Are you headed to Philadelphia for APHA's Annual Meeting, November 2-6, 2019? Be sure to check out the presentations of GWSPH faculty, staff and students:
Sunday, November 3
Crystal Harrell, MPH/PhD Student, Epidemiology
Presentation: Addressing health inequities Among African Americans
Time and location: 2:00-3:00 p.m., 2033.0
Amita N Vyas, Associate Professor, Prevention and Community Health
Presentation: APHA Film Festival Opening Kick-off Event - Sustainability: Within Our Means, Within Our Reach (Feature Film)
Time and location: 2:00-4:30 p.m., FF01
Imran Bari, Research Program Associate
Presentation: Physical Violence during Pregnancy and Infant Mortality:Evidence from Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2012-13
Time and location: 3:30-4:30 p.m., 2074.0
Carine Wellington, MPH student, Prevention and Community Health
Presentation: Pilot testing “Take Charge, Get Cured” with methadone patients: A mHealth tool addressing HCV treatment initiation
Time and location: 5:00-6:00 p.m., 2091.0
Monday, November 4
Ans Irfan, Professorial Lecturer, Environmental and Occupational Health
Presentation: Emerging Leaders: Climate & Health Equity
Time and location: 8:30-10:00 a.m., 3009.0
Anna Tanaglia, Student
Presentation: A Closer Look at High Risk Populations: Closing the Gap to Achieve Health and Nutrition Equity
Time and location: 8:30-10:00 a.m., 3035.0
Sabrina McCormick, Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health
Presentation: Special Session : Communicating Science to Lay Audiences (organized by HCWG)
Time and location: 8:30-10:00 a.m., 3061.0
Carine Wellington, MPH student, Prevention and Community Health
Presentation: Listening to the voices of women about PrEP: Lessons learned and applications for programs and interventions
Time and location: 8:30-10:00 a.m., 3070.0
Ichhya Pant, DrPH Student, Prevention and Community Health
Time and location: 10:30-11:30 a.m., 3072.0
Leana Wen, Visiting Professor of Health Policy and Management
Presentation: Public Health and Social Justice Issues for the 2020 Elections
Time and location: 10:30-12:00 p.m., 3116.0
Liz Borkowski, Senior Research Scientist, Health Policy and Management
Presentation: When bad and junk science impede action and harm health
Time and location: 1:00-2:30 p.m., 3289.0
GWSPH Reception
Join us for the GWSPH Alumni & Friends Reception on Monday, Nov. 4
Time and location: 6:00-8:30 p.m. | Register here
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tuesday, November 5
Wendy Ellis, Director of Building Community Resilience Collaborative and Networks
Time and location: 8:30-10:00 a.m., 4006.0
Erica Sedlaner, Doctoral Student
Presentation: Application of the life course approach to MCH Synopsis
Time and location: 8:30-10:00 a.m., 4048.0
Cassandra Allen, Student
Presentation: Yes we can!: Innovative methods for advancing women's health equity
Time and location: 9:10-9:30 a.m., 4067.0
Aubrey Villalobos, Director, Cancer Control & Health Equity
Presentation: Breastfeeding in Context: African American Women’s Descriptions of Cultural and Normative Influences on Infant Feeding
Time and location: 10:30-11:30 a.m., 4090.0
Amanda Castel, Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Presentation: AIDSVu and HepVu: Visualizing Data on HIV and Viral Hepatitis to Inform and Mobilize Public Health Actions
Time and location: 10:30-12:00 p.m., 4146.0
Tony Yang, Professor, Health Policy and Management
Presentation: Increasing Vaccination Rates through School Vaccination Laws
Time and location: 10:30-12:00 p.m., 4163.0
Rachel Sadlon, Assistant Director of Research and Evaluation, Prevention and Community Health
Presentation: Health and Education Equity in Schools: Collaborating for Success
Time and location: 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m., 4221.1
Edwin Flores, Student
Presentation: Health of the Vulnerable
Time and location: 1:00-2:30 p.m., FF10
Ichhya Pant, DrPH Student, Prevention and Community Health
Presentation: Translating Research into Practice for Global Health
Time and location: 1:00-2:30 p.m., 4260.0
Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz, Associate Professor, Prevention and Community Health
Presentation: Role of primary care in HIV prevention for Spanish-speaking gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men
Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m., 4296.0
Wednesday, November 6
Alicia Stillman, MPH Student
Presentation: Why take the chance: the importance of Meningitis B prevention as told by two mothers
Time and location: 10:30-12:00 p.m.