14th International Women’s and Children’s Health and Gender (InWomen’s) Group Conference

Conference Opening
Wendee M. Wechsberg, PhD, InWomen's Chair

Poetry 
Tegan Carr, Poetess

Special Guest
Tetiana Kiriazova, PhD, Executive Director, Ukrainian Institute on
Public Health Policy

Panel I: Women’s Intersectional Burden: Substance Use, Stigma, Criminal Justice, and Drug Trafficking
Moderated by Vasundhara Varthakavi (Kavi), DVM, PhD, NIDA

Intersections of Gender, Justice-Involved, Stigma, Harm Reduction,
and Substance Use among “Sex Workers” and Women Living with HIV
in Vancouver
Andrea Krusi, PhD

Associations Between Drug Overdose and Experiences of Violence
Among Women in Community Supervision in New York City
Dawn Goddard-Eckrich, EdD, MSS

Gender and the Illicit Drug Trade: The Role of Women and Children
in Transporting Small Quantities of Illicit Drugs in Kenya
Bernice Apondi, MA

Panel Discussion Q&A

Panel II: Current State of Gender-focused Substance Use
Treatment and Prevention Interventions: Globally and in the U.S.
Moderated by Courtney Peasant Bonner, PhD, RTI International

Substance Use Among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender
Women in Southern Vietnam: Associated Factors for Informing HIV
and STI Prevention and Intervention Programs
Vu Thi Tuong Vi, MPH

Building Capacity to Increase Sexual Health and Substance Misuse
Prevention Services in Adolescent Behavioral Health Treatment
Josephine Korchmaros, PhD, MA

Women Living with HIV in a US-Mexico border region: Pilot test of a
Peer Navigation Intervention addressing Substance use, Human
Trafficking, and Intimate Partner Violence
Lianne A. Urada, PhD, MSW, LCSW

Panel Discussion Q&A

Panel III: Why it Matters: Understanding the Implications of
Using Drugs While Pregnant
Moderated by Yukiko Washio, PhD, RTI International

Women’s Perspectives on Nicotine and Cannabis Vaping during
Pregnancy and Postpartum
Julie Stinson, MA

Group Prenatal Care for Pregnant Women with OUD: Preliminary
Evidence for Benefits over Individual Prenatal Care
Dennis Hand, PhD

Reproductive Outcomes in Young Women Arrested for
Methamphetamine Use in Taiwan: The Potential Role of Deferred
Prosecution
Chuan-Yu Chen, PhD

Advancing the Inclusion of Alcohol Policy on Women’s Health and Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention
Lindsay Wolfson, MPH

We need a new “New Normal”
Dianne Clarke, PhD, CAP

Panel Discussion Q&A

Panel IV: Sisterhood, Survival and Recovery: From Support
Groups to Provider-based Trainings
Moderated by Felicia Browne, ScD, RTI International

MANAS: Women Surviving Multiple Forms of Violence Fighting Back
the War on Drugs
Joana Canedo, MA

Wellbeing in Transgender Clients – Evaluation of New Model of
Training for Professionals in Czech Republic, Italy, Spain
Pavla Dolezalova, PhD

Building Capacity and Collaboration to Identify and Respond to
Interpersonal Violence (IPV) and HIV-Related Risks Within
Community-Based Organizations
Ashley Simons-Rudolph, PhD

And Bad Mistakes, I’ve Made a Few: Coming Full Circle from
Addiction to Science
Deni Carise, PhD