International Society for Disease Surveillance

Distribute Community of Practice Scholarships

Description and Purpose

A limited number of scholarships will be awarded to members of the Distribute Community of Practice (CoP) to cover travel and registration for the 10th Annual Conference.  The purpose of this scholarship is to provide ISDS and Distribute CoP members the opportunity to:

  • Disseminate innovative research and practice from Distribute jurisdictions
  • Network with other CoP members and the broader surveillance community

Eligibility Criteria

To be considered for the ISDS Distribute CoP scholarship, you must:

  • Be an ISDS member at the time of application
  • Be from a local or state public health jurisdiction that contributes data to Distribute (you do not need to be the data administrator)
  • Submit an abstract for the 10th Annual Conference that is accepted by the 2011 Scientific Program Committee
  • Be in need of funding to attend the conference

*If you would like ISDS staff to review your abstract before submission, please send it to conference@syndromic.org.

Application Requirements

In addition to submitting an abstract to the 10th Annual Conference, eligible applicants must submit the following information to conference@syndromic.org no later than August 19th, 2011:

  • Name, address, institutional affiliation and position title
  • Estimated cost of attendance, including travel, accommodations and conference registration.  Please also indicate whether you have secured partial funding from any other source.
  • Short statement about why you would like to attend the ISDS 10th Annual Conference and/or Pre-Conference Workshops (no more than 200 words).

Awards

Successful scholarship applicants will be notified of award by October 7th, 2011 (after the abstract review and notification process is complete).  If you receive and accept a Distribute scholarship you will be expected to:

  • Present (either oral or poster) at the ISDS 10th Annual Conference
  • Conduct an ISDS webinar presentation at a later date

 

Award decisions will be made based on:

  • Abstract acceptance by review committee
  • Innovation of work described in the abstract
  • Applicant's personal statement