PHI PRESENTATIONS
Browse PHI's presentations, posters and events by thematic area:
HEALTH EQUITY
Sunday, November 11
People.Power.Change!: Immigration, Environmental Racism & Health Equity
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1:00 - 5:00pm
Hilton San Diego Bayfront
1 Park Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92101
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Join PHI's CA4Health to connect and explore issues impacting San Diego, the border region, and communities across the country through shared learning, dialogue and action. Topics to include immigration, mental health, environmental racism, health equity and more. Hear from local speakers about pressing San Diego issues, engage with allies to discuss key health equity challenges and opportunities, take collective action in support of health equity initiatives, and network with partners from across the U.S.
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Register here. The event is free, but space is limited, so please only register if you are certain you can attend.
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4:30 - 5:30pm: Vulnerable Populations and Alcohol-Related Disparities (2092)
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Poster: Beyond the Ethnic Enclave: Racial/Ethnic disparities within the alcohol and substance use environment
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Christina C. Tam, PhD, MSW, Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe, PhD - Alcohol Research Group
Using nationally representative data, we explore how residence in various coethnic neighborhoods (e.g., ethnic enclaves, ethnoburbs) relate to self-reported binge drinking and cannabis use; the protective effects of coethnic neighborhoods vary by nativity.
Monday, November 12
10:30am - 12:00pm: Equity Rising: Envisioning the Future of Health Equity (3114)
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10:50am Presentation: Equity as a Core Value in Healthy People Objectives
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Mary A. Pittman, DrPH - PHI President & CEO
This presentation will provide a history of the Healthy People 2020 focus on the “achievement of health equity” and how health equity and disparities indicators are advancing. Pittman will engage in a conversation about the inclusion and future of equity, as a core value given Healthy People 2030, the Equity Summit 2018, the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, the World Bank’s 2030 goals of ending poverty and increasing shared prosperity, and APHA’s 2030 goal of becoming the healthiest nation.
10:30am - 12:00pm: Threats to Equity and Health: Protecting Vulnerable Populations (Part II) (3119)
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10:50am Presentation: Fading Hope: Challenges to Immigrants’ Health in the Land of Opportunity
Carmen Nevarez, MD, MPH - Center for Health Leadership & Practice
Circumstances that degrade health status encompass a variety of threats including fleeing from dangerous environments, working in hazardous low-wage jobs, lack of meaningful access to prevention services. This presentation will outline health hazards that further exacerbate the health status those who have entered the US in the current economic and political environment and provide insights on how to address these gaps.
3:00 - 4:30pm: Using Health in All Policies to Advance Equity: A California Showcase (3335)
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Presentation: Equity as a Key Component of California’s Health in All Policies Approach
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Julia Caplan, MPP, MPH - California Health in All Policies Task Force
This presentation will describe how the Health in All Policies Task Force has leveraged existing opportunities and met political challenges in advancing intersectoral collaboration with an equity lens. Learn more.
Tuesday, November 13
8:30 - 10:00am: Sustainable Financing for Asthma Education and Home Environmental Trigger Remediation: Lessons Learned from the Field (4021)
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8:30am Presentation: Housing as a determinant of health: Addressing inequities through novel partnerships
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Joel Ervice - Regional Asthma Management and Prevention (RAMP)
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This presentation will describe efforts in California to achieve sustainable financing for asthma education and home environmental trigger remediation, compare approaches with those of other select states, and discuss lessons learned and implications for the field.
1:00 - 2:30pm: Creating the Healthiest Nation Through Environmental Health: A Federal Partner Perspective (4237)
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2:00pm Presentation: Partnerships as Power: Increasing Patient Access to Sustainable In-Home Asthma Interventions
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Joel Ervice - Regional Asthma Management and Prevention (RAMP)
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Many people with asthma lack sufficient access to patient education and environmental control measures, particularly in the home. This presentation will describe lessons learned from California and elsewhere to better align community-based prevention with the health care system by increasing the financial sustainability of in-home asthma services.
3:00 - 4:30pm: Governing for Racial Equity to Support a Healthy California (4329)
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Presentation: Governing for Racial Equity: California’s State Level Capitol Cohort
Julia Caplan, MPP, MPH - California Health in All Policies Task Force
This presentation will provide an overview of the California Health in All Policies Task Force’s Racial Equity Capitol Cohort and will describe political strategies, promising practices, and tips for implementing a racial equity frame in state government. Learn more.
