Highlights to Include New Research on HIV Screening, Pandemic Flu, Neonatal Genetic Screening, Food Safety And School Bullying
Washington, D.C., October 17, 2007 – More than 13,000 public health professionals will meet in Washington, D.C., Nov. 3-7 to address the nation’s top public health challenges at the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) 135th Annual Meeting.
The conference will feature leading experts, researchers and practitioners presenting the latest public health science at nearly a thousand sessions on significant public health issues such as tobacco control, health disparities, HIV/AIDS, newborn screening, reproductive health, chronic disease control and prevention, pandemic influenza and preparedness. Themed "Politics, Policy and Public Health," the meeting will explore the critical interactions between the political process and public health policy-making, as tools to ensure the public's health.
The meeting kicks off Sunday, Nov. 4, with presentations by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, and Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. Sanjay Gupta, MD, a practicing neurosurgeon and award-winning journalist with CNN, will speak at the Closing Session on Wednesday, Nov. 7. In between, more than 900 scientific sessions will provide the most up-to-date public health research reflecting the broad impact of the field on our lives.
The online press registration deadline is Friday, Oct. 26. After this date, reporters must register on site at the APHA Press Office in Room 101 of the Washington Convention Center. The full Annual Meeting program and abstracts are available online at http://www.apha.org/meetings/sessions/. Final programs with session locations, along with daily highlights and other press materials, will be available on site at the APHA Press Office. All research is embargoed until the date and time of presentation.
Meeting highlights include:
Session 2038.0 - Student Research on U.S. and Global MCH Issues
Sunday, November 04, 2007: 2:30 PM-3:30 PM - Board 9
Featured poster: Welfare reform and infant health: The impact of mandatory maternal employment (Abstract #161739)
Session 3003.0 - Unique Alcohol Issues: Gender, Race, & Ethnicity
Monday, November 05, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Featured presentation: Racial/ethnic differences in alcohol-involvement among drivers fatally injured in traffic crashes: United States, 2003–2004 (Abstract # 162716)
Session 3005.1 - Late Breaking Developments in Public Health
Monday, November 05, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
- Extremely Multiple Resistant Tuberculosis: An update
- Update on studies of recovery workers at the World Trade Center site
- New developments in the crisis in Darfur
- Update on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
- Clinical depression: Update on a leading public health problem
- Update on public health problems associated with Hurricane Katrina
Session 3031.0 - Marketing To Children
Monday, November 05, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
- Targeting minority kids: A cross-disciplinary approach to regulating harmful marketing
- Regulating marketing to children: Dispelling corporate myths and creating partnership opportunities
- SpongeBob SugarPants? The imbalance of foods advertised on children's television
- Television food and beverage advertising in 2006
- Lessons learned from tobacco control: Affecting product marketing by regulating the marketplace
Session 3038.0 - Emerging Issues and Lessons Learned Regarding HIV Screening
Monday, November 05, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
- Resident Participation in a City-wide HIV Screening Campaign, Washington, DC, 06–07
- Lessons Learned from the District of Columbia's Initiative to Implement Routine Screening for HIV
- Acceptance of Opt-out Routine Screening for HIV Infection at an Urban Emergency Department Following New Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guidelines
Session 3148.0 - Pregnancy Intendedness in the US
Monday, November 05, 2007: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Oral
- Exploring key dimension of pregnancy intentions
- Contextual Analysis of Unintended Pregnancy among Married Women: Policy Implications
- Impact of psychosocial health on pregnancy intention
- Pleasures of pregnancy ambivalence: A qualitative analysis of intermittent contraceptive use and unintended pregnancy among U.S. women and men
Session 3178.0 - Posters on Suicide and Self Harm
Monday, November 05, 2007: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Featured poster: Suicide-related hospitalized attempts among teens and young adults in the United States (Abstract #153159)
Session 3214.0 - Violence Epidemiology
Monday, November 05, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Featured presentation: Violent death associated with specific HLA haplotypes: A preliminary survey of deceased American organ donors (Abstract #159377)
Session 3232.0 - How Should We Rein in Health Care Costs, and When Can We Start?
