Submission Deadline

The online submission site will close at midnight MT on Tuesday, January 6, 2026. You can start a submission and save as a draft until you are ready to complete. Any submission still in draft mode after midnight MT on this date will be considered invalid.

Notifications

Notifications of acceptance will be sent via email in late January.

About One Health: Antimicrobial Resistance and Emerging Zoonoses Conference

This in-person event is an exciting collaboration among the Antimicrobial Resistance – One Health Consortium (AMR – OHC), The Canadian Antimicrobial Resistance Network (CAN-AMR-Net), and Canopy, the Canadian One Health Training Program on Emerging Zoonoses, creating

a dynamic environment for interdisciplinary collaboration in One Health.

Audience

This conference attracts a diverse range of participants from across Canada in AMR and Emerging Zoonoses and One Health fields, including:

• Researchers from AMR-OHC, CAN-AMR-Net and CANOPY and other initiatives
• Trainees and research staff developing their clinical or research skills in these fields
• Industry sponsors looking to support innovative and sustainable health solutions
• Government and private sector and community organizations invested in addressing AMR, EZ and other critical health issues.

Eligibility

The call for abstract submissions is open to trainees (undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and clinical fellows), research associates and research/laboratory technicians, not for profit groups, community researchers and all other academics with a research focus on One Health, AMR and/or EZ related work. Attendees from outside Canada may submit an abstract for consideration. However, they are not eligible to apply for the travel grants. Financial support for international travel will not be provided through the conference.

Format

Submissions will be considered for oral or poster abstract presentation. One Health 2026 conference is in-person attendance only (no virtual option). All authors accepted for a presentation must present in-person.

Fees

There is no fee to submit an abstract. At least one presenting author is required to register and be fully paid by the presenting author registration deadline – Wednesday, February 11, 2026. Some trainee presenters may be eligible for funding to cover expenses as a member of one of the three trainee platform organizations hosting this event. Please contact your individual training platform coordinators for more information. *Please

note - as registration fees are already heavily subsidized, no further discounts will be offered for accepted presenters.   

Trainee Travel Awards

Thanks to funding from our industry partners, three travel grants of $1,500 CAD each will be awarded to trainees presenting exemplary research at the conference. Eligible applicants include undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and research staff, and clinical fellows who are named as the presenting author of an accepted abstract. Abstracts will be reviewed by peers, and selection will be based on research quality, with consideration given to geographical diversity. If you wish to apply for a travel award, please select "Yes" on the online abstract submission form.

Submission Themes        

1. Disease and Pathogen Biology     
2. Interventions and Controls
3. Surveillance and Data Systems
4. Thought Leadership and Policy Development

Selection Criteria

Scoring is based on the following criteria:

1. Relevance to one of the four themes (noted above)
2. Scientific rigor
3. Quality of data and results
4. Originality and innovation
5. Significance and impact
6. Presentation and writing quality

Guidelines

Abstracts must include the following elements:

1. Background / introduction
2. Objective / purpose
3. Procedure / methods
4. Results / conclusion
5. Significance in the context of One Health*

*Explain how your research considers (or will contribute to) a One Health approach for examining AMR and/or EZ issues.

Other:

• Do not include any identifying information (names, city, institution) within the body of the abstract.
• The abstract title is limited to 30 words. Please use Title Case. Each abstract is limited to 300 words minimum and 300 words maximum not including the title, authors, or affiliations. No graphic elements (e.g. charts, tables) are permitted.
• It is recommended you prepare your abstract in a word processing software such as MS Word ahead of time so you can copy and paste the text into the abstract system. Do not use presentation software such as PowerPoint. 
• Abstracts must be submitted in English or French.
• Accepted abstracts may be presented in the language of submission.
• Abstracts cannot be edited or revised after the submission deadline.

Abstract Submitter (Contact Author) versus Presenting Author

The abstract submitter is the individual who is submitting the abstract for consideration and acts as the main contact for said submission. The abstract submitter is responsible for disseminating all communications received from conference organizers regarding the abstract submission. The abstract submitter must be a member of the research team. The abstract submitter does not have to be the presenting author. Presenting author must be identified within the online submission form.

Tips for a successful submission!

Here are some of the common reasons abstracts are not accepted for presentation

• Subject matter is not appropriate
• Subject matter does not align with a conference theme
• Information is not novel (new enough)
• Abstract is duplicative of other submissions
• Format does not follow guidelines
• Submission is poorly written and difficult to understand
• Background does not summarize the hypothesis
• Methodology is inadequate or insufficient to support conclusions
• Evaluation is inadequate or absent
• Summary of essential results is inadequate or absent
• Proposals with no clear findings
• The work has been published as a full paper in a peer-reviewed journal prior to the submission deadline