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Wednesday, November 14
8:30 - 10:00am: Taking a New Lens to the Role of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Public Health (5050)
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Table 10: Elevating equity: Findings from an analysis of California news about racial and health equity
Katherine Schaff, DrPH, MPH; Pamela Mejia, MPH, MS - Berkeley Media Studies Group
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We conducted a preliminary analysis of articles from California newspapers that were published between December 1, 2016, and November 30, 2017 to learn whether racial and health equity issues are appearing in the news and if so, how they are framed. Although articles referencing equity concerns were published throughout the year, the inauguration of Donald Trump spurred a modest increase. Based on the findings of our analysis, we will identify potential limitations and opportunities of the current news discourse around racial and health equity.
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FEATURED RESOURCE:
Partnerships for Health Equity and Opportunity: A Healthcare Playbook for Community Developers
$1 trillion is spent every year in the U.S. on treating avoidable disease created by conditions of poverty. What if instead, we invested that $1 trillion towards eliminating the intergenerational transmission of poor health and poverty?
This playbook from PHI's Build Healthy Places Network guides community developers toward partnerships with hospitals and healthcare systems. As stewards for the communities they serve, the community development sector develops and finances the physical spaces, infrastructure, and essential services needed to live a healthy and productive life and can serve as an action arm for advancing population health and health equity.
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The playbook can help identify cross-sector partners, determine hospital readiness for collaboration, leverage your assets for partnership, and create your partnership roadmap.
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For more resources on health equity, visit us at phi.org.
GLOBAL HEALTH
Saturday, November 10
9:00am - 12:30pm: Global Health Institute for Students, Emerging Professionals and Mid-Career Changers (1001)
Fee: $85
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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.
10:15am Presentation: What it takes to be a Successful Global Health Professional
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David Godsted, MA - USAID Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP) II
Additional presenter: Ellen Eiseman, MPH, MSOD, Chemonics International, Inc.
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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. It will focus on trending career projections over the next 5 years and introduce practical activities to support individuals’ career planning.
Monday, November 12
10:30am - 12:00pm: Taxing Sugary Drinks:Emerging Evidence on Impacts on Price and Consumption (3148)
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11:30am Presentation: Global spread of sugar sweetened beverage taxes and evaluation research to date
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Lynn Silver, MD, MPH - PHI Senior Advisor for Chronic Disease and Obesity
Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes – a revenue generating, scalable, non-communicable disease prevention policy – are disseminating globally, now reaching over 1 billion people in 6 continents. This presentation will review the progress that has been made in the dissemination of SSB taxes and the status of impact assessments. Impact on prices, sales and consumption from published studies from Mexico, and emerging evidence from other countries will be summarized and compared to US findings.
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Tuesday, November 13
1:00 - 2:00pm: Alcohol Laws, Policy and Enforcement (4198)
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Poster: A multinational, multilevel study of associations between countries' alcohol availability policies and secondhand harms from alcohol: Are the relationships moderated by drinking culture within local areas?
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Thomas Greenfield, PhD; Won Kim Cook, PhD; Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe, PhD; Libo Li, PhD - Alcohol Research Group
Additional authors: Sarah Callinan, PhD; Robin Room, PhD
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Surveys in 10 countries were linked with WHO alcohol policy data, finding both alcohol-sales licensing and public-place drinking restrictions were associated with lower secondhand harms (e.g.,physical abuse, vandalism, vehicular accident, and intimidation); restrictions were shown more effective in areas with less risky drinking.
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5:00 - 6:30pm: International, national, state, and local partnerships to improve health-related outcomes (4420)
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6:00pm Presentation: Intersectoral Forum to Fight NCDs in Brazil: An initiative to co-design solutions
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Mark Barone, PhD; Esther Tahrir, MPH; Olivia LaFond; Dan Gillette, MEd - Global Health Leaders
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This presentation will provide an overview of the "Intersectoral Forum to Fight NCDs in Brazil," which started in October of 2017 and has been bringing together main leaders and authorities on NCDs in Brazil, from the public, non-for-profit and private sectors to partner, co-design and implement solutions.
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FEATURED RESOURCE:
MPT Target Population Identification Mapping Tool
When a doctor's visit requires a day's journey, multipurpose prevention technologies (MPTs)—rings, injections and other women's products that prevent HIV, STIs and unintended pregnancies—give women long-term, viable and smart sexual and reproductive health options.
Now, a new interactive GIS mapping tool, launched by the Initiative for Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (MPTs), a project of PHI's CAMI Health, helps visualize “hot spots” in Sub-Saharan Africa where MPTs can have the greatest impact. The map illustrates the overlap in HIV prevalence in women and the total addressable market for contraception (women currently using a modern method as well as those who plan to use contraception in the future).
