APHA: American Public Health Association
Nov 7-11, 2009; Philadelphia, PA
RTI International is attending the American Public Health Association’s (APHA’s) 137th Annual Meeting and Exposition November 7-11, 2009, in Philadelphia, PA. The theme of this year’s conference is "Water and Public Health."
The APHA Annual Meeting is the premier public health educational forum for hearing about cutting-edge research and exceptional best practices, discovering the latest public health products and services, and sharing your public health experience with peers. Scientific sessions, networking opportunities, and other events will take place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. This year will feature more than 1,000 scientific sessions and 700 exhibits covering water and health as well as topics such as pandemic flu, environmental health, and health care reform.
While at APHA, visit the international health section of the APHA site, which contains a blog hosted and maintained by MasiMax Resources, Inc., a subsidiary of RTI.
RTI Presentations at the Conference
During the conference, public health and other experts from RTI will participate in multiple primary and secondary author presentations on a wide range of conference-based topics. In addition, we will display company information in the exhibition hall at the APHA Public Health Expo.
Schedule of RTI Presentations at APHA 2009
RTI Primary Authorship
Title: How to Be the Most Popular Epidemiologist in Your Company: Affordable Quality Approaches to Guarantee Project Director and Client Satisfaction
Authors: Victoria A. Albright, Larry Campbell
Title: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)'S Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Cross-Site Evaluation Preliminary Findings: Outcomes From the Initiative
Authors: Arnie Aldridge, Jeremy Bray
Title: Working Together to Stop TB
Authors: Jennifer Alexander
Title: Health Information Privacy and Security Collaboration (HISPC): An Overview
Authors: Alison Kathleen Banger, Stephanie C. Rizk, Robert Bailey, Linda L. Dimitropoulos
Title: Economic Evaluation of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)'S Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
Authors: Jeremy Bray, Arnie Aldridge, Zachary Wilcox
Title: SAMHSA - CSAT SBIRT Initiative: Cross-Site Evaluation
Authors: Jeremy Bray, Zachary Wilcox
Title: Health Governance and Decentralization in Rwanda
Authors: Derick W. Brinkerhoff, Catherine J. Fort, Sara Stratton
Title: "Running the Streets”: The Influence of Interpersonal and Structural Factors on Sexual Risk Among Out-of-School African American Female Adolescents in Raleigh-Durham, NC
Authors: Felicia A. Browne, Vanessa M. White, Rachel Middlesteadt Ellerson, Wendee M. Wechsberg
Title: Employee Assistance Programs and Efforts to Address Intimate Partner Violence
Authors: Monique Clinton-Sherrod, Keshia Pollack, Christine Lindquist, Whitney Austin, Tasseli McKay, Beth Lasater
Title: Intimate Partner Violence: The Impact on Employees and Their Workplace
Authors: Monique Clinton-Sherrod, Christine Lindquist, Tasseli McKay, Jennifer Hardison Walters
Title: Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexual Risk Behaviors: Comparing Teenagers and Adults in a Probability Sample of Residents of Baltimore, MD, USA
Authors: Elizabeth Eggleston, Susan M. Rogers, Charles F. Turner, Anthony Roman, Sylvia Tan, William C. Miller, Marcia Hobbs, Emily Erbelding
Title: Association of Diabetes, Eclampsia, BMI, Hypertension and Behavioral Risks With Poor Pregnancy Outcomes Among High Risk African Americans (AAs) in Washington, DC
Authors: M. Nabil El-Khorazaty, Ayman El-Mohandes, Jutta S. Thornberry, Michele Kiely
