APHA 2022 Presentations

First Name	Last Name	Affiliation	Department / Program	Other APHA Involvement	Title of Presentation	Description of Presentation	Date of Presentation	Time of Presentation	Location Details
Amy	Rusch	Student	Health Behavior and Health Education		Community colleges as a space for increasing equity in access to evidence-based mental health: Understanding current access, barriers and facilitators for Michigan community college students	Nearly half of community college (CC) students report clinically significant symptoms of a mental health disorder, yet fewer than half of these students receive services. Treatment gaps are largest for racial/ethnic minorities and low-income students, and have been exacerbated by COVID-19. To better understand CC student mental health needs, Mental Health Improvement through Community Colleges (MHICC) aims to improve CC student access to evidence-based mental health treatments for depression/anxiety by assessing current gaps in mental health access and identifying barriers and facilitators to service utilization.	11/7/2022	1:00:00 PM	Poster Session: Public Mental Health Policy and Practice
Delvon	Mattingly	Student	Epidemiology		Racial/ethnic differences in associations between internalizing and externalizing problems and latent classes of tobacco and cannabis use among young adults	Student Oral Session	11/8/2022	8:30:00 AM
Susan	Parker	Student	Health Management and Policy		Effects of Permissive Concealed Carry Policy on Gun Violence	poster presentation on the effects of adopting permitless cary policy on gun crime and injury	11/7/2022	10:00:00 AM
Soomin	Ryu	Faculty / Staff	Epidemiology		Longitudinal analysis of gender discrimination in the workplace and depressive symptoms among Korean women	Based on the social causation model, our paper examined the longitudinal association between gender discrimination in the workplace and depressive symptoms.	11/6/2022	2:30:00 PM
Paul	Fleming	Faculty / Staff	Health Behavior and Health Education		Teaching the historical roots of health inequities and advocacy tools to transform our society	Learning the history of inequities is typically not a major part of public health degree programs but can be fundamental to truly understanding health inequities and identifying potential avenues for a transformed society. A historical perspective on inequities can help understand present-day inequities as constructed over time, provide needed context for community engagement efforts, and help identify the system of advantages and disadvantages based on race, gender, and class that have been built into U.S. society. This presentation will describe a course at the University of Michigan School of Public Health on the Historical Roots of Health Inequities and describe the material and teaching approaches used to teach history and also advocacy tools to creating a transformed society. First, I will describe the course structure and environment based on anti-racism principles that are intended to build classroom cohesion and a supportive learning environment. Second, I will describe the historical events we study and how they are important to understanding health inequities. Finally, I will describe the advocacy toolkit we build in class as a strategy to counteract the legacies of harmful past policies. To more effectively reduce health inequities, it is imperative that Schools and Programs of Public Health adopt curriculum content to provide public health professionals and researchers a much-needed historical perspective on inequities and the tools to advocate for change.	11/8/2022	8:30:00 AM
Judith	Daltuva	Faculty / Staff	Environmental Health Sciences		Improving the odds: health and safety for casino workers	Casino workers face many health and safety challenges from ergonomic injuries caused by awkward postures and repetitive motions to workplace violence to the hazards  presented by COVID-19. This poster presents the work of the health and safety committee and the improvements made to ventilation, awkward postures, and COVID-19 procedures in this high touch industry.	11/8/2022	3:00:00 PM
Renee	Pitter	Alumnus, Faculty / Staff	Health Behavior and Health Education		Session ID number: 935542 – Barriers, Successes, Entrepreneurial Potential for Women in the Health Care Industry: Journey Through the Century	Black Pathways: An examination of facilitators and barriers for career advancement in the healthcare professions	11/7/2022	10:30:00 AM
Minh Tung	Phung	Alumnus, Faculty / Staff	Epidemiology		Insight into cervical cancer prevention awareness, experiences, and attitudes among Southern Vietnamese women	Vietnam is a middle-income country where cervical cancer is the second most common and the deadliest gynecologic cancer. Cervical cancer incidence in Southern Vietnam has been shown to be 1.5-4 times higher than that in Northern Vietnam. However, less than 10% of Southern Vietnamese women have received the Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and only 50% have ever been screened for cervical cancer. In October-November 2021, we conducted six focus groups (44 women in total) to explore cervical cancer awareness, barriers to screening, and acceptability of HPV self-sampling for cervical cancer screening among rural and urban women in Southern Vietnam. This study has important public health implications as it provides insights for the development of interventions/policies to improve cervical cancer screening in Southern Vietnam.	11/7/2022	2:30:00 PM	Session: Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
