Visit us at the USAID Global Health Fellows Program II booth: #1109
Daily Schedule
Saturday, November 4, 2017
9:00am - 12:30pm: Global Health Institute for Students, Emerging Professionals and Mid-Career Changers (1001)
Fee: $75
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The purpose of the Global Health Institute is to assist students, emerging professionals and midcareer changers in honing their leadership and core public health skills to effectively address global health concerns.
10:05am Presentation: What it takes to be a successful Global Health Professional
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Sharon Rudy, PhD, BCC - USAID Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP) II
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This presentation will demonstrate key skills required to thrive in the Global Health realm from an employers’ perspective. Participants will be exposed to firsthand experiences and reflections, and recent relevant research. Future career trends will be described with video support.
11:20am Presentation: Envisioning the Future of the Global Health Professional
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David Godsted, MA - USAID Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP) II
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This segment focuses on trending career projections over the next 5 years and introduces practical activities to support individuals’ career planning.
Sunday, November 5, 2017
3:00 - 4:00pm: Public Engagement with Online, Social, and Mass Media: Implications for Public Health (2071)
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Poster: Making the case for investing in community health: A media analysis of efforts to change the discourse around prevention and incarceration in Northern California
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Pamela Mejia, MPH, MS, Laura Nixon, MPH, Lori Dorfman, DrPH - Berkeley Media Studies Group
Researchers conducted a media analysis to explore how four northern California communities are shifting the public discourse in their regions to elevate the concerns of communities of color and make the case for investing in prevention, economic development, and equity.
4:30 - 5:30pm: Increasing Access to Healthy Foods (2094)
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Poster: A Community Driven Social Marketing and Healthy Retail Initiative in Rural Georgia
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Amy DeLisio, MPH, RD, Sharon Sugerman MS, RD, FADA - Center for Wellness and Nutrition
Non-PHI Authors: Suzanne Glenn, M.Ed, Heather Rice, MPH - HealthMPowers
This presentation will explore the efforts of a social marketing campaign coupled with a healthy retail initiative in three low income communities in rural Georgia to increase access to and consumption of fruits and vegetables, water and other healthy foods.
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4:30 - 5:30pm: Global Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (2106)
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Poster: GOJoven: Scaling up a unique model of youth leadership development to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health
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Susanna Moore, MA, Esther Tahrir, MPH - GOJoven International
The GOJoven Model features key components that contribute to successful scale-up of youth-led initiatives in the field of adolescent health, and demonstrates the importance of youth leadership development in improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health services, programs and policies.
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4:30 - 5:30pm: Substance Use Disparities (2087)
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Poster: Intersection of race and sexual orientation: Prevalence of past 30-day heavy episodic drinking among Black sexual minority women
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Emily Yette, MPH, Karen Trocki, PhD, Nina Mulia, DrPH - Alcohol Research Group
This study uses BRFSS data to investigate the relationship between race, sexual orientation, and the intersection of race and sexual orientation and heavy episodic drinking among Black women who identify as lesbian or bisexual.​
4:30 - 5:30pm: Alcohol across the lifespan (2080)
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Poster: State binge drinking prevalence is associated with alcohol's harms to others
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Won Kim Cook, PhD, Thomas K. Greenfield, PhD, Deidre Patterson, MPH, Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe, PhD - Alcohol Research Group
This study examined the relationship between state-level drinking cultures and alcohol's second-hand harms. Individuals in U.S. states with higher binge drinking rates had increased risk of experiencing harms from perpetrators' externalizing behaviors such as assault/vandalism and drinking driver-related harms.
4:30 - 5:30pm: HIV and STDs (2102)
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Poster: YEH (Youth, Empowerment, Health): The more you know! A comprehensive education program to improve the sexual and reproductive health of commercially sexually exploited youth
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Alison Chopel, MPH, DrPH - California Adolescent Health Collaborative
Non-PHI Authors: Stephannie Ratcliff, BA - UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program; Aisha Mays, MD - UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Learn about health implications and outcomes of youth involved in or at-risk-of commercial sexual exploitation (CSEC), the reproductive, sexual health, and relationship values they express, and how the implementation of a tailored CSEC sexual health education program increased their agency.
