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Everything You Need to Know about SPH at APHA Nov. 6-9

Celebrating 150 years, the 2022 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo will take place in Boston Nov. 6-9. Here is a rundown of SPH’s participation in the conference, including oral and poster presentations, an exhibit hall booth, and an Alumni & Friends reception.

Over 10,000 public health individuals are registered to attend the 150th Annual American Public Health Association Conference in Boston, November 6-9, 2022. Boston University School of Public Health is delighted to celebrate and welcome community members to our hometown. Highlights include:

• 60 abstracts and presentations from SPH faculty, students, staff, and alumni (a complete schedule is below). Featured APHA Sessions include Craig Andrade, associate dean for practice and director of the Activist Lab, and Dean Sandro Galea.
• 50+ current SPH students will be in attendance courtesy of additional funding support.
• An engaging exhibit hall booth celebrating what public health means to the SPH community.
• A reception for Alumni and Friends at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Monday, November 7.

Visit the BUSPH Booth

APHA Place @ APHA 2022 Exhibit Hours

Sun., Nov. 6, 12:30pm – 6:00pm          
Mon., Nov. 7, 10am – 4pm
Tue., Nov. 8, 10am – 4pm

Located next to the Emerging APHA Scholars Theater at booth #1431, the SPH booth will have special giveaways for all attendees and alums (including alumni badge decals).

What does public health mean to you? The BUSPH community chose 20 words that best answer this question to display proudly at APHA.

Select your pins and stickers with your favorite answers when you stop by our booth, and pick up one of the first copies of the 2022 issue of SPH This Year.

If you are a student attending APHA, please remember to stop by the booth at 12:00pm on Monday, Nov. 7 for a group photo.

Alumni and Friends Reception

Monday, Nov. 7

6:00-8:00pm

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115

Space is limited, please email sphevent@bu.edu for more information.

SPH Faculty, Students, Staff, Alumni Abstracts and Presentations

Sunday, Nov. 6

1:00-2:30pm

Mommy wine culture: alcohol use and disorder trends in active-duty servicewomen with and without children
Poster session: Alcohol Epidemiology and Priority Populations
SPH co-author: Rachel Sayko Adams, research associate professor of health, law, policy, and management (SPH’08)

Prevalence of harms to others from drinking alcohol among US college students
Poster session: Making change happen: Alcohol interventions and policies
Presenter: David Jernigan, professor of health, law, policy and management; assistant dean, public health practice
SPH co-authors: Patrick J. D. Tiongson (SPH’20); Sarah Lipson, assistant professor; Ziming Xuan, professor

Identities, drinking behaviors, and alcohol-related cancer awareness among Black and White adults: A qualitative exploration
Poster session: Student Outstanding Work Award Candidate
Presenter: Jih-Cheng (Jack) Yeh (SPH’27)
SPH co-authors: David Jernigan, professor of health, law, policy and management; assistant dean, public health practice

APHA Press Book Signing Party
Celebrating recent APHA press publications, including “The Picture of Health” by
Michael Stein, chair and professor, health, law, policy, and management and Sandro Galea, SPH dean and Robert A. Knox Professor

2:30-4:00pm

The Activist Lab: Advocacy in the Academy
Featured session: Advocacy, Activism, and Public Health: Making Good Trouble Now
Presenter: Craig Andrade, associate dean for practice; director of the Activist Lab; associate professor of community health sciences (SPH’06,’11)

Disparities in Neurocognitive and Psychiatric Health among Arab Americans in the United States
Poster session: Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
SPH co-authors: Rayah Touma Sawaya (SPH ’23)

Shared decision making among youth of color, guardians, and care team during psychiatric emergency services visit
Oral session: Mental Health in Vulnerable Youth
SPH co-authors: Carolina-Nicole Herrera (SPH ’23); Christina Freibott (SPH’27); Jack Clark, professor of health, law, policy and management

4:00-6:00pm

How “Unexpected” is Severe Maternal Morbidity? The Pattern of Prenatal and Preconception Hospitalizations Prior to the Experience of Severe Morbidity
Poster session: Perinatal & Women’s Health
Presenter: Eugene Declercq, professor of community health sciences
SPH co-authors: Howard Cabral, professor of community health sciences (SPH’86, GRS’99)

Machine learning algorithms for generating graphical causal models: From causal inference to causal discovery
Oral session: Epidemiology Methods II
Presenter: Rajesh Gururaghavendran (SPH ’23)
SPH co-author: Eleanor J Murray, assistant professor of epidemiology