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For more resources on global health, visit us at phi.org.
ALCOHOL & SUBSTANCE USE
Sunday, November 11
4:30 - 6:00pm: Spotlight on evidence informed community action in preventing alcohol-related problems (286)
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Presentation: Alcohol as a Risk Factor for Chronic Disease: Raising Awareness and Policy Options
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Thomas K. Greenfield, PhD; Priscilla Martinez, PhD - Alcohol Research Group
This oral presentation will summarize classic studies and new evidence on alcohol as a risk factor for major chronic diseases, and consider how best to raise the public’s awareness of the role of drinking and heavy drinking in these conditions, especially cancer and hypertension.
4:30 - 5:30pm: Vulnerable Populations and Alcohol-Related Disparities (2092)
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Poster: Description of alcohol use patterns using geography-based and identity-based definitions of rurality
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Kara Bensley, PhD; Nina Mulia, DrPH; Sarah Zemore, PhD - Alcohol Research Group
This poster describes differences in alcohol use patterns across rurality collected using a web-based survey using two definitions of rurality: 1) geography-based, defined by the zip codes where participants lived, and 2) identity-based, defined by how participants classified their own communities.
4:30 - 5:30pm: Alcohol and tobacco use harms: Evidence from international research poster session (2084)
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Poster: Recall bias across seven days in self-reported alcohol consumption prior to injury among emergency department patients
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Cheryl Cherpitel, DrPH; Yu Ye, MA - Alcohol Research Group
Accuracy of recall of alcohol consumption is reported for the six-hours prior to injury and the same six-hour period for the previous six days.
Monday, November 12
10:30am - 12:00pm: Suicide, Deaths of Despair or Something Else? Understanding Alcohol and Other Drug Death Disparities in the U.S. (4280)
10:30am Presentation: Analyses of economic conditions, suicide and alcohol-related suicide in the US from 2006-2015
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William Kerr, PhD - Alcohol Research Group
Additional authors: Mark S. Kaplan, DrPH; Bentson H. McFarland, MD, PhD; Amelia C. Mueller-Williams, MSW, MPH; Raul Caetano, MD, MPH, PhD; Norman Giesbrecht, PhD
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This presentation will model variation in suicide rates and the proportion of alcohol-involved suicides at the county level with a focus on poverty rates, median income and unemployment rates over the 2006 to 2015 period.
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3:00pm Presentation: Heavy drinking among US-born and foreign-born Blacks
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Deidre Patterson, MPH; Katherine Karriker-Jaffe, PhD; Thomas K. Greenfield, PhD - Alcohol Research Group
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This presentation will discuss any differences in heavy drinking among foreign-born and US-born Blacks and the extent to which several possible mediating factors explain these differences.
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3:00 - 4:30pm: Health Disparities and Excessive Alcohol Use (3326)
Tuesday, November 13
1:00 - 2:00pm: Alcohol laws, policy, and enforcement (4198)
Poster: Outlet Type, Access to Alcohol, and Violent Crime
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Pamela Trangenstein, PhD, MPH - Alcohol Research Group
Additional author: David Jernigan, PhD, Boston University School of Public Health
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This poster combines routine activity theory and spatial access methods to determine the association between access to alcohol outlets and violent crime by type of outlet and type of crime in Baltimore, Maryland.
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3:00 - 4:30pm: Innovative policy approaches to the opioid epidemic (4323)
3:00pm Presentation: Tackling an Epidemic: Evidence of the Coalition Approach to Opioid Safety
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Carmen Nevarez, MD, MPH - California Opioid Safety Network / Center for Health Leadership & Practice
Additional authors: Amy Max, MPH, CA Opioid Safety Network;Haylea Hannah, MSPH, University of Washington; Matthew Willis, MD, MPH, County of Marin Department of Health and Human Services; Karina Arambula, MPH, County of Marin Department of Health and Human Services; Rochelle Ereman, MS, MPH, County of Marin Department of Health and Human Services
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This session will describe the results of a statewide assessment of local opioid safety coalitions and the impact they have made in reducing prescribing rates and increasing access to prevention and treatment strategies, including medication assisted treatment and Naloxone.
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FEATURED RESOURCE:
Opportunities and Challenges to Utilizing Telehealth Technologies in the Provision of Medication Assisted Therapies in the Medi-Cal Program
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) both endorse medication-assisted treatment (MAT) as the gold standard of treatment for opioid use disorder, but only 10% of those who need the treatment are able to access it. Telehealth could help expand access to MAT, but policy barriers persist at both the federal and state level.