Monday, November 05, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
- Achieving savings to improve health system performance
- Cutting health costs and covering everyone well by negotiating political, financial, clinical, and legal peace treaties with doctors, hospitals, and drug makers
Session 3254.0 - Adolescent Reproductive Health and Safer Sex
Monday, November 05, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Featured presentation: Methodology to assess college student risk taking behavior in social networking sites (Abstract #151754)
Session 3257.0 - Pandemic Flu and Katrina's Lessons Lost: A Technical, Political, and Historical Critique of the CDC Preparedness Plans
Monday, November 05, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
- CDC flu pandemic guidelines: Repeating the disastrous errors of Katrina
- Vaccination shortages: Recurring error or criminal negligence?
- Resurrection of Extinct Pathogens: A Smart Move?
- Healthcare Implications of the Katrina Disaster Planning: A case based approach from the Common Ground Health Clinic
- Will the military take over response to a flu pandemic?
Session 3248.0 - Television and its Messages
Monday, November 05, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Featured presentation: Risk factors for aggressive behavior among 3 year olds: Does television viewing play a role? (Abstract # 146856)
Session 3285.0 - Health and Obesity
Monday, November 05, 2007: 2:30 PM-3:30 PM - Board 6
Featured poster: Geographic variations in obesity: A multilevel study of BRFSS data (Abstract #159402)
Session 3315.0 - Twenty Years After Toxic Wastes and Race: Its Legacy for Environmental Health
Monday, November 05, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Panel Discussion:
- Charles Lee, Office of Environmental Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Kenneth Olden, Harvard School of Public Health
- Peggy Shepard, West Harlem Environmental Action
- Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH, Director, NCEH/ATSDR, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Richard Moore, Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice
Session 3365.0 - Emerging Infections: Perspectives on zoonotic diseases in the near past and on the horizon
Monday, November 05, 2007 - 3:30 PM
Featured presentation: More than cleaning the coops: A review of avian influenza prevention and control practices among backyard poultry farmers in Southeast Asia in 2006-2007 (Abstract #159544)
Session 3370.0 - Alcohol Policy Strategies and Trends
Monday, November 05, 2007: 4:30 PM-5:30 PM – Board 6
Featured poster: Age trends in drinking behaviors among adolescents and young adults by gender and race/ethnicity: National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 1999-2005 (Abstract #162247)
Session 4027.0 - Ethical Issues in Public Health Practice
Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Featured presentation: Neonatal screening programs: Should parents be given a choice of screening options? (Abstract #159139)
Session 4038.0 - Politics and Policy Surrounding HIV Testing
Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Featured presentation: Statutory impediments to implementation of the 2006 CDC recommendations for HIV testing in healthcare settings (Abstract #154935)
Session 4103.0 - Alcohol Use, Sales, and Prevention of Problems at Professional and Intercollegiate Sport Stadiums
Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
- Alcohol Consumption and Control Policies at Intercollegiate Sporting Events
- Blood Alcohol Levels of Attendees at Professional Sporting Events
- Likelihood of Illegal Alcohol Sales at Professional Sporting Events
- Alcohol Control Policies and Practices at Professional Sports Stadiums
Session 4212.0 - Consequences of Global Change on Human Health
Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
- EPA research and assessment activities on climate change and human health
- Health Risks from Climate Variability and Change in the Upper Midwest
- Climate change, heat and health in U.S. cities: Research and action to protect the vulnerable
- Effects of Climate Change on Human Health in a U.S. Population: Current and Future Impacts
- Valley Fever Public Health Decision Support System Based on Climate and Environmental Changes
Session 4248.0 - Medicaid Reform
Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
- US Congress and dental access: Overview and direction
- Successful / Unsuccessful Medicaid Reforms
- Future direction for reform
Session 4264.0 - Infectious Disease Poster Session
Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 4:30 PM-5:30 PM – Board 2
Featured poster: Managing multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (Abstract #163010)
Session 5036.0 - Preparedness and the CDC’s Quarantine and Border Health Services
Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
- CDC's Quarantine Branch: Building partnerships and enhancing workforce development
- Meeting the need for surge capacity at U.S. ports of entry