Monday, Nov. 7

10:30-12:00pm

A Review of Digital Health Technologies applied in Industry-led Access Programs in Low-and Middle-Income Countries
Poster session: Disparities and Inequities in Global Health Posters
Presenter: Carlotta Cellini (SPH ’20)
SPH co-authors: Anne Christine Stender Heerdegen; Veronika J Wirtz, professor of global health; Peter C Rockers, associate professor of global health

(De)Criminalization and Health Equity
Theme-related session
Moderator: Nicole Huberfeld, Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law

Charting the Future of the Commercial Determinants of Health Framework
Panel session: Renegotiating Contextual Health Promotion and Well Being
SPH co-author: Salma Abdalla, research fellow (SPH’16,’22)

1:00-2:30pm

Non motor symptoms of Parkinson Disease in 1991 Gulf War veterans
Poster session: Veterans Caucus
Presenter: Charlotte JeanMichel (MED ’23)
SPH co-author: Kimberly Sullivan, research associate professor of environmental health (MED’99)

Mood Functioning in Gulf War Veterans: Findings from the Boston, Biorepository, Recruitment, and Integrative Network for GWI (BBRAIN)
Poster session: Risk Factors for Veteran’s mental health and suicidal ideation
Presenter: Dylan Keating (SPH ’23)
SPH co-authors: Emily Quinn; Rabindra Kadel (SPH’19); Kimberly Sullivan, PhD, research associate professor of environmental health (MED’99)

Assessing the links between health services utilization and neighborhood-level availability of Federally Qualified Health Centers
Poster session: Health Economics and Health Services Research
Presenter: Eun Kyung Lee
SPH co-author: Megan Cole Brahim, assistant professor of health, law, policy, and management

Trends in suicide rates by rank and component among US Army Soldiers deployed between Fiscal Years 2008 and 2014
Poster session: Veterans Caucus Poster Session 2
Presenter: Rachel Sayko Adams, research associate professor of health, law, policy, and management (SPH’08)
SPH co-author: Jaimie Gradus, associate professor of epidemiology (SPH’04,’09)

The Upcoming Challenge for Trigger Law States
Poster session: Late Breaker Poster Session 2
Presenter: Ruby Barnard-Mayers (SPH’20, ’27)
SPH co-author: Eugene Declercq, professor of community health sciences

2:30-4:00pm

Academic public health approaches to gun violence prevention
Oral session: Addressing Urgent Issues in Academic Public Health: Climate Change, Gun Violence, and Anti-racism
Presenter: Sandro Galea, SPH dean and Robert A. Knox Professor

Using Alternative Educational Delivery for Provider Practice Change: Evaluation of a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Education Podcast
Oral roundtable: Innovative Research/Practice Approaches in Public Health Communication (organized by HCWG)
Presenter: Jacey Greece, clinical associate professor of community health sciences (SPH’04, ’11)
SPH co-authors: Candice Bangham (SPH’19), Micaela Resh (SPH’22)

Daily Variation in Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Levels and Emergency Department Visits Among Children, 2004-2015: A Case-Crossover Study among 43 US Children’s Hospitals
Oral session: Air Quality Oral
Presenter: Amruta Nori-Sarma, assistant professor of environmental health
SPH co-authors: Yuantong Sun; Keith Spangler; Jennifer Stowell; Gregory Wellenius, professor of environmental health, director of the Center for Climate and Health

Asthenopia among university students: The eye of the digital generation
Roundtable session: Health Education Roundtable
SPH co-author: Rayah Touma Sawaya (SPH’23)

A novel patient-centered approach to contraceptive counseling: a pilot qualitative study
Roundtable session: Contraception Roundtable 1
SPH co-author: Natasha Lerner (SPH’23)

Improving access to contraceptive care for transmasculine patients: lessons learned from implementing new agency-wide workflows
Oral session: Contraception 1
SPH co-author: Liz Henry (SPH’15)

3:00-4:00pm

ELSI considerations and challenges in the online return of cancer genetic research results to U.S. Black women
Poster session: Genomics Forum Poster Session
Presenter: Catharine Wang, associate professor of community health sciences
SPH co-authors: Julie R. Palmer, professor of epidemiology (SPH’85, SON’80); Howard Cabral, professor of community health sciences (SPH’86, GRS’99); Michelle Trevino-Talbot