Title: Predictors of Caesarian Section in a Population of High-Risk Minority Pregnant Women in Washington, DC
Authors: M. Nabil El-Khorazaty, Michele Kiely, Ayman El-Mohandes, Marie Gantz
Title: Organizational Use of a Media Campaign Booklet to Encourage Parent-Child Communication About Waiting to Have Sex
Authors: Jennifer C. Gard, Marni L. Kan, J. Cassie Williams, Sarah B. Jones
Title: Expanding Portion Sizes—Bigger Not Always Better
Authors: Naveed Zafar Janjua, Bushra Mahmood
Title: Role of Public-Private Partnerships in the Development and Implementation of State Obesity Prevention and Control Program
Authors: Bridget Kelly, Amy Roussel, LaShawn Curtis, Pamela Williams-Piehota, Molly Lynch, Joseph Horne, Megan Gray, James C. Hersey
Title: Estimating Epilepsy Prevalence: Design, Implementation and Preliminary Results from a Population-Based Survey of Washington, DC Residents
Authors: Anne E. Kenyon, Barbara L. Kroner, Mansour Fahimi, David J. Thurman, W. Allen Hauser, William Davis Gaillard
Title: Do You Tweet – Blog – Wiki? Social Media, Aid-effectiveness and Global Health
Authors: Eckhard Kleinau
Title: Applying Information on Prescription Drug Changes to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Authors: Larry A. Kroutil, James D. Colliver, Joseph Gfroerer
Title: Religiosity Among Female Methamphetamine Users in San Francisco
Authors: Alexandra Lutnick, Jennifer Lorvick, Lynn D. Wenger, Philippe Bourgois, Jeffrey Klausner, Michèle Thorsen, Alex Kral
Title: Assessing Outcomes From the Merck Childhood Asthma Network (MCAN): Challenges and Results
Authors: Carol Anne Mansfield, Meera Viswanathan, Carol L. Woodell, Lucia Rojas Smith, Niamh Darcy, Yvonne U. Ohadike, Julie Kennedy Lesch, Floyd J. Malveaux
Title: Predictors of Endoscopic Colorectal Cancer Screening Over Time in 11 States
Authors: Lee Mobley
Title: Erosion in the Safety Net 1990-2003: Findings for Different Population Groups
Authors: Lee Mobley
Title: Mammography Utilization in 2000-2005: Trends and Disparities in Different State Policy Environments
Authors: Lee Mobley
Title: Reducing Heavy Episodic Drinking and Sexual Risk Taking Among College Freshmen: A Brief Motivational Interview (MI) Approach
Authors: W. Alexander Orr, Sarah Whittemore, Janice Brown
Title: Cigarette Smoking Patterns Following a Cardiac Event: Results From a National Survey
Authors: Scott P. Novak, Belinda Borrelli, Jamie L. Studts, Ralph S. Caraballo
Title: Achievement of Healthy People 2010 Objectives by Military Health System Beneficiaries
Authors: Caroline Reyes, Laurel L. Hourani
Title: Integration of Community Health Workers in Community-Based Asthma Interventions: Challenges and Opportunities
Authors: Lucia Rojas Smith, Meera Viswanathan, Floyd J. Malveaux
Title: Predictors of Satisfaction With Hospital Care: Communication and Trust
Authors: Pamela C. Spain, Judith T. Lynch, Harper Gordek, Patrick Chen, Lorraine Babeu
Title: Development and Evaluation of a Clinical Decision Support Tool for BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 Mutation Screening in Primary Care
Authors: Linda Squiers
Title: Introduction to and Overview of SAMHSA and CSAT's Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment Initiative
Authors: Jack B. Stein, Jeremy Bray, Susan W. Hayashi
Title: Incarceration and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in a Probability Sample
Authors: Sylvia Tan, Susan M. Rogers, Charles F. Turner, William C. Miller, Elizabeth Eggleston, Anthony Roman
Title: Perceived Learning About Food and Eating Habits of Women Participating in a Weight Loss Program
Authors: Elizabeth M. Tant, Michelle L. D'Abundo
Title: Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions (EBIs) in School Settings: The Merck Childhood Asthma Network (MCAN) Experience
