Perfect MPH

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Perfect MPH Poster Presentations by René
Lucas MPH Practicum Coordinator University of
Washington
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• Overview
• Purpose of Poster
• Poster Layout and Content
• Possible Combination of Headings
• Poster Layout Example
• Poster Pitfalls
• Spicing up your poster
• Reminder

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• Purpose of Poster
• A poster should
• Tell a story
• Initiate discussion
• Attract attentionin a positive way
• Should stand alone
• Reflection of work put into your practicum

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• Layout and Content
• A good layout
• Flows smoothly and logically
• Draws attention to those things that are of
  greatest importance
• Subordinates visually those things that are less
  important
• Has a proportional amount of blank space
• Eliminates nonessential elements
• Creates groupings and long visual lines

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• Layout and Content, cont.
• A good layout uses
• Plain Language
• Short sentences, not too much text
• Avoid abbreviations
• Avoid technical terms
• SPELL CHECK!
• Few Tables Lots of graphs, figures
• Only use tables with descriptive statistics of
  your subjects and for sets of correlation
  coefficients
• Big plain fonts
• Open, round letters are preferred to condensed,
• small-bodied letters, e.g., POSTER
• Ariel, Tahoma, Times New Roman are good

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• Spicing it up!
• Lots of color
• Clear graphics
• Clear illustrations
• Photographs
• Visual impact!
• Your own creative touches
• For example
• Colors are powerful communication tools.
  According to Starch Reports in a study of 3,819
  ads, full-color ads yielded an 85 larger noting
  audience than black and white. Many studies have
  been made on the effect of color on perception.
  The findings of these studies have proven that
  color can set or change moods. We also give
  symbolic meanings to color. You may consider
  this when designing your poster presentations.

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• Reminder!
• The poster is to be designed as a completed
  poster on one (1) slide.
• Design your posters in PowerPoint. Go to Page
  Setup, Slides Sized For, and choose 35mm
  slides.
• Print a copy to make sure that your text fits
  within the slide and the papers margins.
• All posters will be made available to students,
  faculty and community agencies. They will also be
  displayed at the annual Spring Practicum
  Reception.
• For complete instructions on how to create a
  poster using MS PowerPoint, see the following
  website
• http//depts.washington.edu/mphpract/ppposter.html
  
• To view completed MPH student posters
• http//depts.washington.edu/mphpract/posters.html