APHA Annual Meeting 2019

APHA’s Annual Meeting and Expo – the largest and most influential annual gathering of public health professionals – is being held November 2–6 in Philadelphia, PA. APHA identifies and shares innovative strategies to demonstrate how cooperation between organizations, governments, communities, public health disciplines and the public can improve health outcomes.

This year’s theme is “Creating the Healthiest Nation: For science. For action. For health.” and will address these three core principles that guide our work as public health professionals. Join us to explore how science, action and health can help us create the healthiest nation and see what RTI’s experts are doing to address these areas.

Stop by Booth #801 to play our trivia game and test your knowledge of today's largest public health challenges.

RTI's research experts will be presenting throughout the conference during the poster sessions, roundtables, film festival and more. Check out the list of RTI presentations below and visit the APHA website to learn more about the work our experts will be presenting.

Sunday, November 3, 2019

2072.0 - International MCH Poster Session
3:30 PM–4:30 PM
Dimensions of Maternal Agency and the Influence on Access to and Use of Child Health Services in India
Mariam Siddiqui*

2087.0 - Issues related to caregiving and long-term care for older adults [Poster Session]
5:00 PM–6:00 PM
Nursing home facility-initiated involuntary discharge: A systematic review
Michael Lepore*, Patricia Yuen*, Samantha Zepeda

Monday, November 4, 2019

3086.0 - International Health Poster Session - Child Health and Development
10:30 AM–11:30 AM
Zika epidemic 4 years later: Neurodevelopmental and health profiles of children with Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS) in Northeastern Brazil
Danielle Toth*, Anne Wheeler*, Camila Ventura, Raine Borba, Claudia Marques, Lucelia Nobrega, Liana Ventura, Don Bailey*

3119.0 - Using economic evidence to support investments on noncommunicable disease interventions in the Americas
10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Objectives, methods and outcomes of country-led investment cases on noncommunicable diseases
Rachel Nugent*

3127.0 - Research for Action: Moving toward solutions to poverty and homelessness (Part 1 of 2)
10:30 AM–12:00 PM
“They're Stealing Our Nothing”: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of San Francisco's Displacement of People Experiencing Homelessness
Joey Chiang, Alex H. Kral*, Colette Auerswald, Ricky N. Bluthenthal

3190.0 - Poster Session: Cancer Survivorship
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
Evaluation of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's (LLS) Information Resource Center (IRC)
Nikie Sarris Esquivel*, Kara Suvada*, Caroline Husick*, Katherine Treiman*, Catherine Gupta*, Maria Sae-Hau, Meredith Barnhart, Kate Disare, Elisa Weiss, Michael Halpern*

3195.0 - EPI Poster Session C2: GLOBAL HEALTH
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
What happens when the researchers leave? Post-intervention sustainability of an implementation science trial of a woman-focused intervention in South African health facilities
Margaret Gichane*, Jacqueline Ndirangu*, Brittni Howard*, Felicia A. Browne*, William A. Zule*, Wendee M. Wechsberg*

3216.0 - Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias | Moderator: Lisa Lines*
1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Socioeconomic disparities in the timely diagnosis of dementia
Lindsay White*, Paul Fishman, Norma Coe

3348.0 - Using Community Health Data to Inform Decision-Making
3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Building Capacity for Large Evaluation of Social Determinants in an FQHC setting
Danielle Lazar, Jonathan Blitstein*, Kathleen Gregory

3375.0 - Closing the Gap: Roundtable on Addressing Mental Health Impacts of Discrimination & Parity
3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Exploring the intersection of multiple social identities and ADHD diagnosis
Meredith Bergey, Giuseppina Chiri*, Nikki Freeman

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

4042.0 - HIV Care Continuum Across the Globe
8:30 AM–10:00 AM
Can We End HIV Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa? Key Challenges with PrEP
Wendee M. Wechsberg*, Khatija Ahmed, Jacqueline Ndirangu*, Felicia A. Browne*, Courtney Bonner*, Ilene Speizer, Alexandra Minnis, Laura Nyblade*, Brittni Howard*

4075.0 - HIIT Poster Session 2 - Interoperability and Data Sharing
9:00 AM–10:00 AM
Electronic integration of enrollment and survey data and custom call lists to facilitate follow-up events for a complex year-long clinical study
Sue Pedrazzani*, Frank Mierzwa*, Charlie Knott*, Mai Nguyen*, Steve Gomori*, Sridevi Sattaluri*

4092.0 - Breastfeeding Poster Session
10:30 AM–11:30 AM
Preliminary data on breastfeeding history and its relation to infant sleep environment and maternal sleep quality
Yukiko Washio*, Shatane Taylor, Bradley Collins, Gail Herrine

4202.0 - Poster Session 5: Sexual, reproductive, and maternal health issues
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
Parenting stress, anxiety, and depression among caregivers of children with Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS) in Northeastern Brazil
Danielle Toth*, Anne Wheeler*, Camila Ventura, Lucelia Nobrega, Raine Borba, Claudia Marques, Liana Ventura, Don Bailey*

FF10 - Health of the Vulnerable [APHA Public Health Film Festival]
1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Utilizing an electronic permission portal to reach every birthing mother in North Carolina: Early Check whiteboard videos and portal
Katherine Porter*, Blake Harper*

4253.0 - ROUNDTABLE: Advances in HIV
1:30 PM–2:30 PM
Associations between illicit fentanyl use and HIV-related injection risk among people who inject drugs
Barrot Lambdin*, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, Jon Zibbell*, Lynn Wenger*, Kelsey Simpson, Alex H. Kral*

4289.0 - CHPPD Poster Session 6
3:00 PM–4:00 PM
Assessing the relationship between community grantee activities and policy change in Florida
Lauren Grattan*, Carol Schmitt*, Lauren Porter

4386.0 - Big Data Analytics for Public Health Research
5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Machine learning innovations in estimation and analytics for large national health surveys
Steven Cohen*

*RTI International Researcher