Cynthia	Sieck	Alumnus	Health Behavior and Health Education	Session moderator	Community Voice Matters to Achieve Health Equity	This presentation describes the efforts of Dayton Children's Hospital Center for Health Equity to incorporate community voice to drive our work.	11/8/2022	2:45:00 PM
Heather	Olden	Alumnus	Epidemiology		“Without nursing support, we'd be doomed”: The critical buy-in from nursing when integrating doula care into clinical settings	Background Doula care is one strategy for eliminating racial and ethnic inequities in maternal health outcomes. Studying successful integration is crucial to the receptivity and scalability of doula care in clinical settings. Methods Representatives from six organizations (four hospitals, two payers) at differing stages of doula care implementation (from preparing to implement through 22 years of implementation) participated in five focus group discussions (FGDs) in July 2021. Representatives selected by each organization included nursing leadership, program managers, doulas, and providers. Three coders conducted coding and thematic analysis using a deductive approach. Coders further refined codes when kappa coefficients fell below 0.70. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research domains informed the semi-structured FGD guide and analysis. Results Of the 20 participants, almost all self-identified as female, and all had worked at their organization for at least two years. Despite increasing favorability towards doulas, tension among doulas and nurses exists. Findings suggest tension may stem from biases against doulas and power dynamics between clinical team members and doulas. Participants offered that nursing education about the role, scope, and training requirements of doulas may mitigate tension. Participants noted that doulas may provide benefits for nurses, such as remaining at the bedside, while nurses are laden with administrative tasks. Conclusions Nurse buy-in is crucial when integrating doulas into clinical settings due to their strong influence on culture and role in care workflows. Opportunities exist for education about doulas and exploring the mutually beneficial roles of doulas and nurses for buy-in towards integration.	11/9/2022	12:45:00 PM	BCEC-257B
Rachael	Dombrowski (Jankowski)	Alumnus	Health Behavior and Health Education		Assessing healthy food environments in dollar stores as compared to grocery stores in Michigan	Oral presentation on food availability, affordability and quality within dollar stores in four communities in Michigan.	11/6/2022	4:30:00 PM
Jen	Cruz	Alumnus	Epidemiology		Public Health for the People: A Community-Centered Public Health Education Program	For eight years, Boston's second-largest neighborhood, Allston-Brighton, has grown an organized and effective public health network. The Allston Brighton Health Collaborative (ABHC) network is comprised of community-focused organizations and stakeholders who work to implement public health interventions and address health-related social needs. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the network has effectively provided a direct response, information, and resource access. However, the network has lacked consistent resident voice and agency in the design and implementation of public health efforts. In response to the need for community public health knowledge and participatory engagement in critical decision-making discussions, Harvard University public health students worked with ABHC to co-develop an education program that fosters community-led public health conversation, learning, research, and action. The primary goal of this program is to equip community members with additional knowledge, skills, and language that complement their current expertise so that they can advocate for their individual, familial, and community public health needs. Three key objectives of this program are: 1) build connections across public health institutions, community-based organizations, youth, elders, and other community members; 2) increase knowledge of how public health as an institution, as well as its history, shapes health; and 3) root advocacy and interventions in community-driven concerns and interests. Program sessions are aligned with the core functions of public health: assurance, assessment, and policy development. Central to the program is health justice— ensuring that participants know what health justice is and what they can do to work towards it.	11/7/2022	4:30:00 PM
Rohan	Jeremiah	Alumnus	Health Behavior and Health Education		HA STTP	Building an academic career at the intersections of Trauma, Substance Use, and HIV/AIDS	11/6/2022	2:00:00 PM
Michael	Halpern	Alumnus	Epidemiology, Health Management and Policy	Chair of the APHA Cancer Forum, member of the AJPH Editorial Board	Hot Topics across the Cancer Control Continuum: Opportunities for Equity-Focused Approaches	Moderator for roundtable discussing novel studies in cancer control	11/8/2022	4:30:00 PM
