Thousands of public health experts, researchers and administrators will gather in Boston, Nov. 4-8, to discuss the latest in public health research and practice and debate policy concerns affecting the profession and the health of the nation at the American Public Health Association's 134th Annual Meeting and Exposition.
Themed Public Health and Human Rights, the meeting will explore the right to health and the impact of social inequalities, disparities in access to and delivery of health care and other social determinants in affecting health outcomes. The conference will also include hundreds of sessions on other pressing issues in public health such as pandemic influenza, emergency contraception, HIV/AIDS, disaster preparedness, chronic disease prevention and control and health disparities.
The meeting kicks off with keynote addresses by Paul E. Farmer, M.D, Ph.D., founding director of Partners in Health, and Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., president and chief executive officer of CARE USA, at the Opening General Session at noon on Sunday, Nov. 5, in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
The weeklong conference features more than 900 scientific sessions where attendees can access the most up-to-date public health research reflecting the broad impact this field has in our lives. The full Annual Meeting program and abstracts are searchable at apha/meetings. During the meeting, the Association will also consider adopting a wide range of proposed policies, including encouraging wide-scale pandemic flu planning, ensuring that patients can have contraceptive prescriptions filled at pharmacies, supporting a global framework convention on alcohol control and urging action to reverse the nation's obesity epidemic.
Press information is available at apha/news/annual. Final programs with session locations, along with daily news media updates will be available on site at the APHA Press Office, Room 102A of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Journalists must display a registration badge to gain entry to sessions.
Meeting highlights include:
3097.0 Foundations of Human Rights and Health
Monday, Nov. 6: 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
Featured presentation:
-- Dual loyalty: Human rights and ethical challenges for the health professions; Leslie London, Professor, Leonard Rubenstein, JD, Lauren Baldwin Ragaven
3398.0 Global Climate Change, Clean Energy and Human Rights
Monday, Nov. 6: 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- Science, politics and air quality policy; Samuel Dorevitch, MD, MPH
-- Implications of environmental decline for public health ethics: Toward sustainable public health principles; Andrew Jameton, PhD
-- Climate change, human rights and public health in an era of globalization; Dhananjaya Arekere, PhD, Brian Rivers, PhD, Lee Green, PhD
3115.0 Ensuring Food Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Monday, Nov. 6: 10:30 a.m.- 12 p.m.
Featured presentation:
-- Food Defense: Awareness and Preparedness; Brenda Halbrook
3123.0 Policy Perspectives on Human Rights and Attention to HIV/AIDS Issues
Monday, Nov. 6: 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- Towards a Rights-Based Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women Living with HIV/AIDS; Paul Perchal, MA, Lynn Collins, MD, Rasha Dabash, MA
-- Criminal penalties for conduct that may threaten the public's health: Trends in laws requiring mandatory HIV disclosure to prospective sex partners; C. Galletly, JD, PhD
-- Program and policy tools to address HIV/AIDS, poverty and inequality; Marissa Billowtiz, MA, Marilyn Aguirre-Molina
3142.0 Immigrants' Rights to Health in the U.S.A.
Monday, Nov. 6:10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
Featured presentation:
-- Legal and Health Policy Issues Regarding Immigrants' Health in the United States: Whose Rights and Whose Responsibilities?; Mara K. Youdelman, JD, LLM
3210.0 Outbreak Investigations
Monday, Nov. 6: 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m.
Featured presentation:
-- Managing Iowa's Mumps Epidemic: Epidemiologists' Experiences; Meghan Harris, BS, MPH, Sarah Brend, MPH, Pamila Deichmann, RN, MPH
3234.0 War and Public Health
Monday, Nov. 6: 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m.
Featured presentation:
-- Physician-Soldier: The all-volunteer military and how it changed who serves in our name: Stephen K. Trynosky, JD, MPH
3301.0 Providing Insurance and Removing Barriers to Health Care for the Uninsured
Monday, Nov. 6: 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- Health care reform in Massachusetts: Politics, progress and impact on vulnerable populations; Michael Doonan, PhD
-- Exploring the relationship between state-level minimum wage policies and health-related outcomes: An analysis of 2004 BRFSS data; Kelly P. McCarrier, MPH
3303.0 Experiences and Exercises in Responding to Epidemics and Bioterror Events
Monday, Nov. 6: 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- Pandemic influenza functional exercise - New Hampshire, 2005; Rachel Plotinsky, MD, Elizabeth A. Talbot, MD, Mary Ann Cooney, RN, Jose Montero, MD
-- Avian overture: How pandemic training builds public health and safety partnerships; Mary Clark, JD, MPH, Kerry Dunnell, MSW, Garrett W. Simonsen, MSPS
3310.0 Planning for Pandemic Influenza: Local, State, Tribal and Federal Perspectives
Monday, Nov. 6: 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- Planning for Pandemic Influenza: Federal Perspective; Pascale Wortley, MD, MPH
-- Planning for Pandemic Influenza: State Perspective; Paul Lewis
-- Planning for Pandemic Influenza: Local Perspective; Paul Etkind, DrPH, MPH
-- Planning for Pandemic Influenza: A Tribal Perspective; Jim Roberts
3394.0 Increasing Access to Medicaid and Providing Prescription Assistance to the Uninsured and the Underinsured
Monday, Nov. 6: 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- Prescription assistance program: Helping to alleviate the burden of the high cost of prescription drugs for uninsured and underinsured; Deborah Delay, LCSW, Bruce Cooper, MD, MSPH, Carol Plock, MSW, John F. Newman, MSBA, Ann E. Martin, BA
-- Impact of Medicaid cuts on patients seeking emergency room care; Heidi L. Allen, MSW, Briar Ertz-Berger, MD, Robert A. Lowe, MD, MPH, Katherine J. Riley, EdD
3418.0 Terrorism and Public Health
Monday, Nov. 6: 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- Health effects among New York City residents as a result of 9/11; Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc
-- Torture and medical complicity: Where we stand; Leonard Rubenstein, JD
-- Civil liberties; H. Jack Geiger, MD, MsciHyg
4030.0 Public Health Consequences of Food Insecurity
Tuesday, Nov. 7:8:30 a.m.-10 a.m.
