Welcome to the 7th Annual 2021 CHHD Research Day

Child Health and Human Development Research Day was conceived to provide the program members and guests information and updates about the research in the program, and initiate and reinforce collaborations.

Once again, to adapt our Research Day to the current health crisis, this event will be held entirely online as the safety and health of our members remain our top priority during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Accordingly, oral presentations will be held on Zoom. Poster presentations will be held on the Fourwaves virtual poster platform which allows poster sessions to be interactive. You'll be able to roam from poster to poster, see which posters have ongoing conversations and join them and ask your questions live to the presenter in a video conversation. Up to 8 people will be able to join the presenter for a virtual video discussion!

All CHHD members from the CTB, CORE, or CIM are invited to participate in this event! CHHD Trainees will be put forward as we want this event to be an opportunity for the CHHD community to show their results and receive feedback, and most of all, improve their communication skills which are essential for the success of any future researchers.

We are looking forward to seeing you at this virtual CHHD Research Day!

TO CONSULT THE RESEARCH DAY BOOKLET: CLICK HERE

Registration and Submissions

Registration

Deadline: Thursday, November 11th at 11:30 pm.

All attendees will need to register to have access to the program, abstracts, and the virtual poster platform.

Every presenter is required to register before submitting an abstract.

NOW CLOSED - Submissions - Abstracts

Extended Deadlines:

Oral presentation: Thursday, October 21th at 11:30 pm

Poster presentation: Sunday October 24th at 11:30pm

All presenters (trainees and research employees under the supervision of a CHHD appointed researcher) need to submit an abstract and select if they would prefer a poster or oral presentation. Communications by the Research Day committee will be sent out to presenters 3 days after the submission deadline informing them about the type of presentation they will be assigned.

Presentations will be judged and awards will be given to the best presentations of the day in each category!

Research employees are also invited to submit an abstract to present their work (poster format only)*

* Only poster and oral presentations by trainees will be considered for awards

Abstract requirements: 300 words

Poster and oral presentations

Oral presentations will be held on Zoom. The link will be provided in the Research Day booklet once available.

Presenters will be asked to prepare a PowerPoint presentation with a 10 minutes limit.

The presenters will be asked to share their screen at the time of their presentation. Please make sure your computers are tested and ready so we can avoid technical difficulties. At the end of each presentation, the floor will be open for questions and comments by the judges and attendees.

Poster presentations will be held on the Fourwaves virtual platform*.

*For a sneak peek of how you can access the virtual poster and navigate through them, please click here

The virtual poster will be available through the Abstracts/Poster Presentations tab that will be made available on the day of Nov 12th. Only registered people will have access to this tab.

Presenters will be allowed to upload their files through the submission form that will be made available between November 4, 9am and November 11th, 5pm.

Posters can be uploaded in the following formats: gif, jpeg, jpg, png, or deconstructed as 7 slides (ppt, pptx) with file size not exceeding 30 MB per submission.

Presenters will be asked to prepare a 5 minutes presentation to go with their posters.

On Nov 12th, all the submissions will be online and accessible by the attendees.

During the poster session, attendees will be able to select a poster and start a virtual video conversation with the presenter. Other attendees will be able to join the conversation at any point (up to 8 people at the same time).

Awards

Best Junior Oral Presentation: 250$

Best Senior Oral Presentation: 250$

Junior Poster Presentations:

First place: 250$

Second place: 175$

Third place: 100$

Senior Posters Presentation:

First place: 250$

Second place: 175$

Third place: 100$

The term "Junior" refers to: Medical students, Undergraduate students, MSc students

The term "Senior" refers to: PhD student, Post-Doc, Research fellow

Only poster and oral presentations by trainees will be considered for awards.

Research employee are welcome to submit an abstract and present a poster.