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APHA 2016 ANNUAL MEETING • DENVER, CO
Tuesday, November 1
12:45 p.m. Health and climate change: An
international perspective—
Mona Sarfaty,
MD MPH
1:05 p.m. Activities supporting developing
countries to adapt to climate change—
Kristie Ebi, Ph.D., MPH
Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Environment, Peace Caucus, Vietnam
Caucus
CE Credits: CME, CHES, CNE, CPH
4234.0
CCC, 708
Global issues in mental health
Moderator(s): Evelyn Cherow, MA, MPA,
12:43 p.m. Help seeking behaviors and suicidal
thoughts and behaviors Among
Adolescents in China, Taiwan, and
Thailand—
Jingjing Niu, Ph.D
12:56 p.m. Barriers and facilitators of substance
abuse treatment in Ghana (West Africa):
A social-ecological perspective using
Photovoice—
Ahmed Kabore, DrPH
1:09 p.m. Prevalence and determinants of
postpartum depression among
Mongolian Women—
Mellissa Withers,
PhD, MHS
1:22 p.m. Exploring the relationship between
resilience and psychosocial outcomes
among South African adolescents
affected by HIV—
Ashleigh LoVette, MA
Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Vietnam Caucus
CE Credits: CME, CHES, CNE, CPH
4235.0
CCC, 710
The Global Non Communicable Disease
Epidemic Analysis and Opportunities
Moderator(s): Mark Strand, PhD
12:30 p.m. Considerations for Non-Communicable
Diseases Among Indigenous
Populations—
Donald Warne, MD, MPH
12:50 p.m. Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries,
and Risk Factors 2015 Study (GBD
2015): Preliminary findings on non-
communicable diseases—
Ali Mokdad,
PhD
1:10 p.m. Effective strategies to address the
global non-communicable disease
epidemic—
Paurvi Bhatt, MPH
1:30 p.m. Innovative approaches by community
health workers for NCD prevention and
treatment—
Paula Worby, MPH, DrPH
Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Chiropractic Health Care, Vietnam Caucus
4236.0
CCC, 712
War and Health
Moderator(s): Amy Hagopian, PhD
12:30 p.m. Urgency of addressing attacks on health
care (Kunduz, Syria, Yemen)—
Leonard
Rubenstein, JD
12:42 p.m. Afghanistan’s blood supply system in
the setting of 4 decades of war: An
illustration of progress and frustration—
Ahmad Rahmani, MD, MBA, MHA
12:54 p.m. Career intentions of Iraqi medical
school students—
Riyadh Lafta, MD, PhD
1:06 p.m. Injury rates and characteristics in
Baghdad since the 2003 invasion (Amy
Hagopian)—
Amy Hagopian, PhD
1:18 p.m. From Ferguson to Palestine: The
merging of pro-peace social
movements across continents and
the role of health professionals in that
effort—
Cindy Sousa, MSW, MPH, PhD
Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Peace Caucus, Vietnam Caucus
CE Credits: CME, CHES, CNE, CPH
4237.0 HRD, Centennial Ballroom G/H
Protecting and Promoting Health Using
Legal Levers
Moderator(s): Benjamin Meier
Table 1 Law and Policy’s Role in Leveraging
Oral Health Services: The Healthy
People 2020 Law and Health Policy
Project—
Clemencia Vargas, DDS, PhD
Table 2 Law and Policy as Health Improvement
Tools: The Healthy People 2020 Law and
Health Policy Project—
Angela McGowan,
JD, MPH
Table 3 Connecting Civil Legal Aid and the
Social Determinants of Health through
the Medical Legal Partnership Model—
Mary Kennelly, JD, MPH
Table 4 Law, Epidemiology and Transplantation:
Insights from Writing and Supporting
the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act—
Macey
Henderson, JD, PhD(c)
Table 5 Creating healthier communities: How
zoning, land-use and licensure laws
can be used as a proactive public health
intervention—
Ryan Patrick, JD
Table 6 Youth Sports TBI Laws: Evaluating
