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Big city health department experts to present at APHA
November 2023
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Hear about the latest innovative work from big city health departments at APHA. The list below includes talks and posters where either the presenter or a co-author are staff at a BCHC member department.
Sunday, November 12
- Using redcap for case investigation and contact tracing during the 2022 central Ohio measles outbreak | Columbus Public Health
- CHW leadership in evaluation of CHW programs | Detroit Health Department
- The Art on the Streets (AOTS) World AIDS Day art project: Using visual arts to engage & introduce youth to HIV prevention in school-based settings | Houston Health Department
- Embedding equity and implementing a continuous equity improvement cycle for a large city health department | Prevention Institute discussing case study about Houston Health Department
- Risk factors and maternal predictors of perinatal human immunodeficiency virus transmission in Houston, Texas, 2000-2020 | Houston Health Department
- Historic investment in Indiana’s public health infrastructure: An APHA affiliate’s role in planning, organizing and advocating for increased funding | Marion County Public Health Department
- Assessing COVID-19 vaccination accessibility in Clark County, Nevada | Southern Nevada Health District
- Lessons learned from piloting the use of handheld cameras to increase access to teleretinal diabetic retinopathy screenings in safety-net clinics in Los Angeles | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Cultivating communities of practice for COVID response workforce | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Demographic associations of chronic comorbidities in sickle cell disease: Surveillance based findings from Tennessee | Shelby County Health Department
- From theory to practice: public health strategies to inform policy and improve health | New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Application of systems thinking to investigating and managing legionella risk in cooling towers: Examples from the city and state of New York | New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- The longitudinal association between asthma severity and physical fitness by neighborhood opportunity among New York City public school youth | New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Real-world evidence shows a reduced incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma following sustained virologic response to chronic hepatitis C infection in the era of direct-acting antivirals | New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Making public health a home: A pandemic division’s innovative approach to increasing the public health nursing workforce | Philadelphia Department of Public Health
- Using social determinants of health data to prioritize schools for oral health interventions | San Diego County Public Health
- The partner relay communication network: Building interagency partnerships for improving risk communication with diverse language communities during emergencies | San Diego County Public Health
- Utilizing vaccination data to improve completeness of race/ethnicity information for COVID-19 cases | County of Santa Clara Department of Public Health
- Expanding harm reduction: People who use drugs’ perceptions of drug checking services | Public Health–Seattle & King County
- Your voice matters: Elevating the voices of people with lived experiences of substance use and racial discrimination to develop a media campaign in Pima County, AZ | Pima County Health Department
- District of Columbia’s exposure notification app user engagement and perceptions: Utilization, self-report, beliefs, and behaviors | District of Columbia Department of Health
- Evaluating the spatial equity of certificate of need (CON)-holders in Washington, DC | District of Columbia Department of Health
- COVID-19 vaccine predisposition survey results and use in informing communication messaging among community adults in the District of Columbia | District of Columbia Department of Health
Monday, November 13
- Utilizing health department infrastructure funding to improve COVID-19 and health disparities response through a multi-faceted approach | Boston Public Health Commission
- “A place to stay is the best first step to change:” Short-term outcomes of a new low-threshold transitional housing initiative on individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness and substance use disorder | Boston Public Health Commission
- Potential life lost due to COVID-19 death and its economic impact in Shelby County, Tennessee: A population-level analysis | Shelby County Health Department and Mecklenburg County Health Department
- Chicago department of public health COVID-19 faith response | Chicago Department of Public Health
- Supporting abortion access through local health department initiatives: Lessons learned from Chicago | Chicago Department of Public Health
- A call to action: Addressing barriers in access to mental health services connected to health literacy | Columbus Public Health
- Los Angeles County Department of Public Health leverages national service to meet community health needs | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Assessing socioeconomic challenges in utilizing preventive services among Hispanic adults within the Medicaid, low-income, and uninsured population (MLIU) in El Paso, Texas | City of El Paso Department of Public Health
- Commencing on a journey to advance equity from within in a large local health department | Houston Health Department
- Hospital teaching and non-teaching status and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival outcomes: Houston, Texas | Houston Health Department
- Christmas and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) 10-year study: Houston, TX | Houston Health Department
- Addressing the Health of Black Women | Marion County Public Health Department