This report from PHI's Center for Connected Health Policy finds great promise in the use of telehealth to deliver MAT services to enrollees in Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid Program—especially as fentanyl hits the state in force and treatment demands continue to exceed the provider supply.
Find more details in the report, including recommendations for streamlining Medi-Cal regulations to facilitate broader telehealth adoption in rural areas and other communities that need it most.
For more resources on substance use and alcohol, visit us at phi.org.
WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S HEALTH
Sunday, November 11
4:30 - 5:30pm: Vulnerable Populations and Alcohol-Related Disparities (2092)
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Poster: Gender differences in mental health and well-being of people with heavy drinkers in their lives
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Katherine Karriker-Jaffe, PhD; Deidre Patterson, MPH; Thomas K. Greenfield, PhD - Alcohol Research Group
Using US national survey data, we established 40% of women and 39% of men had a heavy drinker (HD) in their life (6% both women and men had a HD in their household), but only women showed worse personal well-being and increased mental health problems associated with the degree of alcohol-related harm inflicted by a known HD in the past year.
Monday, November 12
1:00 - 2:30pm: Child Maltreatment Prevention Research and Practice (3253)
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1:00 Presentation: Bridging the gap: Findings from an analysis of news about the child welfare system and domestic violence
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Pamela Mejia, MPH, MS; Sarah Han, BA; Daphne Marvel, BA; Laura Nixon, MPH; Lori Dorfman, DrPH - Berkeley Media Studies Group
Additional author: Shellie Taggart, Quality Improvement Center on Domestic Violence in Child Welfare at Futures Without Violence
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This presentation will discuss opportunities and recommendations for practitioners and researchers to shift the public conversation around the connection between domestic violence and the child welfare system, in light of the gaps and opportunities in the discourse revealed by our analysis.
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3:00 - 4:30pm: Data linkage and health care data analysis (3343)
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3:00pm Presentation: A probabilistic linkage methodology for linking vital statistics data
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Christy McCain, MPH - PHI Research Scientist
Additional presenter: Dan Susan Sun, PhD, UCSF
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This presentation will describe a probabilistic record linkage process for Pregnancy-Associated Death cohort construction. The weighted linkage methodology effectively links vital statistics files to reduce clerical review time and provide a fundamental framework supporting administrative data linkage for programmatic and longitudinal epidemiological studies.
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Tuesday, November 13
8:30 - 10:00am: Understanding chronic conditions among women who want to be pregnant, and access to services, severe morbidity, and mortality among women who recently delivered (4051)
9:00am Presentation: Assessment of the accuracy of the pregnancy checkbox death certificate field in identifying pregnancy-associated deaths in California, 2008-2012
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Christy McCain, MPH - PHI Research Scientist
Additional presenter: Dan Susan Sun, PhD, UCSF
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Pregnancy-associated deaths (deaths while pregnant/within one year postpartum) may be under-ascertained if identified solely through California's pregnancy checkbox on death certificates. We performed a comprehensive data linkage to quantitatively assess the magnitude of underestimation and describe ascertainment by causes.
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9:10am Presentation: Overview of the California Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review (CA-PAMR) project: What we have gained from enhanced surveillance of maternal deaths
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Christy McCain, MPH - PHI Research Scientist
Additional presenter: Paula Krakowiak, PhD, CDPH/MCAH
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This presentation will describe how the CA Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review Phase I informed Phases II (maternal suicide review) and III (a streamlined hybrid approach) to produce reliable estimates of specific causes of death and the proportion of deaths that are pregnancy-related.
FEATURED RESOURCE:
The California Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review: Report from 2002 to 2007 Maternal Death Reviews
After a steady rise in maternal mortality from 1999-2006, California observed a sustained decline in maternal mortality, from a high of 16.9 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2006 to a low of 7.3 deaths per 100,000 in 2013. This is in contrast to the rest of the nation where maternal mortality rates are triple those of California.
Released by the California Department of Public Health, the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative and PHI, this report provides a comprehensive statewide examination of maternal deaths from 2002-2007.
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Cardiovascular disease was the leading cause of pregnancy-related deaths during the study period, and 41% of pregnancy-related deaths had a good-to-strong chance of preventability. The report also highlights the persistence of racial disparities: while maternal mortality for African-American women showed a 50% reduction, they continued to die at 3-4 times the maternal mortality rate of women of other racial/ethnic groups.
