Call for Abstracts

The acceptance results and presentation format (oral/poster) will be announced on 30^th September 2025.

The conference will be held on 18-20 November 2025. Your presentation will be assigned either 19 or 20 November.

Authors are required to select one of the following 12 categories that best aligns with the topic of their abstract:

1. Public Health in on Disaster Health Management
   Objective: To identify potential activities on public health which should be tackled in DHM through sharing any public health issues including emerging diseases outbreak/pandemics (PHE), shelter management and infection control during disaster response, cases of appropriate actual practices of public health conducted during disaster responses and applicable knowledge/experiences of DHM to the PHE.
2. Human Resource Development in Disaster Health Management
   Objective: To share the experiences for the education/training/exercise development on DHM and to identify problems and challenges as well as to discuss necessary strategies for the improvement and introduction of education curriculum/ training on DHM.
3. Regional Collaboration Mechanism for Disaster Health Management
   Objective: To discuss the challenges for regional collaboration on DHM and perspectives to be considered for further development of a regional mechanism.
4. Multidisciplinary/Interprofessional Work (IPW) in Disaster Health Management
   Objective: To share the perceptions of the effectiveness and impact of multidisciplinary/ IPW and collaborative healthcare teamwork in DHM.
5. Policy development for Disaster Health Management
   Objective: To discuss on the progress or/and challenges on policy development and implications for enhancement of DHM capacity and disaster risk management framework and preparedness, including the country effort to achieve the POA-ALD on DHM such as SOP development for in-country coordination for the disaster response, EMTCC establishment and so on.
6. Health Care Workers’ Safety and Well-Being in Disaster Health Management
   Objective: To exchange the insights regarding a health management and welfare for the health workforce in DHM including human resource management in disaster response, critical incident stress management and PTSD, burnout syndrome, stress release and trauma care for the workforce, effect of briefing and debriefing session, and any issues arise.
7. Psychosocial and Psychological Support in Disaster Health Management
   Objective: To discuss improving the psychosocial and psychological support in DHM through practices and experiences, including the psychological first aid, immediate and long-term interventions support, mental health, and any issues arise.
8. Data Management in Disaster Health Management
   Objective: To discuss the data Management and reporting in DHM in the region, in-country development or implication of disaster data management tools and techniques, utilization of a data to the decision-making during the actual disaster response/recovery, and any issue arise.
9. Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) and Prehospital Management
   Objective: To share the insights to manage a prehospital care and emergency medical service including MCI and mass gathering, implications of prehospital care and EMS system in disaster, first-responder education and training, and so on.
10. Safe and Resilient Health Facilities and Infrastructure
    Objective: To discuss the experiences and practices on safe health facilities project or strategies in ASEAN Member States, challenges to adapt the tools for assessing health facilities safety and develop the resilient health facilities and infrastructure.
11. Logistics and Supply Chain Management
    Objective: To share the insights regarding the importance of logistics and supply management in disaster response and preparedness, stockpile management, effective distributions of relief supplies, and logistics for the team operations in disaster responses.
12. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)
    Objective: To integrate DRR and CCA strategies is crucial for building resilient communities. This session will explore the synergies between DRR and CCA, focusing on how these approaches can be effectively combined to enhance overall resilience and sustainability in the ASEAN region.

The types of the abstract submission are following categories:

1. Original Research
2. Research Review (including Systematic Reviews, Meta-Analyses, Scoping Reviews, Narrative Review),
3. Case Study
4. Field Reports/Project Report, and

All authors must submit the abstracts by using the official submission form provided in this guideline. If your abstract is being recommended by the AANDHM member institute/organization, the recommendation statement must be completed and included in the submission form.

Instructions for Abstract Submission:

• Word limit: Abstracts must not exceed 300 words (excluding the title, authors, and affiliations) in English language.
• File format: abstract file must be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx) using Time New Roman font.
• Structure: The abstract should be structured with the following components:
  • Introduction (including objective)
  • Method
  • Result
  • Conclusion and recommendation

  However, the abstracts submitted as Field Reports and Case Reports will be summaries including introduction and conclusion.

• Key word: Provide 3-5 keywords that best represent the content of the abstract.

Additional Requirement:

• Abstract should not contain any figures or tables.
• A corresponding author must be designated with a valid email address. The corresponding author will also serve as the presenter at the conference. The corresponding author does not need to be the first author.
• All submitted abstracts must be original and unpublished. Any abstracts that violate copyright laws or contain plagiarized content will be rejected.
• The abstract previously submitted and accepted at another conference are considered eligible for submission. However, the final decision on acceptance will be made by the Scientific Committee of the conference.

Authors are required to select a preferred presentation format for submitting the abstracts. Please note that detailed instructions for preparing presentation materials such as a slide format of oral presentation and size of poster presentation will be provided after the selection process is completed by the committee.

1) Oral presentation

Oral Presentation format will be approximately 10 minutes long, followed by a question and answer session. PowerPoint slide presentations are expected to display the research and findings.

2) Poster presentation

Presenters will display a printed poster in the exhibition space. A dedicated poster session will be held each day of the conference that presenters will be able to present the posters, answer questions, and engage with delegates.

Abstract must have proper ethical clearance which involving human or animal subjects comply with the Declaration of Helsinki. However, if the study is not involved these subjects, the abstract will be waived from submitting the certificate. Please state in the submission format.

All submitted abstracts will be reviewed and evaluated by the Scientific Committee with the following criteria.

• Completeness: Evaluate whole abstract structure and contents
• Quality of Research: Evaluate relevancy with the topics, contribution to practical and problem solving, ethical consideration, English proficiency and so on.