| The research of about 75 faculty and staff members and students from the UNC schools of public health and medicine will be on display at the 136th annual meeting and exposition of the American Public Health Association, Oct. 25-29, in San Diego, Calif.
More than 12,000 participants are expected to attend this year’s conference at the San Diego Convention Center, the theme of which is “Public Health Without Borders.”
A list of presenters from the Gillings School of Global Public Health appears below. A full description, including session abstracts and a listing of UNC presenters outside the school, also is available. Presentations from the North Carolina Institute for Public Health are listed separately online.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25
Saturday, October 25 at 9:45 a.m.
Evidence-Based Health Practice: Construct a strategic and valuable search strategy
Mellanye J. Lackey, MSI, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Saturday, October 25 at 10 a.m.
Evidence-Based Public Health Database Searching: Know where to look for good-quality information
Mellanye J. Lackey, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26
Sunday, October 26
Process Evaluation of North Carolina Trimming Risk in Men (TRIM) Project: Success and challenges of promoting cancer prevention in Black barbershops
Jiang Li, PhD; Laura Linnan, ScD; John M. Rose, MA; Michael Scott; and Pamela Diggs (Dept. of Health Behavior and Health Education) Veronica Carlisle, MPH, and Correai Moore (UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center)
Sunday, October 26
Implementation and analysis of the Short Supplemental Youth Tobacco Survey focusing on North Carolina’s American Indian youth (grades 6-12)
Shannon Fleg, UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27
Monday, October 27 at 11 a.m.
North Carolina Local Health Department Accreditation: Evaluation and Research Strategies to Inform National Accreditation
Mary Davis, DrPH, MSPH; Margaret M. Cannon, MPH; Rachel Stevens, EdD, RN; David Stone; and Edward L. Baker, MD, MPH, MSC (North Carolina Institute for Public Health)
Monday, October 27
School connectedness, parent relationship quality, and adolescent risk behavior
Abigail A. Haydon, MPH, and Carolyn T. Halpern, PhD (Dept. of Maternal and Child Health)
Monday, October 27 at 11:30 a.m.
Reducing poor birth outcomes by improving interconception care for high-risk women
Sarah Verbiest, MPH, MSW (UNC Center for Maternal and Infant Health)
Monday, October 27 at 12:50 p.m.
Results of a community pilot intervention to prevent obesity beginning in infancy
Tam Lutz, MPH, MHA (doctoral student, Dept. of Health Policy and Management)
Monday, October 27 at 3:30 p.m.
Detecting Demographic Variations of AIDS Mortality in Florida – A New Application of Spatio-Temporal Analysis
Ella T. Nkhoma, MPH (Dept. of Epidemiology)
Monday, October 27 at 4:30 p.m.
Cancer Care and Racial Equity Study (CCARES): An Innovative Community and Academic Model for Investigating Disparities in Systems of Breast Cancer Care
Eugenia Eng, MPH, DrPH, and Dinushika Mohottige (Dept. of Health Behavior and Health Education); Jim Amell, PhD (W.K. Kellogg Health Scholar)
Monday, October 27
HIV Prevention among People Living with HIV: The Effect of Motivational Interviewing on Safer Sex Self-efficacy
Zulfiya Chariyeva, MPH, and Jo Anne Earp, ScD (Dept. of Health Behavior and Health Education); Carol E. Golin, MD, MPH; Jennifer S. Groves, MBA; and Catherine A. Grodensky, MPH (Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research); D. Leann Long, MS, and Chirayath M. Suchindran, PhD (Dept. of Biostatistics).
Monday, October 27
Sex differences in spouse abuse by Army soldiers
Kristen Sullivan, MSW, MA; J. Michael Bowling, PhD; and Brenda Devellis, PhD (Dept. of Health Behavior and Health Education); Sandra L. Martin, PhD (Dept. of Maternal and Child Health)
Monday, October 27
An evaluation of recruitment and retention strategies among Asian American women in the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program
Laura Linnan, ScD, and Allan Steckler, DrPH (Dept. of Health Behavior and Health Education); Bryan Weiner, PhD (Dept. of Health Policy and Management)
Monday, October 27
Farm to School: Addressing obesity and school nutrition through local food systems
Amy E. Paxton, doctoral candidate; Alice Ammerman, DrPH, RD; and Phyllis Flemming, PhD (Dept. of Nutrition); Suzanne Havala-Hobbs, DrPH (Dept. of Health Policy and Management)
Monday, October 27 at 5:15 p.m.