- Los Angeles County Department of Public Health leverages national service to meet community health needs | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Testing innovative approaches to engage non-physician team members in hypertension management in clinical settings | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Developing an innovative healthcare delivery model to ensure equitable access for uninsured patients: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Therapeutics Telehealth Program | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Public health councils: Reducing COVID-19 among low-wage workers | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Differences in single violent deaths and multiple violent death incidents, Los Angeles County 2017-2020 | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Economic hardship and health care access and utilization by service planning areas in a large urban county: Taking a more granular look at the data | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Countering the methamphetamine crisis: Preliminary effectiveness of the Meth-Free LA County health marketing campaign | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Expanding access to mpox vaccination among LGBTQIA+ individuals of color in Los Angeles County: The role of the mobile vaccine team | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Potential life lost due to COVID-19 death and its economic impact in Shelby County, Tennessee: A population-level analysis | Shelby County Health Department
- Healing community: An anti-racist approach to strategic planning | City of Milwaukee Health Department
- The role of adverse childhood experiences in post-traumatic stress symptomatology and body mass index among individuals exposed to the world trade center disaster, 2003-2020 | New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Trends in pediatric mental health emergency department and hospitalizations visits and the covid pandemic: Evidence from NYC public schools student population 2016-2021 | New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Developing a user-friendly language access interface to connect residents with limited English proficiency to public health resources | Philadelphia Department of Public Health
- Leveraging an interdisciplinary clinical team for pandemic response: Building capacity of a local public health department’s COVID-19 workforce | Philadelphia Department of Public Health
- Socio-environmental determinants of water contamination effect on children in Pakistan | Philadelphia Department of Public Health
- Photovoice project demonstrating the lived experiences of black women with HIV in Philadelphia | Philadelphia Department of Public Health
- Examining heat-related mortality during July 2022 compared to previous Julys, Maricopa County, Arizona | Maricopa County Department of Public Health
- A community health worker-led, home-based asthma education program focused in high-risk populations | San Antonio Metropolitan Health District
- Epidemiology of unintentional injury deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency department discharges in San Diego County | San Diego County Public Health
- Characteristics associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine refusal in San Diego County, California | San Diego County Public Health
- Leveraging Healthy People 2030 objectives to monitor progress in reducing mortality at the local health jurisdiction level | San Diego County Public Health
- Exposure type, vaccination status, and case conversion among monkeypox (mpox) contacts – lessons learned from Santa Clara County | County of Santa Clara Department of Public Health
- Are there COVID-19 death disparities within a healthy county? | County of Santa Clara Department of Public Health
- Newly diagnosed STIs/HIV coinfections among mpox cases: Implications from the recent mpox outbreak to inform future infectious disease programming | County of Santa Clara Department of Public Health
- Integration of safety and recovery considerations when preparing for reaccreditation and strategic planning | Pima County Health Department
- Educational inspections for new food establishments | Pima County Health Department
- Community health worker integration in local county health departments in urban and rural settings | Pima County Health Department
- COVID-19, home health workforce and the impact on access to care | District of Columbia Department of Health
Tuesday, November 14
- The absence of language access in healthcare systems: An urgent, ethical challenge being addressed by CHWs | Austin Public Health
- Building skills to implement community-based solutions to prevent chronic disease using cost-effectiveness analysis with interdisciplinary partners: Learnings from Boston, MA | Boston Public Health Commission
- At the crossroads of health equity: Gun violence and mental health among black indigenous people of color | Mecklenburg County Health Department
- The collaborative development of a public HIV dashboard for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina: Technical design phase | Mecklenburg County Health Department
- Public health training for northeast Ohio workforce (PHT-NOW): An innovative academic and public health collaboration to expand and sustain our public health practitioners | Cleveland Department of Public Health
- Mental health access simulator: How to address barriers to access for our most vulnerable populations | Columbus Public Health
- Epidemiology of COVID-19 Vaccine Safety and Effectiveness | Houston Health Department
- An emerging hotspot analysis of COVID-19 in Clark County, Nevada, 2020-2023 | Southern Nevada Health District
- Comparing the social vulnerability index for COVID-19: Adopting a novel approach and analyzing spatial associations | Southern Nevada Health District
- Investigating the perceived effectiveness of a grassroots media campaign to promote peace and safety at local parks through an intercept survey | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Establishing a community of practice to support providers of the national diabetes prevention program in Los Angeles County | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Using a clinical coaching model to optimize chronic disease management for federally qualified health center patients | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Emerging national MCH risk profile | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Acceptability of sibling-delivered PrEP promotion intervention for Latinx sexual minority men | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Evaluating barriers to effective and equitable COVID-19 response through the evaluation of essential needs program in Louisville, KY | Louisville Metro Public Health and Wellness Department
