&A.
Learning Objectives (2-3):
Workshop submission template:
Title:
Presenter(s): (include name, title and affiliation)
Presenter’s Email:
Relation to Meeting Theme: (limit to 30 words) How will the presentation relate to the 2025 GHS theme of “Building on 20 Years of AVA Success: Fostering Innovation for a Safe and Healthy Future”?
Key area of interest: (indicate one) Health Professional Education, Training, and Mentoring, Advocacy and Policy Development, Community Engagement and Empowerment, or Interpersonal Violence, Other
Session summary (limit to 250 words): Please describe details of how the 90 minutes will be used.
Workshops should include active learning by participants, such as small group discussions, role plays, skills practice, large group discussions, etc.
Learning Objectives (2-3):