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For more resources on women's and children's health, visit us at phi.org.
MEDIA Advocacy
Monday, November 12
8:30 - 10:00am: Preventing Gun Violence: Understanding State and Federal Issues, Communication, and the Importance of Putting a Face on the Data (3016)
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8:30am Presentation: Communicating the message: How to discuss gun violence prevention with the community, the media and policymakers
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Pamela Mejia, MPH, MS - Berkeley Media Studies Group
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This presentation will focus on effectively communicating with people who have varying opinions and beliefs about gun violence prevention, from gun owners who work toward decreasing restrictions on access to firearms to advocates who seek to eliminate guns in the home, and policy makers who are faced with the debate over firearms on a regular basis.
1:00 - 2:00pm: Poster session 4 HPH (3209)
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Poster: Twenty years of nurses in the news: Findings from an updated analysis of healthcare coverage
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Laura Nixon, MPH; Pamela Mejia, MPH; Sarah Han, BA - Berkeley Media Studies Group
Additional authors: Diana Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN, George Washington University; Barbara Glickstein, RN, MPH, MS, George Washington University School of Nursing; Kristi Westphaln, RN, MSN, PNP-PC, George Washington University School of Nursing
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.
3:00 - 4:00pm: Breastfeeding Poster Session 2: Latest topics in breastfeeding and lactation (3299)
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Poster: Feeling better, doing worse: How “mommy wars” formula advertising can reduce collective action and increase inequities in breastfeeding
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Pamela Mejia, MPH, MS - Berkeley Media Studies Group
Additional authors: Mackenzie Whipps, New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; Julia Honoroff, New York University
This poster presents some examples of infant formula marketing that uses “common ground” messaging to derail conversations about inequities that undermine breastfeeding. It also suggests ways in which public health professionals can advocate for health equity in the face of these potentially disruptive marketing campaigns.
Tuesday, November 13
3:00 - 4:30pm: Mass shootings, homicides, and other firearm injury prevention (4362)
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3:15pm Presentation: More than mass shootings: Findings from an analysis of news about suicide, domestic violence, and gun violence
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Pamela Mejia, MPH, MS; Daphne Marvel, BA; Laura Nixon, MPH; Sarah Han, BA; Lori Dorfman, DrPH - Berkeley Media Studies Group
Additional authors: Brian Malte, Hope and Heal Fund
This presentation will discuss how three common types of gun violence (domestic violence, suicide, and community violence) are framed in California news, which provides a window into public discourse, and what our findings mean for efforts to shift gun violence narratives.
Wednesday, November 14
12:30 - 2:00pm: APHA Live Session: Social Media and the Impact on Young People's Health and Wellbeing (5119)
Moderated by Carmen Nevarez, MD, MPH - PHI Vice President of External Relations and Preventive Medicine
Social media has exploded in public health as an important tool for engaging the public. This session will explore how important communication tools can be used for health education as well as their challenges when misused.
FEATURED RESOURCE:
From Beating the Odds to Changing the Odds: Recommendations for Journalists Covering Early Childhood
Growing insights from multiple bodies of science show that what happens from pre-conception into early childhood has a profound impact on health outcomes into and throughout adulthood. News coverage is an important part of the public conversation about this crucial time in a person's lifespan. Robust, well-reported news coverage can elevate issues, influence how the public and policymakers perceive them and set the stage for a policy response.
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How, then, can journalists incorporate complex scientific findings into news stories about children that are typically focused on immediate events? PHI's Berkeley Media Studies Group examined existing news coverage on early childhood, spoke with journalists whose stories stood out as exemplars of nuanced reporting on the issue, and convened a small group of experienced journalists to discuss the challenges of reporting comprehensively on early childhood and to generate recommendations for best practices.
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For more resources on media and communications, visit us at phi.org.
Don't Miss the APHA Global Public Health Film Festival Featuring:
"Protecting oil and gas workers from hydrocarbon gases and vapors"
Wednesday, November 14 | 10:30 - 10:45am
Film Session FF15: One Ounce of Violence and Injury Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
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Laura Styles, MPH, California Department of Public Health/Public Health Institute; Robert Harrison, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco
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It’s a story that no one wants to hear, yet it’s a story that carries an important lesson–a lesson that can save other workers from injury and death. This is a story about David, a truck driver, who died from exposure to a mixture of hydrocarbon gases and vapors when he opened an oil tank to measure how much oil and water it contained. This video highlights the hazards involved and shows prevention steps that can make this work safer.