- Community health workers at the forefront of eliminating COVID-19 related health disparities in priority New York City neighborhoods | New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Grappling with the construct of gender in disaster-affected populations: A case study for longitudinal data | New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- The effect of covid vaccine on student health and educational outcomes – evidence from NYC public school students | New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Listen up, NYC: Using community feedback to design impactful community engagement programs for COVID response and recovery | New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- A community model to build upon: Utilizing existing COVID-19 response structures to operate brick and mortar public health resource centers | Philadelphia Department of Public Health
- Newborns & neighbors: A community-driven postpartum peer support pilot | Philadelphia Department of Public Health
- Breaking cycles of violence using evidence-based positive parenting education | San Antonio Metropolitan Health District
- Improving and expanding lactation support in San Diego County | San Diego County Public Health
- Adopting collection of subgroup race and ethnicity data in San Diego County public health systems | San Diego County Public Health
- Health status, medical encounters, and deaths in American Indian/Alaska natives in San Diego County, California | San Diego County Public Health
- Impacts of climate change on physical and mental health among San Diego County residents | San Diego County Public Health
- Visualizing health and well-being data by adverse childhood experiences (ACE) score | San Diego County Public Health
- Cumulative and time-stratified sociodemographic and epidemiologic profiles of confirmed and probable cases of mpox investigated by the County of San Diego, 5/20/22-12/31/22 | San Diego County Public Health
- Holistically whole: Public health professionals creating an intersectional experience for our community response using traditional healing technologies in communities of color | San Francisco Department of Public Health
- Lifetime exposure to violence associated with negative social impact of COVID-19 pandemic among adults who drink alcohol in the San Francisco Bay area | San Francisco Department of Public Health
- Shifting gears: Approaches to a successful public health career without a public health degree | Pima County Health Department
- Use of geocoding to identify tribal health data in state COVID-19 databases: A county-tribal public health collaboration | Pima County Health Department
- Introducing telehealth to the district’s school health landscape: Expanding access through a data-driven approach to health equity | District of Columbia Department of Health
- Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics associated with COVID-19 mortality in the District of Columbia | District of Columbia Department of Health
- Building a health systems strengthening framework for developing a comprehensive state health plan | District of Columbia Department of Health
Wednesday, November 15
- Prep uptake and discontinuation among cisgender and transgender women enrolled in a county-funded program for uninsured adults | Mecklenburg County Health Department
- Strategic placement of mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinics using spatial, statistical and community voice data | Houston Health Department
- Network analysis to develop strategies for partnership mobilization and capacity building to address health inequities in the most vulnerable communities of Houston | Houston Health Department
- Project Firstline: Aiding in healthcare professionals’ and students’ ability to provide equitable care through infectious disease prevention training | Houston Health Department
- Inadequate sleep is the primary driver of lower life expectancy in Kansas City | Kansas City Missouri Health Department
- Church and community members’ satisfaction with COVID-19 screening in African American churches | Kansas City Missouri Health Department
- Using faith community engagement to feasibly increase reach and impact of a religiously-tailored COVID-19 testing and linkage to care intervention in African American churches | Kansas City Missouri Health Department
- Impacts of Hispanic ethnicity disaggregation on Covid-19 case surveillance data for American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County, California | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
- Evaluating a messaging campaign to enhance COVID vaccination in underserved communities | Shelby County Health Department
- Racial disparities in mpox infection and vaccine uptake – Shelby County, Tennessee | Shelby County Health Department
- Identifying health priorities of the LGBTQ+ community for community health improvement planning | City of Milwaukee Health Department
- Impact of jail-based methadone or buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder on non-fatal overdose events after release from New York City jails | New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Changes in perceived healthfulness of taxed and untaxed beverages after the implementation of the Philadelphia beverage tax: A natural experiment | Philadelphia Department of Public Health
- Changes in advertising and store stocking practices among small, independent beverage retailers following a sweetened beverage excise tax in Philadelphia: A difference-in-differences study | Philadelphia Department of Public Health
- Health disparities in emergency department use by persons experiencing homelessness in San Diego County | San Diego County Public Health
- Factors associated with decreases in routine childhood vaccines in San Diego County during the COVID-19 pandemic | San Diego County Public Health
- Assessing the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in San Diego County and identifying potential interventions | San Diego County Public Health
- Estimating the burden of long COVID among children and adolescents in San Diego County, California June–September 2022 | San Diego County Public Health
- Tobacco Oral Session 3: Population Assessment of Tobacco Use | San Francisco Department of Public Health
- Reclaiming harm reduction: Applying the principles of harm reduction to tobacco cessation programming to reduce barriers and improve outcome in San Francisco communities | San Francisco Department of Public Health
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