Featured presentation:
-- Linking food insecurity and child development: The development effects of food insecurity in young, low-income Black and Latino children; Madina Agenor, AB, Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, MPH, Ruth Rose-Jacobs, ScD, Deborah A. Frank, MD, Suzette Levenson, MPH, Med
4072.0 Human Rights Strategies to End Violence
Tuesday, Nov. 7: 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- Chronic conflict and the right to health; Alicia Ely Yamin, JD, MPH
-- Human rights strategies to stop genocide and crimes against humanity; Leonard Rubenstein, JD
4074.0 Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Tuesday, Nov. 7: 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- Human rights as a tool to promote a social determinants approach to reproductive health; Catherine Albisa, JD
-- Intersection between HIV/AIDS and sexual and human rights; Alejandro Saavedra, MD, MPH
4199.0 Human Rights Issues in Response to Emergencies
Tuesday, Nov. 7: 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- Assessing the nutritional status of children in Darfur: Challenges and successes; Leisel Talley, MPH
-- Human rights in disasters: An overview, Samir N. Banoob, MD, PhD
4227.0 Public Health Emergencies and Human Rights
Tuesday, Nov. 7: 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- Domestic Spying, Public Health Surveillance, and Human Rights; Wendy K. Mariner, JD, LLM, MPH
-- HIV/AIDS in Africa: Taking Health and Human Rights Seriously; Evelyne Shuster, PhD
4290.0 What's Happening in Our Communities? Tobacco-Related Health Disparities
Tuesday, Nov. 7: 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- Disproportionate cost of smoking for communities of color; Wendy Max, PhD, Hai-Yen Sung, PhD, Lue-Yen Tucker
-- Smoking initiation among adolescent females: Does price sensitivity vary by weight and body image?; Julie H. Carmalt, MS
4324.0 25-Year History of AIDS: The U.S., Israel and South Africa on the Anniversary of the Epidemic
Tuesday, Nov. 7: 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- Health policy and (non)citizenship: Migrant workers and HIV/AIDS in Israel; Nadav Davidovitch, MD, MPH, PhD, Dani Filc, MD, PhD
-- Shattered dreams? Doctors and nurses confronting the AIDS epidemic in South Africa; Gerald Oppenheimer, PhD, MPH
5088.0 Katrina: Through the Lens of Public Health and Human Rights
Wednesday, Nov. 8: 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- Rising from the ashes: Starting over after Hurricane Katrina; Cheryl Bowers-Stephens, MD, MBA
-- Public health system: Overcoming the ravages of Katrina; Lovetta Ann Brown, MD, MPH, CP
-- Environmental policies: From moldy words to meaningful change; Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH
5091.0 Pandemic Influenza: Non-Pharmacologic Interventions
Wednesday, Nov. 8: 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- From SARS and bioterrorism to pandemic flu, new tools and old medicine: Non-pharmaceutical interventions as a way to protect ourselves against contagious disease; David Heyman
-- Ethical issues with pandemic flu; Robert J. Levine, MD
-- Community engagement; Donna L. Richter, EdD, FAAHB
5178.0 Women's Choices in Childbirth - Access to Care
Wednesday, Nov. 8: 2:30 p.m.- 4 p.m.
Featured presentations:
-- Myth of the Maternal Request Cesarean: Exploring Mothers Attitudes Toward Cesarean Birth; Eugene Declercq, PhD
-- White Ribbon Alliance: Women and Infants Service Package (WISP): Planning for Emergencies; Lisa Summers, CNM, DrPH
-- Case Against Elective Primary Cesarean Surgery; Henci Goer, BA
Founded in 1872, the APHA is the oldest, largest and most diverse organization of public health professionals in the world. The association aims to protect all Americans and their communities from preventable, serious health threats and strives to assure community-based health promotion and disease prevention activities and preventive health services are universally accessible in the United States. APHA represents a broad array of health providers, educators, environmentalists, policy-makers and health officials at all levels working both within and outside governmental organizations and educational institutions.
More information is available at apha.
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