The Epidemiology and Evaluation track will focus on using data to identify and prioritize injury problems, describe program outcomes, and disseminate results. Topics will cover collecting and using injury data about American Indian and Alaska Native populations to identify and investigate trends and emerging injury problems and highlight program successes and challenges. Topics may include but are not limited to: 

• Indigenous evaluation approaches and methods 
• Examples of evaluability assessments in tribal communities 
• Examples of surveillance 
• Indigenous data sovereignty 
• Data visualization 
• Data linkages 
  • Measuring program outcomes with existing data or data collected through innovative or culturally tailored ways 
• Impact of COVID-19 on injury trends 
• Quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed methods evaluations

We are interested in presentations across topic areas, including both intentional and unintentional injuries. 

The Advancing Practice and Science in Violence Prevention track invites abstracts that address injury and violence prevention in American Indian and/or Alaska Native communities. Sessions will be dedicated to injury and violence prevention presentations. Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Adverse childhood experiences (such as child abuse and neglect/child maltreatment)
• Suicide and self-directed violence and self-harm (such as cutting or burning)
• Community violence, including youth violence 
• Sexual violence, intimate partner/teen dating violence
• Other topics such as Elder abuse and healing/traditional practices to prevent violence
• Public health approach to violence prevention

The Advancements and Practices in Unintentional Injury Prevention track will focus on preventive efforts and a variety of activities, resources, and initiatives that address the unintentional injuries that impact American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Motor vehicle crashes and child passenger safety
• Elder falls
• Drowning
• Traumatic brain injury
• Safe sleep
• Fire safety
• Other topics including rural transportation safety, impaired driving, and cold-water safety

The Opioid and Substance Use Disorder track will highlight best practices in prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and surveillance of opioid and substance use disorder. Opioid and substance use disorder prevention in tribal communities employs culturally appropriate strategies tailored to meet the unique needs of American Indian and Alaska Native populations. Abstracts topics may include:  

• Innovative opioid and substance use surveillance and response activities, such as linkage to care and other connections between community prevention programs and clinical settings
• Community perceptions of and community/culturally based approaches to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD); these presentations could focus on successes, challenges, overcoming barriers, or other topics
• Engaging healthcare providers such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists, or behavioral health providers and staff in community-based prevention programs
• Improving opioid and substance use data, including increasing collaboration between Tribes, Tribal Epidemiology Centers, local health departments, states, and federal entities

The Multidisciplinary Injury Prevention track will highlight and share preventive strategies and emerging issues or topics in American Indian and Alaska Native injury prevention. Injury prevention initiatives in tribal communities often employ innovative, unique, non-Western formats and creative strategies tailored to meet the diverse needs of American Indian and Alaska Native populations. Through a multidisciplinary lens, we want to capture and showcase the trailblazing work happening across American Indian and Alaska Native communities. 

Sessions in this track may include:  

• Programs, strategies, and cultural practices that address multiple topic areas in tribal injury prevention

• Innovative injury prevention approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Use of technology and social media efforts such as digital storytelling, social media in tribal injury prevention programs, etc.
  • How to incorporate cultural practices and traditional healing practices into injury prevention efforts
• How to publish, present, or showcase injury prevention work
• Planning strategies that can be universal or adaptable in injury prevention and safety efforts
• Other topics that are not listed elsewhere in the call for abstracts