Theme 1: Physiology, Kinesiology and Psychology

• Concepts of wellness, goods, bads, shoulds
• The psychology of wellness
• Health promoting behaviors
• The measurement of wellness
• Evaluations of long-term impacts of health and wellness programs
• Disability research (independent living and counseling)
• Physical fitness, aging and the effects on health and wellness
• Health related fitness programs – community and corporate based
• Physical fitness and its role in mental health
• Physical activity, self esteem and wellness
• Health and wellness with disabilities
• Health, fitness and media driven concepts of beauty
• Media influences on health risk behaviors
• School physical education curriculum and its effects on health
• Wellness coaching and fitness for improved health

Theme 2: Interdisciplinary Health Sciences

• Cross-disciplinary and professional perspectives: medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, psychology, physical therapies, dietetics, social work, counseling, sports science, physical education
• Health technologies
• Home healthcare workers role in wellness
• Integration of complementary and alternative medicine into a health system
• Nutriceuticals and supplements for health
• Genome sciences, chronic disease prevention
• Personalized medicine
• The increasing role of psychological drugs
• The booming business of unwellness-the negative health industries
• Biomedical aging research
• Immunobiological research
• Epigenetics research
• Ancestry and health, traits and diseases
• Regenerative medicine
• Globally available vaccines, the supply chain and supply economics
• Biomedical occupational health and safety

Theme 3: Public Health

• Promotion of health and well being
• Health literacy
• Health risk appraisals, screenings and interventions
• Public health and communications technologies
• Sustainable innovation strategies in public health
• Global public health development and sustainability
• Public health provider development
• Public health and disease prevention
• Healthcare reform impacts
• New and emerging public health and safety risks
• Biosafety and biosecurity
• Acquired infections and health workers
• Community environmental health planning
• Occupational health and safeties role in health and wellness
• Immunization programs and serum banking

Theme 4: A Healthy Society

• Health education for non-literate populations
• Web-based health education
• Information technologies in healthcare
• Environmental threats to health and wellness
• The economics of health and wellness in society
• Health and wellness in the workplace
• Health, life expectancy and the cost of living longer
• New and emerging health and safety risks
• Occupational health and safety education and training
• Racial, ethnic, gender, socio-economic, and rural disparities in healthcare
• Life balance, health and wellness within community cultures
• Institutional influences on health and wellness
• Health and economic sustainability
• Poverty, health and wellness
• Social determinations of health and wellness
• Quality of life, spirituality and wellness
• Health, wellness and the effects of social exclusion
• The environment, quality of life and wellness.
• Urbanization in developing countries: environmental health impacts
• WHO policies on world nutrition
• Obesity in affluent societies
• The food linkage to unwellness
• The food industry and government (FDA) food policy
• Nutrition for health and wellness
• Child food insecurity
• Family mealtime patterns, child feeding practices and their affects on health