Submission Deadline: April 12, 2024, 12:00 PM Eastern Time.
Canadian Forces Health Services (CF H Svcs) personnel who are considering submitting an abstract must inform CFHS HQ Science and Technology at: cfhs-ssfc-s&t@forces.gc.ca prior to submission.
The Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research (CIMVHR) will be hosting its annual Forum from October 21-23, 2024, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
CIMVHR Forum provides an opportunity for researchers to showcase emerging research to academics, practitioners, government officials, and policy makers. Researchers are invited to submit abstracts for consideration for both oral and poster presentations related to military, Veteran, public safety personnel and their family’s health and well-being. Areas of focus include, but are not limited to:
Health Care Systems, Policies and Defence
- Canadian Armed Forces Health Care Priorities
- NATO and Global Affiliates Health Care Priorities
- Emerging Global Health Threats
- Environmental Exposure and Impacts
- Global Political Crisis
- Policies, Best Practices and Guidelines
Mental Health
- PTSD, Moral Injury and other Mental Health Concerns (including Depression and Anxiety)
- Suicide Prevention
- Psychiatric Medications, Cannabinoids and Psychedelics
- Addictions
Service-Related Injury and Illness/Combat Care
- Musculoskeletal Injury
- Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Adaptive sports
- Amputation
- Chronic Pain
- Battlefield Medicine
- Operational Stress Injury
Integrated Health Approaches
- Physical and Mental Co-Morbidities
- Program Development, Implementation and Evaluation
- Personalized Medicines
Well-Being
- Career and Life Course Transitions
- Frailty and Ageing Veterans
- Homelessness
- Family, Caregivers, Community Coping and Social Supports
- Transferred PTSD and Children’s Resilience
- Peer support
- Soldier and Veteran Identity
- Loneliness and Social Isolation
- Financial well-being, including spousal employment
Sex, Gender, EDI and Intersectionality
- Military Sexual Trauma
- Service Women’s Health
Technological advancement in military and Veteran health
- The role of AI in military medicine and Veteran health
- Development of decision aid tools
The program will enable participants to discuss and understand key research activities that can influence research development, policy development, programs, clinical practice, and implementation.
CIMVHR will accept research and program/intervention evaluation abstracts for poster , podium and symposia presentations from early February 2024 to April 12, 2024, 12:00 PM (Eastern Time). Abstract submissions will not be accepted thereafter.
For all inquiries about abstracts please contact Michelle Daigle at michelle.daigle@queensu.ca or by telephone 613.533.6000 ext. 75709.
The submission deadline has now closed.
- Note: Canadian Forces Health Services (CF H Svcs) personnel who are considering submitting an abstract must inform LCol Gary Johnston, SSO S&T, Canadian Forces Health Services Group HQ at gary.johnston2@forces.gc.ca prior to submission.
After abs close
The Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research (CIMVHR) will be hosting its annual Forum from October 16-18, 2023, in Ottawa-Gatineau.
CIMVHR Forum provides an opportunity for researchers to showcase emerging research to academics, practitioners, government officials, and policy makers. Researchers are invited to submit abstracts for consideration for both oral and poster presentations related to military, Veteran, public safety personnel and their family’s health and well-being. Areas of focus include, but are not limited to:
| Knowledge translation | Creative arts and/or recreation-based interventions/therapies |
| Population health | Peer support |
| Homelessness | Therapeutic use of psychedelics and other drugs |
| Women’s health | Cannabis and cannabinoids |
| Sex, gender, intersectionality | Opioids |
| Families | Addictions |
| Aging and long-term care | Personalized medicine |
| Military to civilian transition | Environmental and military exposures |
| Military medicine | COVID-19 |
| Military and Veteran adaptive sport | Chronic health conditions, disease burden |
| Veteran employment, education, volunteering | Prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal injuries |
| Public Safety Personnel | Chronic pain prevention/management |
| Cognitive assessment, processing, function | Prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury |
| Prevention and treatment of moral injury | Prevention and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder |
| Prevention and treatment of operational stress injury |
The program will enable participants to discuss and understand key research activities that can influence research development, policy development, programs, clinical practice, and implementation.
