2010 OPHA Annual Conference Presentations:

Monday, October 18, 2010

 

Concurrent Sessions: 

Public Health Nursing and Resources

1. They Do Public Health Differently There: Opportunities for Publication and Networking in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hope Leman

2. Public Health Needs Public Health Nursing, Rebecca Austen, Casey Boland, MaiKia Moua, Diana Pope, Anna Stiefvater

3. Impact of Pandemic Influenza H1N1 in Oregon, 2009 - 2010, Ann Thomas and Meredith Vandermeer

Environmental Health and Climate Change

1. Eco-Healthy Homes: What works to empower citizens in improving home environments? Jen Coleman

2. Ready for Change: Preparing the Public Health Sector for Climate Change, Stacy Vynne and Bob Doppelt

3. A health impact assessment of the transportation policies in the Eugene Climate and Energy Action Plan, Heidi Guenin

Maternal and Child Health

1. The New WIC Food Packages: What's the Impact with Participants? Julie Reeder, Jennifer Menge

2. Donor Milk Banks: How the use of donor milk can reduce health care costs and improve health outcomes Dixie Whetsell and June Winfield

3. Healthy Women: The Key to Healthy Families, Helen Bellanca and Michele Stranger-Hunter


Food, Water and Public Health

1. Excessive Sodium Intake: Why it Matters to Public Health, Katrina Hedburg

2. Sustainable Food System Advocacy: A Role for Health Professionals, Emma Sirois and Gretchen Miller

3. Public Drinking Water Sources in Oregon: New Data and Strategic Directions, Sheree Stewart

 


Panel: Proyecto de Salud Para Latinos - Understanding the Sexual and the Reproductive Health Needs of Young Latino Men and Women Residing in Rural Oregon

1. Immigrant Latino Men Residing in Rural Communities in the NW: Exploring sociocultural and physical environments associated with HIV/STI risk, Antonio Torres, Marie Harvey, Liana Winett, Deanne Hudson and Meredith Branch

2. Perceived structural barriers to sexual and reproductive health services: Listening to immigrant Latino men in rural Oregon, Deanne Hudson, Marie Harvey, Antonio Torres and Meredith Branch

3. Factors associated with effective contraceptive use among a sample of Latino men and women residing in rural communities in the Northwest, Jocelyn Warren, Marie Harvey and Marit Bovbjerg

Panel: Building community coalition evaluation capacity for advancing policy and environmental change

Ronda Zakocs, Suzanne Briggs, Noelle Dobson, Christopher Kabel


Panel: You Name It! Engaging Youth to Address Health Literacy

Ann Krier, Leah Haas, Stephanie Vazquez, Nohely Garcia, Zeleny Montes, Miguel Gutierrez, Alfredo Gonzalez, Alfredo Mora, Yobana Ortiz

 

Public Health Keynote Address

Bruce Goldberg, MD 
Director, Oregon Department of Human Services
Director-designee, Oregon Health Authority

 

Institute of Medicine Report: RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing: Public Health Implications

Presenter: Michael Bleich, PhD, Dean of OHSU School of Nursing

 

Health Promotion

1. Using popular education and the community health worker model to build leadership and improve health among women with disabilitiesAmy Anderson, Marcelina Garcia, Cindy Henderson, Ann Kasper, Marjorie McGee, Teresa Rios

2.Empowering health promotion as a means to achieving health equity within a local health department: The Oregon Promotion Change Process at the Multnomah County Health Department, Rujuta Gaonkar, Samantha Kaan, Noelle Wiggins

3. Promoting community resiliency and preparedness through community building, positive framing and participant centered techniques, Brian K. Johnson, Selene Jaramillo

 

Violence Prevention

1. Preventing Sexual Violence: Oregon's Public Health Approach, Ashley Maier and Emilee Coulter-Thompson

2. Postpartum Stressful Life Events and Intimate Partner Violence as Risk Factors for Self Reported Postpartum Depression among American Indian/ Alaska Native Mothers for Two year olds in Oregon, Maria Ness, Kenneth Rosenberg, Alfredo Sandoval, Victoria Warren-Mears, Thomas Weiser

3. Engaging men in the Prevention of Gendered Violence, Cliff Leek

 

