Showcase your global health research 

Global Health Day organization commitee invites Master students, medical students, PhD-candidates, other researchers and clinicians to submit an abstract. Students who has recently started on their research project and therefore have no results to present, may instead submit a description of their project plans. See below for further instructions or contact Alex van Duinen if you have any questions.

Deadline: Abstract submission is September 20th 2023

Register your abstract

Abstract guidelines:

Abstracts will undergo peer review, and you will receive a response within 2 weeks after the deadline regarding acceptance and further instructions. There will be poster award for the best poster, with the winner receiving 2000 NOK as a travel stipend for presenting research at a national or international conference or for publishing an article.

Authorship:

Make sure that you accurately include all co-authors and their affiliations. If you are in doubt if a person should or should not be included as co-author, we recommend that you consult the so-called Vancouver recommendations.

Abstract body:

The abstract body should not exceed 2500 characters (including spaces) to fit on one page. We encourage organizing your abstracts in the IMRaD format [Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion], with a few sentences for each of these elements. Even if your global health study has started recently, or is ongoing, presenting preliminary results and/or project plans, including the aim, hypotheses, methods and possible implications, is encouraged. Footnotes or a literature list are optional.

Call for abstract (pdf file)