Addressing disparities in health services utilization by health insurance coverage at Federally Qualified Health Centers
Poster session: Health Equity
Presenter: Eun Kyung Lee
SPH co-authors: Megan Cole Brahim, assistant professor of health, law, policy, and management

Assessing the Health Index Landscape: A review and quantitative comparison of existing index tools  
Poster session: Applied Public Health Statistics
Presenter: Nina Cesare
SPH co-authors: Kevin Lane, assistant professor of environmental health (SPH’14); Keith Spangler; Pengsheng Ni, research associate professor of health, law, policy and management; Michael LaValley, professor of biostatistics; Michael Winter (CAS’87, SPH’93); Paige Beliveau; Kimberly Dukes, research associate professor of biostatistics and executive director, Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (BEDAC) (Wheelock’86, GRS’89,’02)

Incidence and Prevalence of Traumatic Brain Injury in the Framingham Heart Study’s Original Cohort
Poster session: Social and Environmental Determinants in Aging Health
Presenter: Shruti Durape (SPH’20)
SPH co-authors: Prajakta Joshi (SPH’17, SDM’20,’22); Alvin Ang (SPH’16); Yorghos Tripodis, professor of biostatistics; Rhoda Au, professor of epidemiology

4:30-6:00pm

Health Determinants, Data and Decision-making
APHA Featured Session
Moderator: Sandro Galea, SPH dean and Robert A. Knox Professor
SPH co-author: Salma Abdalla, research fellow (SPH’16,’22)

Supporting Local Health in Times of Pandemic: Lessons Learned from the Academic Public Health Volunteer Corps Response to COVID-19 in Massachusetts
Oral session: Lessons Learned As We Emerge from the Pandemic: Part 2
Presenter: Hiba Abousleiman (SPH’21)
SPH co-authors: Patricia Elliott, clinical associate professor of community health sciences (SPH’06,’13); Sarah Fielman (SPH’23); Alyson Codner (SPH’22); Allyson Cogan (SPH’22); Zoë Wangstrom (SPH’22); Jacey Greece, clinical associate professor of community health sciences (SPH’04, ’11)

Online environments and women’s health: A unique approach to assessing how health inequities are recognized, addressed and marginalized populations targeted in women’s health websites
*Winner, Highest Scoring Abstracts, APHA Women’s Caucus
Oral session: Technology and Research and the Implications on Health Outcomes for Women and Girls
SPH co-authors: Susan Garfield (SPH ’11); Allegra Gordon, assistant professor of community health sciences; Kim Nelson, associate professor of community health sciences; Vanessa Boland Edouard (SPH’08, Questromᴳ’14); Jenn Conti (SPH’18)

Protecting Patient Dignity: A Human Rights Intervention to End Universal Shackling
Oral session: Addressing Human Rights Violations and Identifying Health Inequities
SPH co-author: Sondra S. Crosby, associate professor of health law, ethics, and human rights

Tuesday, Nov. 8

8:30-10:00am

How COVID-19 affected the future of public health
Featured Session: COVID-19 The Great Pandemic: What’s Next
Presenter: Susan Garfield (SPH ’11)

Perceptions and attitudes about long-acting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among transgender and gender-diverse young adults in the US
Oral session: PrEP Uptake Among Marginalized Populations
Presenter: Samantha Haiken (SPH’22)
SPH co-authors: Kim Nelson, associate professor of community health sciences; Allyson Cogan (SPH’22); Allegra Gordon, assistant professor of community health sciences;

Sexual and gender diversity associated with elevated risk of frequent mental distress during the early COVID-19 period in Massachusetts
Oral session: Mental Health Among LGBTQ+ People
Presenter: Jessica Leibler, assistant professor of environmental health
SPH co-authors: Koen Tieskens; Prasad Patil, assistant professor of biostatistics; Xiaojing Peng (SPH’22, ENGᴳ’23)

10:30-12:00pm

Public sector partnering with retail pharmacies to supply essential medicines in LMICs: a scoping review
Poster session: Health Administration Section Poster Session 3
Presenter: Carlotta Cellini (SPH’20)
SPH co-authors: Koen Tieskens; Prasad Patil, assistant professor of biostatistics; Xiaojing Peng (SPH’22, ENGᴳ’23)