Effects of Evidence-Based Policy Design
and Law Revision on Rates of Initial and
Recurrent Concussions—
Hosea Harvey,
JD, PhD
Table 7 Using global human rights norms to
hold states accountable in domestic
courts: Implications of justiciability
of right to health for maternal health
injustices—
Surma Das, PhD Candidate
(ABD)
Table 8 Considering Jurisprudential
Alternatives to the Normative
Framework for Sex Crime Adjudication:
Case Studies in Therapeutic
Jurisprudence and Restorative Justice—
Elise Lopez, DrPH (ABD), MPH
Table 9 Informing Health IT Policy to Advance
Health Equity: Collecting Meaningful
Demographic Data in Electronic Health
Records—
Megan Douglas, JD
Table 10 Analyzing National Public Health Laws
to Assess Realization of the Global
Health Security Agenda—
Benjamin
Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD
Organized by: Law
Endorsed by: Human Rights Forum, Vietnam Caucus
4238.0
HRD, Mineral Hall D
Preventing Infectious Disease: State Vaccine
Laws
Moderator(s): Andy Baker-White, JD, MPH
12:30 p.m. Better Protection against Vaccine-
Preventable Disease: Designing Legal
Solutions—
Donna E. Levin, JD
12:45 p.m. Enforcing and Defending Vaccine
Mandates: The Need for Allies and
Support—
Thomas Merrill
1:00 p.m. Engaging the Community and Building
Political Will for Immunization Policy—
Anna Dragsbaek, JD
1:15 p.m. Senate Bill 277’s “Grandfather Clause”
and Nonmedical Vaccine Exemptions
in California: A Spatiotemporal
Analysis—
Y. Tony Yang, ScD, LLM, MPH
1:30 p.m. Legal Responsibilities of Healthcare
Facilities Regarding Antibiotic Resistant
Organisms—
Nicholas Anderson, JD
Organized by: Law
Endorsed by: Vietnam Caucus
4239.0
CCC, 709
Trans/Gender-variant People and/or Social
Determinants of Health
Moderator(s): DeMarc Hickson, PhD
12:30 p.m. Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Mental
Health, Drinking Patterns, and Sexual
Risk Behaviors among Latino Men Who
Have Sex With Men—
Ethan Levine, MA
12:43 p.m. Transgender Women in a Binary World:
Violence and Social Support—
Natalia
Truszczynski, MPH
12:56 p.m. “We don’t treat your kind”: Social
determinants of HIV prevention and
care in the context of competing health
needs among transgender people in
Jackson, Mississippi—
Amaya Perez-
Brumer, MSc
1:09 p.m. Determinants of routine healthcare for
transgender women residing in New
York City—
Sitaji Gurung, MD, MPH
1:22 p.m. Psychological and social determinants
of engagement in sexual risk behavior
among trans*female youth ages 16-24
years in San Francisco—
Caitlin Turner,
MPH Candidate
Organized by: LGBT Caucus of Public Health
Professionals
Endorsed by: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs,
American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian
Caucus, Community Health Planning and Policy
Development, Human Rights Forum, Population,
Reproductive and Sexual Health
CE Credits: CME, CHES, CNE, CPH
4240.0
CCC, 501
Examining Trafficked Youth from a Public
Health Perspective (AYAH)
Moderator(s): Brittany Chambers, MPH, CHES
12:30 p.m. Homeless and Young in the US: Risk
Factors for Being Trafficked—
Makini
Chisolm-Straker, MD, MPH
12:50 p.m. Human Trafficking and the
Unaccompanied Minor Crisis: Ensuring
the Right to Screening and Specialized
Services—
Alison Boak, Masters of
Public Health
1:10 p.m. Shifting the paradigm: Creating a public
health response to trafficked youth—
Susie Baldwin, MD, MPH
Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Black Caucus of Health Workers,
Caucus on Homelessness, Peace Caucus, Population,
Reproductive and Sexual Health, Women’s Caucus
CE Credits: CME, CHES, CNE, CPH
2:00–2:30 & 2:30 –3:30