6:00 - 8:00pm: Climate Change and Health Social Hour
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Studio No.7
393 Marietta Street NW, Atlanta, GA
This social hour provides an opportunity for public health professionals who want to take action on climate change to meet and mingle. Hosted by the U.S. Climate and Health Alliance and the APHA Climate and Health Topic Committee.
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Monday, November 6, 2017
10:30 - 11:30am: Children's Environmental Health (3087)
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Poster: Cost of Childhood Lead Poisoning in the United States, by State
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Daniel Madrigal, MPH, Eric Roberts, MD, PhD, Jhaqueline Valle, MPH - California Environmental Health Tracking Program
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This poster provides state-level estimates for the costs associated with childhood lead poisoning.
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10:30am - 12:00pm: Health Equity in Today’s Political and Social Reality (3188)
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11:10am Presentation: Health Equity in Today’s Political and Social Reality: Challenges Facing Latino Communities
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Carmen Nevarez, MD, MPH - Center for Health Leadership & Practice
This presentation will provide a regional perspective on health equity, particularly as it relates to the impact of the current environment on priority populations. It will cover the main challenges faced when building communities to advance health equity.
12:30 - 1:30pm: Race and Mental Health: Disparities in Risk, Access, and Outcomes (3227)
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Poster: Trauma, resilience, and #BlackLivesMatter: How do racism and trauma intersect in social media discourse?
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Laura Nixon, MPH, Pamela Mejia, MPH, MS, Lillian Seklir, Lori Dorfman, DrPH - Berkeley Media Studies Group
Non-PHI Author: Jane Stevens - ACEsConnection Network / ACEsTooHigh
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The researchers examined how the intersections between trauma and racism appear in evolving social media conversations – and assessed the implications of this discourse for advocacy and action to prevent childhood trauma.
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10:30am - 12:00pm: PHEHP Student Awards Oral Session (4155)
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11:00am Presentation: Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth’s Perspectives on their Strengths and Health Needs: A Photovoice Project
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Alison Chopel, MPH, DrPH - California Adolescent Health Collaborative
Non-PHI Authors: ​Stephannie Ratcliff, BA - UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program; Colette Auerswald, MD, MS, and Aisha Mays, MD - UC Berkeley School of Public Health
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Learn about perspectives of youth who have been commercially sexually exploited (CSE), or are at risk for CSE, on their health, relationships, and communities, and understand how medical and community interventions can improve their sexual and reproductive health.
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12:30 - 2:00pm: Global, International, and/or Transnational LGBT Public Health (3283)
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1:10pm Presentation: Sociocultural Contexts of Sex Work among Mak Nyah (Transgender Women) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Mariko Iwamoto, MA, Tooru Nemoto, PhD, Yik Koon Teh, PhD, Rebecca de Guzman, PhD - Health Interventions for Underserved Populations
This presentation is based on a qualitative study of transgender women (Mak nyah) who engage in sex work, exploring sociocultural factors that elevate health risks for this population.
12:30 - 1:30pm: Cancer Forum Poster Session 6: Advances and Innovations in Cancer Research and Care #1 (3206)
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Poster: Parental loss in childhood and daughter’s breast cancer in the Child Health and Development Studies
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Barbara Cohn, PhD, Piera Cirillo, MPH, Nickilou Y. Krigbaum, MPH - Child Health and Development Studies
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In the Child Health and Development studies we found parental loss in childhood was a robust and significant risk factor for early and aggressive breast cancer after accounting for maternal history.
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2:30 - 4:00pm: Pan American action on climate change and health (3354)
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2:50pm Presentation: Health Sector Response to Climate Change in the U.S
Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH - Center for Climate Change and Health
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This presentation will detail various ways in which the U.S. health sector is responding to climate change, including through action in hospitals and health care systems, local health agencies, and medical and nursing professional organizations, as well as in defending federal climate policies and mobilizing for action in sub-national jurisdictions and in their own institutions.
