Submission Deadline: Tuesday April 15, 2025, 1:00 PM Eastern Time.
For detailed Terms and Conditions, please see: abstracts.cimvhr.ca/terms-and-conditions
The Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research (CIMVHR) will be hosting its annual Forum from October 20-22, 2025, in Ottawa, Ontario.
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 that will be double-blinded peer reviewed for consideration for both oral and poster presentations related to our four priority populations:
- Military serving members
- Veterans
- Public safety personnel (PSP)
- Families of military serving members, Veterans and public safety personnel
*Note: 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.
Areas of focus for this year’s Forum include, but are not limited to:
Research Practices
- Ethics
- Engagement, including community health principles
- Research design
- Knowledge translation
- Population differences and similarities
Health Care Systems, Policies and Defence
- Impact of emerging global health threats
- Health care resilience in the context of global political crises
- Policies, Best Practices and Guidelines
Mental Health
- PTSD, moral injury and other mental health concerns (including depression, anxiety, addictions, etc.)
- Suicidality and suicide prevention
- Pharmacological intervetions: psychiatric medications, cannabinoids and psychedelics
- ADHD and neurodiversity
Service-Related Injury and Illness/Combat Care
- Musculoskeletal injury
- Acquired brain injury and concussion
- Rehabilitation and recovery
- Adaptive sports
- Amputation
- Chronic pain
- Battlefield medicine
- Operational stress injury
- Environmental exposure
Integrated Health Approaches
- Physical and mental co-Morbidities
- Program development, implementation and evaluation
- Personalized medicines
- The Use of biometrics and biomarkers in research and treatment
- Measurement-based care
Health and Well-Being
- Career and life course transitions
- Ageing and frailty in Veterans
- Homelessness
- Family, caregivers, community coping and social supports
- Adult children of Veterans
- Secondary trauma
- Resiliency and other protective factors
- Peer support
- Military, Veteran, PSP and family Identity
- Loneliness and Social Isolation
- Grief and grieving
- Financial well-being, including spousal employment
Sex, Gender, EDI and Intersectionality
- Sexual trauma
- Service women’s health
- Health outcomes of Indigenous and racialized communities
- LGBTQ2S+ health
Technological advancement in military and Veteran Health
- The role of AI in military medicine and Veteran health
- Development of decision-aid tools
- Population data sets and big data Analysis
- Virtual reality and immersive technologies
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 policy, program/intervention or practical evaluation abstracts for poster , podium and symposia presentations from February 2025 to Tuesday April 15, 2025, 1:00 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.
