Health Promotion Evaluation Award 2007

The Health Promotion Evaluation Award is sponsored by the PHAA Health Promotion SIG. It is an early career award to provide promising new contributors to the field with an opportunity to present their work at the National Public Health Association of Australia Conference. The spirit of this award is to encourage new researchers and practitioners to improve the practice of health promotion through evaluation.

The applicant must be:

• An individual (not organisational) financial member of the PHAA; and
• at an early career stage. No more than 5 years experience in health or within 3 years of a new career move into health promotion;
• a student or hold a relatively junior position at the beginning of a career in health promotion, evaluation and/or research on public health interventions.

The evaluation of a health promotion intervention presented by the applicant can have been completed alone or collaboratively. The work should have been completed within the last two years, and may have already been submitted for assessment as part of a university course.

The application will include an abstract of the health promotion evaluation (up to 250 words) and a paper of up to 1500 words (max 5 A4 pages, not including the Application Form) on the research to be presented at the Conference.
The paper should state the:

• Aims of the health promotion evaluation,
• Methods used,
• Results and Discussion, and
• Conclusions.

The applicant must be the senior author on the evaluation or aspect of the evaluation being reported on. If the project extends beyond health promotion evaluation, only the relevant component should be described.
Assessment criteria include:

• The quality and originality of the health promotion evaluation; and
• The quality of the presentation of the application, including readability and coherence.

The prize is a return flight from the applicant's airport nearest home, PHAA Conference registration, and three days accommodation. The paper will be presented at the 38th PHAA Annual Conference, M Bantua (Alice Springs), 23 -26 September 2007.

Please return your completed application and paper (preferably by email) to: Professor Peter Howat, PHAA Health Promotion SIG National Convenor p.howat@curtin.edu.au

OR
c/- Director, Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control
Division of Health Sciences
Curtin University
GPO Box U1987
Perth, W Australia 6845

The deadline for submission of an application is 23 March 2007.
Health Promotion Evaluation Award 2007 Application Form (PDF)

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