Ruth	Kraut	Alumnus	Health Behavior and Health Education		Collaboration for proactive prevention and outbreak response in the adult homeless shelter setting	Adult homeless shelters are congregate settings where the risk of infectious disease spread is high. Following a norovirus outbreak at the Washtenaw County Delonis Shelter in 2019, the shelter began working with the Washtenaw County Health Department and the local Federally Qualified Health Center (Packard Health) on infection disease prevention. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, intensive planning and response efforts were initiated, with significant planning and financial response from WCHD, the county Office of Community and Economic Development and Packard Health, the FQHC. In the first year of the pandemic, many activities were implemented to reduce risks for shelter residents and staff, including placing limits on the number of individuals in any room; opening new temporary shelter locations; and testing. Later in the first year, tremendous efforts were made to ensure high vaccination rates for both residents and staff, with an emphasis on the J & J single-dose vaccine due to concerns about transience; for both groups, vaccination rates exceeded 70%. During year 2 of the pandemic, some efforts were rolled back (room limits and temporary locations); others maintained (masking); and others increased (testing, ongoing communication). During year 2, approximately 70% of residents got COVID during the Delta and Omicron surges. Isolation housing became of paramount importance, and also a tremendous strain on shelter staff. Monoclonal antibody therapy was delivered at the isolation housing site. Data analysis provides a framework for understanding which factors were most important, and how response could be improved in the future.	11/8/2022	2:30:00 PM
Emma	Gilchrist	Alumnus	Health Behavior and Health Education		Policies to advance behavioral health equity	The burden of mental health needs is high and varies by race and ethnicity. Structural barriers to accessing care, differences to pursuing behavioral health care and access to culturally-grounded care, and biased delivery of care all perpetuate systemic inequities. Policy action is needed to advance mental health equity across the United States. A policy and environmental scan was conducted to identify policies and case studies to inform the development of federal policy recommendations to improve equity in behavioral health. A national advisory panel was also consulted. The analysis was guided by the Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework. Six cross cutting policy principles were developed to guide policy recommendations, including sufficient and sustainable funding, improved data collection and disaggregation by race and ethnicity, establishing behavioral health equity and quality measures, prioritizing community-driven interventions, addressing stigmatizing language in laws and policies, and creating more equitable governance structures and policy making processes.  Improving behavioral health equity among minoritized communities requires a multi-prong, equity in all policies approach. Scaling and expansion of existing policies and implementation of new policies can be the mechanisms to reduce behavioral health disparities for youth and adults.	11/8/2022	11:15:00 AM
Lisa	Lapeyrouse	Alumnus	Health Behavior and Health Education		Operationalizing Racism as a Public Health Crisis: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric!	We will discuss our community-engaged work on steps taken after the resolution declaring racism and as public health crisis was passed for Genesee County, Michigan.	11/9/2022	12:30:00 PM	BCEC - 156A
Terri	Wright	Alumnus	Health Behavior and Health Education, Health Management and Policy		Inculcating Equity in the Maternal Health of BIPOC Mothers and Birthing Persons: The Racial Equity Learning Series	About the Racial Equity Learning Series (RELS) Strategies to address racial/ethnic disparities in pregnancy-related deaths in women and birthing persons, including improving the health and access to quality care in the preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum periods, can be implemented through community, health facility, patient and family, health care provider, and system levels (Peterson et al., 2019, para 3). RELS is part of a comprehensive, evidence-informed program. The objective is to reduce inequitable clinical and social practices that are contributing to poor maternal outcomes.	11/9/2022	12:30:00 PM
Lorena	Estrada-Martinez	Alumnus	Health Behavior and Health Education		Vieques, Ambiente, Salud, y Acción Comunitaria: A CBPR approach to addressing health and environmental risks in Vieques, PR	roundtable discussion	11/9/2022	10:30:00 AM
Katherine	Smith	Alumnus	Health Behavior and Health Education	Executive Committee of ICTHP Section	Effects of An Individualized Virtual Worksite Wellness Program at a Small Integrative Health University	Poster	11/1/2022	10:30:00 AM
Ally	Rooker	Alumnus	Health Behavior and Health Education		Beyond “checking the box” on implicit bias trainings: Institutionalizing a culture of learning and action for maternal health equity	Presentations describes Henry Ford Health's work on unconscious bias and respectful care in maternal and child health to address maternal and infant health disparities.	11/6/2022	2:30:00 PM	Marina III