American Public Health Association Meeting

Alumni and friends reception at APHA in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Monday, October 28, 2024 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Join us at APHA!

The American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Exposition is the premier public health educational forum in the United States. This year, the meeting will take place October 27-30, 2024 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

CPH Alumni & Friends Reception

College of Public Health alumni and friends planning to attend the APHA Annual Meeting, or those in the Minneapolis area, are invited to catch up with fellow alumni and faculty, staff, and students at a reception hosted by the college.

Monday, October 28, 2024
6:30 to 8 p.m.
Brit’s Pub
2nd Floor, Clubhouse
1110 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN

The reception venue is located about a 7-minute walk from the Minneapolis Convention Center.

Parking: There is a small parking lot attached to Brit’s Pub with entrance on 11th Street (underneath the British flags). Or park one block away in the 11th Street and Marquette municipal ramp.

Public Health Expo

Find the UI College of Public Health in the exhibit hall — booth 2419 (Map).

CPH Presentations

A list of College of Public Health faculty, staff, and students and other University of Iowa colleagues presenting at APHA:

TimeDayTitlePresenter
1 – 2 p.m. Sun 10/272011.0 – Collectively leveraging public health workforce data: Insights from the public health workforce interests and needs survey (PH WINS) and the governmental public health job task survey (GPH JTS)Erblin Shehu, Laurie Walkner
1 – 2 p.m. Sun 10/272027.0 – Obstetric mistreatment among women living with HIV: A global systematic reviewJoy Edeh, Oluwaseun Badru, Oluwafemi Adeagbo
1 – 2 p.m. Sun 10/272034.0 – Identifying risk factors for substance abuse: Practical insights from the tieh project’s baseline measurementXueying Gao, Brad Richardson
1 – 2 p.m. Sun 10/27Using a civic gathering approach to build state and local capacity to increase civic engagement and improve community health.Anjali Deshpande
1 – 2 p.m. Sun 10/272035.0 – Impact of offering telemental health service on mental health services utilization in federally qualified health centersKhyathi Gadag, Kanika Arora, Whitney Zahnd
2:30 – 4 p.m.Sun 10/272081.0 – The Iowa vital voices project: Designing participatory action research to promote Latino civic engagement, political voice and community healthNicole Novak, Makayla Morales, Julianna Pacheco, Nicholas Salazar 
2:45 – 3 p.m.Sun 10/272070.0 – Ready, set, sort: Leveraging community engagement strategies for big data governanceMatthew Kucmanic
3 – 4 p.m.Sun 10/272114.0 – The perception of HIV self-testing and willingness to use mHealth for HIV prevention among black men who have sex with men in Iowa: A qualitative studyOluwafemi Adeagbo, Oluwaseun Badru
4:30 – 4:45 p.m. Sun 10/272167.0 – Project prevent, engage, empower, respond (PEER): HBCU students leading HIV prevention and outreach effortsEbonee Johnson, Duhita Mahatmya, Amber Hawkins, Sonya Milliman, Ngonyo Mungara
5:15 – 5:30 p.m. Sun 10/272157.0 – Epidemiology of congenital syphilis infections showing a significant increase in the upper midwest – experience of a tertiary care centerAshlesha Kaushik
9:30 – 9:45 a.m. Mon 10/283044.0 – Implementing an adolescent sexual and reproductive health intervention in western Kenya: Develop.m.ent processes and lessons learnedAbigail Lee, William Story
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.Mon 10/283069.0 – Experiencing healthcare in Iowa prisons: Mobilizing formerly incarcerated persons to understand and advocate for improvement in healthcare delivery and outcomesEbonee Johnson, Amber Hawkins, Daria Fisher Page, Johnny Pippins, Makayla Morales, Joshua Gillette, Ryan Mckelvey, Ken Greene, Victor Hall Sr., Thaddeus Wood, Joshua Wages, Helen Neumann, Zachary Palmer, Gregory Lovett, Randall Grandstaff, Christopher Martin, Jason Allbaugh
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.Mon 10/283091.0 – Association between social support and postpartum depression in asia: A meta-analysisKaniz Fatema, Nichole Nidey, William Story
10:30 a.m. – noonMon 10/283122.0 – Aligning cancer plan strategies with partner priorities across the state of Iowa: A community-informed revisionRachel Schramm, Katie Jones
11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Mon 10/283157.0 – Dime la verdad: Promotores de salud use social media to debunk misinformation and increase uptake of COVID-19 and influenza vaccinesMarina Del Rios, Kang Zhao, DeShauna Jones, Patrick Ten Eyck
11:30 – 11:45 a.m.Mon 10/283120.0 – Adapting a youth violence prevention logic model to AAPI youthRima Afifi, Heidi Haines, Amanda Sursely
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Mon 10/283170.0 – Building a community-wide program delivery infrastructure for an older adult disaster preparedness program: Disaster prepwise public health a.m.ericorpsEmily Killian, Nicholas Ostrem, Brigid Smith, Tiffany Wunderlich, Maria Donohoe, Sato Ashida
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Mon 10/283171.0 – Recovery goals and their associations with outcomes in a cohort of adults in early recovery from alcohol use disorderPaul Gilbert, Grant Brown, Gaurab Maharjan
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Mon 10/283181.0 – Food insecurity modifies the association between the gut microbiome and cognitive impairment in adultsZachary Hoggarth, Shoshannah Eggers
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Mon 10/283226.0 – Content features, delivery features, reach, and engagement of vaping content in short-form videos on social media: A young-adult engaged study over two time-pointsShannon Watkins, Cam Marsengill, Klaudia Hernandez, Nazma Noray
3:30 – 3:45 p.m. Mon 10/283273.0 – Encouraging preventive sexual behaviors among adolescents in western Kenya: A two-pronged interventionWilliam Story, Abigail Lee
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Tues 10/294117.0 – Exploring the association between number of disabilities and perinatal depression: Insights from PRAMS data analysisNichole Nidey
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.Tues 10/294166.0 – Incorporating apha policy statements into action to facilitate state-level and grassroot advocacy effortsKayla Rinderknecht
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Tues 10/294186.0 – Teen dating violence prevention programs in schools: Facilitators and barriers to effective implementation of mentors in violence preventionLibby Fry, Jamie Bowles Christophersen, Rima Afifi, Karisa Harland
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Tues 10/294189.1 – Bondage and balm: Midlife women, domestic labor, and health during COVID-19Bridget Lavish
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Tues 10/294198.4 – Engaging communities and preparing members to respond to cardiac arrest: Identifying emergency services agencies’ initiativesKimberly Dukes, Marina Del Rios, Heather Schacht Reisinger, Scott Houghton
10:30 a.m. – noonWed 10/305096.0 – Changing communication dynamics between adolescents and their parents through a sexual and reproductive health intervention in western KenyaAbigail Lee, William Story
12:45 – 1 p.m. Wed 10/305116.0 – Urinary lead concentration and cognitive impairment in community-dwelling adultsShoshannah Eggers

For questions, contact Tara McKee.