Minority Health

1. Hearing Health in NW American Indian Communities, William Hal Martin, William Lambert, Linda Howarth, Yongbing Shi, Susan Griest, and Thomas Becker

2. Regional differences in cancer incidence among American Indian and Alaska Native people in the Pacific NW, Paneen Petersen, Megan Hoopes

3. Lost in Translation: Research Challenges and Lessons Learned from Conducting Research in the Hmong Community, Sheryl Thornburn, Jennifer Kue, Karen Levy Keon, Patela Lo

Environmental Health

1. Quantitative Assessment of Risk to Infants from Environmental Contaminants in Human Milk, David Farrer, Mike Poulsen, Dana Davoli, Marcia Bailey, Clement Welsh, Daphne Moffett, David Fowler, Raymond Yang, Sami Haddad

2. A New Resource for Environmental Public Health: Oregon EPHT's Dynamic Web Page Portal, Tara Chetock, Curtis Cude

3.Public Health and Chemical Exposures: Thoughts and Concerns from Oregonians, Renee Hackenmiller-Paradis, Lisa Arkin, Maye Thompson


Panel: OSU Extension Service's Role in Advancing Public Health Research, Education, and Practices in Oregon,
Marc Braverman, Tom Eversole, Viktor Bovbjerg, Kathy Gunter, Deborah John

 

Tuesday, October 19, 2010


Working to Prevent Chronic Disease: A Role for Many

Carmen Nevarez, MD, MPH,
President, American Public Health Association

 

Healthy Community Design

1. The OHSU, CDC-funded Prevention Research Center, The Center for Healthy Communities, a Resource for the Public Health Community, William Lambert, Thomas Becker, Tosha Zaback, Jessica Kennedy, Nichole Hildebrandt

2. Communities Putting Prevention to Work: An Overview of the CDC's Obesity Prevention Initiative, Alejandro Queral

3. Partnerships for Building Healthy Communities, Roger Irvin, Patty Parsons, Greg Verret

 

Health Promotion and Aging

1. Health Promotion for Older Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Influence of Social Support on Physical Activity Behavior, Alicia Dixon and Miyoung Lee

2. Mastery of Aging Well, Chris LaBelle

3. Impact of Oregon's Living Well with Chronic Conditions Program, Viktor Bovberg, Sarah Kingston, Jennifer Mead, Cara Biddlecom


Maternal and Child Health

1. Implementing Childhood Obesity Prevention Research in a Rural Oregon County Using a Partnership Approach, Nancy Findholt, Vicky Brogoitti, Yvonne Michael, Linda Jerofke

2. Right from the Start: Assessing Child Care Settings in Multnomah County for Obesity Prevention, Rachel Burdon, Kari McFarlan, Helen Bellanca

3. Characteristics of mothers, types of early childhood care and education (ECCE) settings, and breastfeeding duration: Results from a Population Based Survey of Oregon Mothers, Dianna Pickett, Kristen Becker, Kathleen Anger, Kenneth Rosenberg, Roberta Weber

 

Sexual Health

1. An Effective Contraception Policy in a School Based Health Center, Mike McNickle

2. Working to Institutionalize Sexuality Education in Oregon Schools, Kris Gowen, Erin Mowids, Jessica Bogli

3. Risky Sex: Prevalence and Correlates Among People Living with HIV in Oregon, Sean Schafer, Haiou He

 

Panel: Building Capacity for Health Impact Assessment in Oregon 2009 - 2010, Nancy Goff, Sujata Joshi, Jason Feldman, Julie Early-Alberts, Jeanette Montour, Mac Gillespie, Therese Madrigal

 

Public Health Videos: Northwest Health Foundation's "Public Health Matters" Video Contest: From Concept to Commercials, David Rebenal

 

Collaboration between Rural Health and Public Health

Steve Hirsch
Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Coordinator
Office of Rural Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

 

Panel: Measuring and Addressing Health Disparities Based on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation, Linda Drach, Christopher Gray, Angela Tissi

 

Panel: Nutrition and Physical Activity Practices Among Family Child Care Homes in Oregon: Findings from the Healthy Home Child Care Project