Authors: Meera Viswanathan, Lucia Rojas Smith, Carol L. Woodell, Linda Lux
Title: Couples Only Know to Fight: Alcohol, Drug Use & Sex Risks in Informal Taverns of Cape Town, the Aftermath
Authors: Wendee M. Wechsberg, Rodney Fortuin, Tara Carney, Felicia A. Browne, William A. Zule, Michelle Kaufman, Bronwyn Myers, Nabila Title: El-Bassel, Rachel K. Jewkes, Charles Parry
Title: Sustainability of Intervention Effects of a Woman-Focused HIV Prevention Intervention for African American Crack-Using Women
Authors: Wendee M. Wechsberg, Scott P. Novak, William A. Zule, Alex Kral, Rachel Middlesteadt-Ellerson, Felicia A. Browne
Title: Individual, Event Level and Partnership Level Correlates of Sexual Risk in Rural and Urban Drug Users and MSM
Authors: William A. Zule, Curtis Coomes, Wendee M. Wechsberg
RTI Secondary Authorship
Title: Does Depression Increase the Risk of Poor Outcomes Associated With cHTN in African American Women
Authors: Renaisa S. Anthony, Marie Gantz, Ayman El Mohandes
Title: Characteristics of Recent Cigarette Use Initiation Among Youth: Findings From a U.S. National Survey
Authors: Ralph S. Caraballo, Scott P. Novak, Kat Asman
Title: A Comparative Analysis of Risks Associated With Tobacco, Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use During Pregnancy in a Population of African American Mothers in the District of Columbia
Authors: Ayman El-Mohandes, Marie Gantz, M. Nabil El-Khorazaty, Michele Kiely
Title: Chronic Hypertension Is a Significant Predictor of Perinatal Mortality in High-Risk African American Women in Washington DC
Authors: Ayman El-Mohandes, M. Nabil El-Khorazaty, Michele Kiely, Marie Gantz
Title: Interaction Between Sociodemographic and Psychosocial Factors on the Initiation of Breastfeeding in a Population of African American Mothers in the District of Columbia
Authors: Ayman El-Mohandes, Michele Kiely, Marie Gantz, M. Nabil El-Khorazaty
Title: Cross-Site Evaluation of Young Adults in the Workplace (YIW) Initiative: Workplace-Based Substance Abuse Prevention Programs
Authors: Deborah Galvin, Georgia Karuntzos
Title: Correlates of Quit Attempts Among Current Smokers by Race/Ethnicity—TUS-CPS 2003
Authors: Jennifer W. Kahende, Ann Malarcher, Anna Teplinskaya, Bishwa B. Adhikari, Kat Asman
Title: Predictors of Intimate Partner Violence Victimization in a Population of High-Risk Minority Pregnant Women in Washington, DC
Authors: Michele Kiely, M. Nabil El-Khorazaty, Marie Gantz, Ayman El-Mohandes
Title: Substance Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence: Behavioral Couples Therapy for Gay and Lesbian Couples
Authors: Keith Klostermann, Monique Clinton-Sherrod, William Fals-Stewart
Title: Teen Mothers at Risk for High School Failure During the First Postpartum Year
Authors: Margaret Rodan, Kathy S. Katz, Kristine M. Andrews, Julia Baidoo, Tanya Gooding, Sylvia Tan, Lauren Courtney, Siva Subramanian
Title: Assessing Coalition Capacity: Keys to Success in Local Policy Change
Authors: Miranda Spitznagle, Carol Schmitt, Kimberly Watson
Title: Relationship Interdependence and Social Support Among Men of Color: Implications for Male Lay Health Advisor Programs
Authors: Anh N. Tran, Megan Lewis, Guadalupe Ayala, Eugenia Eng
Title: Population Surveys of STIs: Bias Due to Missing Biological Specimens
Authors: Charles F. Turner, Susan M. Rogers
Title: Beyond Claims Data: Assessing the Problem of Access to Radiation Therapy for Low-Income Women With Breast Cancer
Authors: Bryan Weiner, William R. Carpenter, Lisa Richardson, Judith Lee Smith, Megan Lewis, Jeffrey Peppercorn, J. Timothy Whitmire, Sarah P. Walden, Dawn Bergmire-Sweat
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