2:30 - 4:00pm: Cafeterias to Classrooms: Improving Nutrition in U.S. Schools (3375)
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3:10pm Presentation: Pizza is a vegetable?: Findings and lessons learned from news coverage and legislative debates on school food nutrition guidelines in 11 states
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Laura Nixon, MPH, Lillian Seklir, Lori Dorfman, DrPH - Berkeley Media Studies Group
Non-PHI Authors: Mark A. Gottlieb - Public Health Advocacy Institute; Lissy C. Friedman, JD - Northeastern University School of Law; Emily Nink - Public Health Advocacy Institute
This project looked to describe how the school food debate is framed in news coverage - particularly around the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act (2010) - and identify steps advocates can take to improve news coverage of school nutrition guidelines.
2:30 - 4:00pm: Positive Youth Development and Empowering/Training Youth to be Change Agents (3392)
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3:15pm Presentation: Healthy Relationships and Economic Pathways: How a cross-regional partnership is increasing adolescent efficacy for long-term healthy relationships and economic sustainability in California's Central Valley
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Alison Chopel, MPH, DrPH, Robert Lee, MAEd - California Adolescent Health Collaborative
Non-PHI Author: Katie Andrew, EdM - Children Now
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The Healthy Relationships and Economic Pathways (H-REP) program brings together Central Valley and Bay Area organizations to equip youth with the relationship and digital literacy skills necessary to thrive in today’s workforce.
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017
8:30 - 10:00am: Climate Change IV (4023)
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9:00am Presentation: Energizing progress toward climate resilience in Southern California by communicating localized Public Health threats and opportunities for action
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Tracy Delaney, PhD, RD, Sarah Helen Dowling, MPH, Carla Blackmar, MCP - Public Health Alliance of Southern California
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This presentation will introduce the Climate and Health Benefits Communication Toolbox, consisting of high impact graphics communicating locally modeled climate projections, clear messaging linking climate projections to health, and actionable local policies.
8:30 - 10:00am: Climate Justice: Building Power (4007.1)
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Moderated by Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH - Director of PHI's Center for Climate Change and Health
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This session will explain the value of a climate justice dialogue during the Year of Climate Change and Health, describe scenarios in which climate injustices occur, and identify climate justice solutions and successes across the United States.
8:30 - 10:00am: Breastfeeding Rapid Fire Oral Session: Latest Topics in Breastfeeding Research (4014)
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9:45am Presentation: Tweets, posts and health claims: A preliminary analysis of social media marketing of infant formula
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Pamela Mejia, MPH, MS, Laura Nixon, Lillian Seklir, Lori Dorfman, DrPH - Berkeley Media Studies Group
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As marketers are leveraging a sophisticated range of digital practices to target parents, we looked to discuss claims that infant formula marketers make in digital spaces and the implications that digital infant formula marketing have for breastfeeding adoption and duration.
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10:30am - 12:00pm: Increasing economic opportunities and equity through community development (4099)
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10:45am Presentation: Community Development Investment as a Tool for Advancing Health Equity
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Douglas Jutte, MD, MPH - Build Healthy Places Network
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This session will describe various sources of community development funds, identify some of the most important national and regional organizations partnering with public health to tackle community-based social determinants of health, and provide examples of innovative new investments made with health and equity in mind.
12:30 - 2:00pm: Mobilizing the Health Community to Fight Climate Change (4199.1)
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1:06pm Presentation: U.S. Climate and Health Alliance
Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH - Center for Climate Change and Health
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This presentation will describe the role of health professionals in informing decision makers about the health and health equity implications of climate policy, and identify ways in which individual health professionals and their organizations and institutions can become more engaged in climate policy at the state and local level.
12:30 - 2:00pm: Mobilizing Public Health to Engage in Social Justice Movements (4213)
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1:10pm Presentation: U.S. Climate and Health Alliance: Mobilizing for action on climate, health, and equity
Kathy Dervin, MPH, Savannah North, Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH - Center for Climate Change and Health
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This presentation will describe the multiple ways in which public health professionals and agencies can engage in work to address climate change and simultaneously promote health and equity in their communities and at the state and national level.
12:30 - 2:00pm: Recent Developments in International Trade and Its Impact on Health (4252)
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1:10pm Presentation: Is the U.S. Embargo Against Cuba Harming Our Health?
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Carmen Nevarez, MD, MPH - Center for Health Leadership & Practice
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While Obama took steps to normalize Cuba relations, the embargo remains and may harm health efforts in the U.S. This session explores how U.S. policy hinders access to prevention, vaccines, and medications with the potential to improve health in the U.S.