1. The Healthy Home Child Care Project: Rationale and Study Design, Stewart Trost

2. Baseline Findings from the Healthy Home Child Care Project, Kelly Rice

3. Overview of the Journey to a Healthy Child Care Home Intervention, Kathy Gunter

 

 

Panel: Toward a Shared, Standards-Based Public Health Data Model, Dina Dickerson

1. Fundamentals of Public Health Informatics, Chia-Hua Yu and Patricia Yao

2. Informatics 102: Public Health Informatics at the State and County Level, Dina Dickerson, Shawn Messick, Steve Modesitt, Patricia Yao and Chia-Hua Yu

3. Issues and developments from the NACCHO Public Health Informatics Working Group, Shawn Messick

4. Meaningful Use and State Level Health Information Exchange in Oregon, Steve Modesitt

 

Panel: Sugar Sweetened Beverages and the Growing Obesity Epidemic, Chris Kabel, Adrianna Voss-Andreae, Marah Hall

 

 

Maternal Mental Health, Nurit Fischler

1. Risk Factors for Persistent Maternal Depressive Symptoms 13 - 24 Months after Birth among Women with Perinatal Depressive Symptoms, Alexis Heisel and Kenneth Rosenberg

2. Prevalence of Maternal Depressive Symptoms During and After Pregnancy in Oregon: Findings from a Population Based Survey, 2006 - 2007, Alexis Heisel and Kenneth Rosenberg

3. Supporting Maternal Mental Health in Oregon: Policy Initiatives and Partnerships, Nurit Fischler and Jillian Romm

 

Policy and Integrative Approaches to Improve the Health of Oregonians, Viktor Bovbjerg

1. Policy, System and Environmental Approaches to Improve the Health of Oregonians, Cathryn Cushing, Kirsten Aird, Dawn Robbins

2. Applying a Health Equity Lens to Policy, Lila Wickham

3. Public Health Prevention and Substance Abuse/ Risk Behavior Prevention: Integration of the Disciplines, Kelly Volkmann and Kelly Locey

 

Panel: Improving Maternity Care Practices to Support Breastfeeding in Oregon Hospitals, Amelia Psmythe, Kenneth Rosenberg, Desiree Nelson, Helen Bellanca

Panel: Keeping Kids Active in Tough Budgetary Times, Ann Krier, Mary Lou Hennrich, Patricia Parsons, Rachel Farkas


Communicable Diseases,
Kelly Volkmann

1. Where Are They Now? A Comprehensive Approach to Achieving a High Treatment Completion rate in a Worksite TB Exposure In Washington County, OR, Jennifer Reuer, Trevor Hostetler, Sharon Hofer, Mandy Anderson, Heidi Behm, Paul Lewis, Mary Ann Ware, Kathleen O'Leary

2. Inmate Demographics and TB Screening in Oregon Jails: Are our Assumptions Correct?  Heidi Behm, Kathryn Carr, Lindsey Lane

3. Tuberculosis Outbreak in the Multnomah County Corrections System, Kimberly Repp, Mary Ann Ware, Laura Nystrom, Amy Sullivan


Immunization, Anna Jimenez

 

1. Oregon's Adult Hepatitis B Vaccination Initiative: A Collaboration Between Public Health and Corrections, Alison Alexander, Judith Leahy, Patrick Vance, Jeanine Whitney

2. Influenza Vaccination Among Two Year Olds in a Population-Based Survey, Kenneth Rosenberg and Alfredo Sandoval

 

 

Social Marketing and Social Networking, Mitch Haas

 

1. Using Social Media to Complement an Outreach Plan, Tara Chetock

2. Developing a Research-Based Social Marketing Campaign to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening, Jennifer Messenger-Heilbronner

3. Developing and Implementing a Web-Based Health Status Report for Benton County, Sandy Goeke, Christian Laugen, Stephen Grady, Julee Syverson


Behavioral Health and Health Promotion, Jana Kay Slater

 

1. NorthStar House: An Evidence-Tested Model of Community-Based Recovery, Susan Matthies, Terri Walker, Elena Wiesenthal

2. Behavioral Health Integration with Primary Health, David Pollack

3. Health Promotion and Community Hospitals, Jana Kay Slater, Keven Ewanchyna, Peter Reed, JoAnn Miller


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