Critical Incident Technique interview: An innovative CBPR method for amplifying the voices of women on their breast cancer care
Eugenia Eng, MPH, DrPH, and Dinushika Mohottige (Dept. of Health Behavior and Health Education)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28
Tuesday, October 28 at 8:30 a.m.
Understanding HIV disclosure among African-Americans and Latinos in the rural southeast to increase access to needed services and support
Bahby Banks, MPH; Malika Roman Isler, MPH; and Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc (Cecil B. Sheps Center for Health Services Research)
Tuesday, October 28 at 8:30 a.m.
Living with HIV/AIDS in rural NC – An exploration of the physical and socio-cultural environmental barriers
Malika Roman Isler, MPH; Bahby Banks, MPH; JoiAisha Bland, MPH; Michelle Hayes; Giselle Corbie Smith, MD, MSc (Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research)
Tuesday, October 28 at 9:30 a.m.
Combining socio-spatial methods to understand social and physical environmental contributors to HIV risk in rural minority communities
Giselle Corbie-SMith, MD, MSc, and Malika Roman Isler, MPH (Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research)
Tuesday, October 28 at 9:30 a.m.
Pay It Forward: Dissemination of Evidence-Informed Interventions to Public Health Practitioners
Susanne Schmal, MPH; Janice Sommers, MPH; and Alice Ammerman, DrPH, RD (Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention)
Tuesday, October 28 at 11:05 a.m.
Ambivalence regarding breastfeeding by health professionals
Mary Rose Tully, MPH, IBCLC (Global Breastfeeding Institute at Carolina, Dept. of Maternal and Child Health)
Tuesday, October 28 at 12:30 p.m.
An innovative approach to global doctoral leadership training for working health professionals
Suzanne Havala Hobbs, DrPH, MS, RD, LD; Edward F. Brooks, DrPH; Leah Masselink (Dept. of Health Policy and Management)
Tuesday, October 28 at 2:50 p.m.
A food-marketing and environmental change intervention to promote fruit and vegetable consumption among Latinos through food stores: Vida Sana Hoy y Mañana
Laura Linnan, ScD (Dept. of Health Behavior and Health Education)
Tuesday, October 28 at 4:30 p.m.
Weight Loss Results of Web-based Program and Cash Incentives on Weight Loss Among Employees in 17 Community Colleges
Laura Linnan, ScD, and Deborah Tate, PhD (Dept. of Health Behavior and Health Education); Ziya Gizlice, PhD (Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention);
Kant Bangdiwala, PhD (Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Dept. of Biostatistics)
Tuesday, October 28 at 4:45 p.m.
Partnerships with African American Churches in NC: The Integration of Health Education and Ministry to Promote Healthy Eating, Physical Activity, and Body Image among African American Children
Dawnavan S. Davis, PhD; Pamela Diggs, MPH; Nancy DeSousa, MPH; and Laura Linnan, ScD (Dept. of Health Behavior and Health Education); Jan Dodds, EdD (Dept. of Nutrition)
Tuesday, October 28 at 4:45 p.m.
Advancing evidence-based practice through web-based technology
Kelly L. Nordby, MPH, RD; Avia G. Mainor, and Janice Sommers, MPH (Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention)
Tuesday, October 28
Older Latina women, marital status, and cancer screening
Deborah E. Bender, PhD, MPH (Dept. of Health Policy and Management)
Tuesday, October 28
Quality improvement and accreditation: Introducing the IHI Model for Improvement to public health departments in Florida
Cheryll Lesneski, DrPH (Public Health Leadership Program)
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29
Wednesday, October 29 at 11:05 a.m.
Does BFHI make a difference? Overview of existing studies of impact on exclusive breastfeeding and later health
Miriam Labbok, MD, MPH, FACPM (Global Breastfeeding Institute at Carolina, Dept. of Maternal Child Health)
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, (919) 966-7467, ramona_dubose@unc.edu.
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