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2:30 - 3:30pm: HIV/AIDS Poster Session 8 - International Populations (4267)
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Poster: Access to Care and HIV Risk among MSM in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Tooru Nemoto, PhD, Mariko Iwamoto, MA, Yik Koon Teh, PhD, Rebecca de Guzuman, PhD - Health Interventions Among Underserved Populations
This poster is based on a study examining the access to care and HIV risk behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Kuala Lumpur.
2:30 - 4:00pm: Health in All Policies: Hot Topics to Support Intersectoral Collaboration and Promote Health, Equity, and Environmental Sustainability (4286)
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Moderated by Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH - Director of PHI's Center for Climate Change and Health
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2:30pm Presentation: Climate Change, Equity, and Health: Key Components of Health in All Policies
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Julia Caplan, MPH, MPP - California Health in All Policies (HiAP) Task Force
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This presentation will describe how climate change and equity are addressed through California’s Health in All Policies Task Force, and the importance of focusing on those areas to building healthy communities.
2:30 - 4:00pm: There oughta be a law: Alcohol policy for population health (4280)
3:10pm Presentation: State legislators' use of evidence in making policy on alcohol use in pregnancy: Preliminary data from qualitative interviews
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Katie Woodruff, MPH - Alcohol Research Group
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This presentation will describe how some state legislators use scientific evidence in making policy on alcohol use in pregnancy and will name factors other than evidence that appear to influence policymaking on alcohol use in pregnancy.
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3:30pm Presentation: Age at immigration and substance use and problems among males and females at the U.S.-Mexico border
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Cheryl Cherpitel, DrPH, Libo Li, PhD, Sarah Zemore, PhD - Alcohol Research Group
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The association of age of immigration with heavy alcohol use, drug use and alcohol use disorder was analyzed among 2,336 Mexican-Americans, males and females living both on and off the U.S.-Mexico border.
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2:30 - 4:00pm: Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Improve Community Health and Inform Community Health Policies (4303)
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3:30pm Presentation: Measuring Health Disadvantage Using the Social Determinants of Health: Frames Matter
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Neil Maizlish, PhD, MPH, Tracy Delaney, PhD, RD, Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH, Helen Dowling, MPH, Carla Blackmar, MCP - Public Health Alliance of Southern California
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The Public Health Alliance of Southern California developed a metric - the Health Disadvantage Index - to rank California census tracts by cumulative health disadvantage based on social determinants of health. This is a place-based tool to guide priority setting.
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2:30 - 4:00pm: Diverse Perspectives on Food Insecurity: A Roundtable Discussion (4314)
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Table 1: Addressing Senior Food Insecurity: A Housing Approach
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Rachel Horst - PHI Fellow at The Health Trust
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In San Jose, a city known for its sprawling geography, The Health Trust and its partners took a new approach to food insecurity among older adults by establishing "food access points" at senior affordable housing complexes for this food-insecure population.
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017
12:30 - 2:00pm: Alcohol's harms to others (5123)
12:30pm Presentation: Are U.S. state alcohol policies linked to individuals' later reports of secondhand drinking harms?
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Thomas Greenfield, PhD, Won Kim Cook, PhD, Katherine Karriker-Jaffe, PhD, Deidre Patterson, MPH,
William Kerr, PhD - Alcohol Research Group
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This talk will examine the relationship between 29 state alcohol policies and alcohol's harms to others, revealing associations between the state policy environment and aggression- and drunk driver- but not family-related harms.
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12:50pm Presentation: Prevalance and burden of harms from other people's drinking in the U.S.
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Thomas Greenfield, PhD, Madhabika B. Nayak, PhD, Deidre Patterson, MPH, Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe, PhD - Alcohol Research Group
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About 21% of women and 23% of men reported experiencing at least one type of alcohol's harm to others (AHTO) in the past year and showed that prevalence of AHTO differed by gender.
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1:10pm Presentation: Social context of harms from other people's drinking
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Christina C. Tam, PhD, MSW, Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe, PhD, Thomas K. Greenfield, PhD - Alcohol Research Group
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Gender differences in the neighborhood and social context of harms experienced from various others’ (e.g., family, stranger) drinking, based on the National Alcohol Survey and the National Alcohol's Harm to Others Survey.
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