193 / 394
187
CCC = COLORADO CONVENTION CENTER
HRD = HYATT REGENCY DENVER
TAB 3
4:30–5:30 & 4:30–6:00
5:30 p.m. Effect of Media on Hepatitis B Screening
among Vietnamese Americans—
Janet N.
Chu, MD, MPH
Organized by: Asian & Pacific Islander Caucus for
Public Health
Endorsed by: APHA-Committee on Women’s Rights,
Vietnam Caucus, Women’s Caucus
4372.0
HRD, Centennial Ballroom A
Chronic Diseases: Prevention, screening
and management techniques addressing
the impact on African American disease
progression
Moderator(s): Robyn Espinosa
4:30 p.m. Education Program to Increase
Colorectal Cancer Screening in African
Americans—
Thomas Britt, MD, MPH
4:45 p.m. Factors Associated with Routine and
Urgent Healthcare Utilization among
African American Youth with Sickle Cell
Disease—
Evelyn Stevens, MPH
5:00 p.m. Perceptions, awareness, and barriers
to care regarding obesity and diabetes
among African-Americans in Miami and
Escambia, Florida . A qualitative study—
Tonya Samuel, EdD, M.S.P.H.
5:15 p.m. Y’all come! Reaching African American
men for a chronic disease prevention
study in the Southeastern U.S.: Lessons
Learned—
Melicia C. Whitt-Glover, Ph.D.
5:30 p.m. Rural Health System and Local
Churches Collaborate to Address
Chronic Disease in African Americans—
Amy Riedesel, MPA, CIRS-A
Organized by: Black Caucus of Health Workers
Endorsed by: APHA-Committee on Women’s Rights,
Applied Public Health Statistics, Caucus on Public Health
and the Faith Community, Community Health Planning
and Policy Development
4373.0
CCC, 405
Breastfeeding Oral Session: Closing the Gap
in Breastfeeding Disparities
Moderator(s): Catherine Sullivan, MPH, RD, LDN,
IBCLC
4:30 p.m. CHAMPS Initiative: Integrating
Communities for Reducing
Breastfeeding Disparities—
Kimarie
Bugg, FNP-BC, MSN, CLC
4:50 p.m. Effect of a breastfeeding promotion
and support initiative on exclusive
breastfeeding in a low-income
population—
Lynn Edmunds, DrPH, MS,
RD
5:30 p.m. CDC’s EMPower Breastfeeding
Initiative: Addressing health disparities
through changes in hospital policies
and practices—
Cynthia Klein, PhD
Organized by: Breastfeeding
Endorsed by: APHA-Committee on Women’s Rights,
Community Health Planning and Policy Development,
Human Rights Forum, Socialist Caucus, Women’s
Caucus
CE Credits: CME, CHES, CNE, CPH
4374.0
HRD, Mineral Hall F
Cancer Care in Africa—Collaborative session
between Cancer Forum and International
Health
Moderator(s): Daisy DeWeese-Gatt, MPH
4:30 p.m. Fear of death and the loss of body
parts: Knowledge about cancer and
basic health seeking behaviors among
women in Nakirebe, Uganda—
Ann
Louise Tezak, BA
4:50 p.m. Access to chemoradiotherapy for
cervical cancer in Zambia: When cost of
therapy is not a barrier—
Mulele Kalima,
BSc, MPH
5:10 p.m. Late diagnosis of cervical cancer in
Zambian women: A retrospective
analysis of the Cancer Diseases
Hospital patient data—
Mulele Kalima,
BSc, MPH
5:30 p.m. Facilitators and barriers to cervical
cancer screening in rural western
Kenya—
Holly Nishimura, BA
Organized by: Cancer Forum
Endorsed by: APHA-Committee on Women’s Rights,
International Health, Women’s Caucus
CE Credits: CME, CHES, CNE, CPH
4375.0
HRD, Centennial Ballroom F
Faith-based Approaches to Mental Health
Moderator(s): Sarah Peterson, MPH
4:30 p.m. Finding Peace: The Role of the Church
in Reducing Postpartum Depression
among Mothers of Color—
Robert H.
Keefe, PhD, ACSW, LMSW
4:50 p.m. Exploring the Role of Campus Ministry
Leaders in Student Mental Health at a
Large Public University in the Southeast
United States—
Charis Davidson, MPH,
CHES, DrPH Candidate
5:10 p.m. Discrimination, Religiosity, and Health
among Arab Americans: An Analysis
Using the 2003 Detroit Arab American
Study—
Tassnym Sinky, MPH
5:30 p.m. Assessing mental health awareness and
knowledge of potential consequences
among African American youth: Early
results from an academic and faith-
based partnership for mental health
programming in the church—
Jamie C.
Freeny, MPH
Organized by: Caucus on Public Health and the Faith
Community
Endorsed by: Black Caucus of Health Workers, Women’s
Caucus
4376.0
HRD, Capital Ballroom 2
The Right to health, Affordable Care Act
(ACA), and health of refugee and immigrant
populations
4:30 p.m. Bridging the gap in the Big Easy:
Immigrant children and access to
healthcare—
Maria Scigliano, MS/MSW
4:43 p.m. Assimilation and Access to Health Care
for Arab Americans: An Affordable Care
Act Baseline Survey—
Harry Perlstadt,
PhD, MPH
4:56 p.m. Amendment of Health Care Coverage
for the Undocumented Population:
Analysis of the Health for All Act (SB
No. 4) within a Policy Implementation
Framework—
Elizabeth Holguin, MPH,
MSN, FNP-BC
5:09 p.m. ActionHealthNYC: New York City’s new
health access program for uninsured
immigrants—
Rishi Sood, MPH
5:22 p.m. Identifying barriers to MMR vaccination
to improve future health education
interventions among refugee Somali
mothers in King County Washington—
Consuelo Echeverria, MFA, MPHc
Organized by: Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant
Health
Endorsed by: Black Caucus of Health Workers, Socialist
Caucus, Vietnam Caucus, Women’s Caucus
4376.1
CCC, 403
Community Health Planning and Policy
Development: Child Health and Health
Equity
4:30 p.m. Children Living in Poverty: An Analysis
of Cross-Sector Associations—
Mara
Howard-Williams, MPH candidate
4:50 p.m. Children as Bellwethers of Recovery—
David Abramson, PhD, MPH
5:10 p.m. Improved childcare standards for
healthier children: A policy approach—
Joanne Richter, MS
5:30 p.m. State regulations related to equity
in childhood obesity at baseline and
during the first 2 years of the Voices for
Health Kids initiative—
Pam Muthuuri,
MPH
Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy
Development
Endorsed by: Applied Public Health Statistics, Black
Caucus of Health Workers, Women’s Caucus
4376.2
CCC, 402
Community Health Programs to Reduce
Obesity and Increase Physical Activity
4:30 p.m. Understanding and Addressing Social
Norms around Eating Behaviour:
Findings from a University Residential
College in Singapore—
Shelley Jung,
MSPH
4:50 p.m. Measuring the Effectiveness of a
Free Community-Based Weight Loss
Intervention Program: Healthy You—
Nicole Mayo, B.S., ACSM—CPT
5:10 p.m. Community engagement to inform a
new community-based intervention
focused on physical activity and healthy
eating in New Orleans—
Jeanette Gustat,
PhD
5:30 p.m. Local Health Jurisdictions Demonstrate
Relationships between Population-
focused Physical Activity Interventions
and Obesity Outcomes: A Five-State
Study—
Betty Bekemeier, RN, PhD, FAAN
Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy
Development
Endorsed by: Applied Public Health Statistics, Black
Caucus of Health Workers