- Developing Travel Health Alert Notices in plain language for international travelers arriving into the United States: Focus group results
- Public Health Infrastructure at Ports of Entry: Developing Effective Training Materials for U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers
- Assessment of Quarantine-Related Training Needs
Session 5052.0 - Politics, Policy, and Injury Prevention
Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Featured presentation: Motor vehicle occupant injury and hospital expenditures in children aged 3 to 8 years injured in states covered vs. not covered by booster seat legislation (Abstract #148542)
Session 5053.0 - Motor Vehicle-Related Injury
Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
- Comparison of intersection and mid-block left turn collisions in the United States
- Effectiveness of Rear Seat Safety Belt Use
- Factors leading to older drivers' intersection crashes
- Survey of parents of novice teenage drivers: Views on age of licensure, monitoring teens' driving, and vehicle choice
- County variations in seatbelt use: A multilevel modeling study
Session 5060.0 - Reproductive Health: Health Care, Work, and Social Environments
Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Featured presentation: Giving Birth and Returning to work: Maternal health at eleven weeks postpartum (Abstract #153843)
Session 5065.0 - The PTSD Crisis Among Returning Veterans
Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Featured presentation: Responding to the PTSD Crisis Among Returning Vets (Abstract #150965)
Session 5066.0 - Suicide
Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Featured presentation: Measuring the minority gap in mental health service use among suicidal youth: Findings from a national survey (Abstract #153407)
Session 5077.0 - Tech-Based Approaches in Health Promotion
Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
- Tobacco addiction prevention: Using technology to reach teens
- Say Something toolkit: Two survivors empower community health educators by creating an innovative, multimedia toolkit to educate women about cervical cancer prevention
- Using photovoice to examine perceived consequences of sex among female adolescents
- Communicating disease prevention information to the public: Research-based guidelines for creating effective web content
- Innovative Health Education: Using media and technology to get today's youth to eat healthy and be physically active
Session 5071.0 - Issues Related to Cervical Cancer: US
Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
- Cognitive and emotional differences among HPV+ and HPV- men: Results of a pilot study of HPV in men in a natural history study
- Research, policy, and results: The human papillomavirus vaccine and state efforts to reduce cervical cancer
- Frequency of cervical cancer screenings among women (18-64 years) in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area
- Social conservatism, reproductive health practices, and cervical cancer screening
Session 5082.0 - School Safety Planning and Programs
Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Featured presentations:
- Inexpensive and time efficient hand hygiene interventions increase elementary school children's hand hygiene rates (Abstract #145904)
- Developing and implementing a statewide policy for schools on cyberthreats (Abstract #159623)
Session 5095.1 - Public Health and Trade Policy
Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Featured presentation: Advocating for a public health voice in U.S. trade policy: Progress in 2007 (Abstract #165517)
Session 5153.0 - Youth Substance Abuse Trends
Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Featured presentation: Content analysis of references to substance abuse in popular music (Abstract #149650)
Session 5167.0 - Consumer/Retail Food Safety Issues
Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Featured presentation: Educating home food preparers: Where has the message gotten through? An analysis of trends in at-home food handling and consumption practices in the United States (Abstract #149965)
Session 5176.0 - Domestic and Dating Violence
Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Featured presentation: Determinants of physical dating violence victimization among high school adolescents in the United States (Abstract #151016)
Session 5191.0 - Abortion: Incidence and Access in the US
Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Featured presentation: Incidence of medication abortion in the United States (Abstract #160878)
Session 5200.0 - Violence and Bullying in Schools
Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
- Evaluation of a school-based emergency response and management project
- What are the health risks for adolescent bullies and how do they differ for bully-victims?
- School safety: The relationship between academic performance, perception of safety and reality
- School violence: Population-based study of magnitude and risks for educators
- A public health response to school bullying and school shootings