Associations between food access, neighborhood income, and self-reported nutrient intake among a cohort of pregnancy planners.
Poster session: Nutrition and Nutrition Behaviors Across the Lifespan
Presenter: Martha R. Koenig (SPH’23)
SPH co-authors: Mary Willis, assistant professor of epidemiology; Sharonda M. Lovett (SPH ’28); Julia C. Bond (SPH’23); Monica L. Wang, associate professor of community health sciences; Elizabeth E. Hatch, professor of epidemiology; Lauren A. Wise, professor of epidemiology; Amelia K. Wesselink, research assistant professor of epidemiology (SPH’18)

Reimagining public health literacy in outbreak settings
*Winner, Public Health Education and Health Promotion Student Award
Oral session: PHEP Student Awards Oral Session
Presenter: Maggie Burkhardt (SPH’23)
SPH co-authors: Eleanor J. Murray, assistant professor of epidemiology; Jennifer Weuve, associate professor of epidemiology

A Systematic Approach to Creating a Causal Directed Acyclic Graph: an Osteoarthritis Case Study
Poster session: Student Poster Session II
Presenter: Haadiya Cheema (CAS’22, SAR’22)
SPH co-author: Eleanor J Murray, assistant professor of epidemiology

Community garden soil sampling for metals to inform a renovation and expansion project
Poster session: CHPPD POSTER SESSION 3 – STUDENT
Presenter: Samantha Hall (SPH ’21, 28)
SPH co-authors: Jocelyn Fimbres (SPH’28); Maria Pilar Botana Martinez (SPH’27); Wendy J. Heiger-Bernays, clinical professor of environmental health

Investigation of physical and emotional hazards for BTU members to build capacity for H&S organizing
Oral session: Occupational Health Internship Program (OHIP
Presenter: Diana Vasquez (SPH’23)

Kitty’s Contributions to Science: Documenting Normal Birth in America
Oral session: Kitty Ernst Special Session
Presenter: Eugene Declercq, professor of community health sciences

1:00-2:30pm

Developing and implementing a public health co-research training program for Special Olympics athletes
Poster session: Health Access and Provider Education Poster Session 2
Presenter: Anna-Mariya Kirova (SSW’23, SPH’23)
SPH co-authors: Graham Bartsch (SPH’22); Eric Rubenstein, assistant professor of epidemiology (MED’11)

A Heat Vulnerability Index for Salt Lake City, Utah
Poster session: Student Assembly Poster Session
Presenter: Megan Jones (SPH’23)

Educating Pediatric Care Clinicians on Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Community-Based, Interprofessional Training Program
Poster session: Health Access and Provider Education Poster Session 1
SPH co-author: Jacey Greece, clinical associate professor of community health sciences (SPH’04, ’11)

2:30-4:00pm

Online Environments and Women’s Health: An industry-academic partnership to identify opportunities to mitigate health inequities for women across the life-course
Oral session: Recruit and Retain a Diverse and Culturally Responsive Workforce: Part 1
Presenter: Vanessa Boland Edouard (SPH’08, Questromᴳ’14)
SPH co-authors: Susan Garfield (SPH ’11); Craig Ross (SPH ’14); Michael McClean, associate dean for research and faculty advancement; Allegra Gordon, assistant professor of community health sciences; Jenn Conti (SPH’18); Kim Nelson, associate professor of community health sciences

Impacts of the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave on all-cause and heat-related emergency department visits in Washington and Oregon
Oral session: Climate Change
Presenter: Chad Milando
Author: Amruta Nori-Sarma, assistant professor of environmental health
SPH co-author: Gregory Wellenius, professor of environmental health, director of the Center for Climate and Health

3:00-4:00pm

The Learning Agenda 2.0: A framework and process to facilitate systems change
Poster session: APLPH Caucus Poster Session III: Recruit and Retain a Diverse and Culturally Responsive Workforce
SPH co-author: Karla Todd Barrett

Practice-Based Teaching during the Pandemic: An Evaluation of In-Person, Virtual, and Hybrid Delivery
Poster session: Climate Change
Presenter: Chad Milando
Author: Amruta Nori-Sarma, assistant professor of environmental health
SPH co-author: Gregory Wellenius, professor of environmental health, director of the Center for Climate and Health

Practice-Based Teaching during the Pandemic: An Evaluation of In-Person, Virtual, and Hybrid Delivery
Poster session: APLPH Caucus Poster Session II: Lessons Learned As We Emerge from the Pandemic
Presenter: Alyson Codner (SPH’22)
SPH co-authors: Candice Bangham (SPH ’19); Stacey Cunningham (COM’17, SPH’22); James Wolff, associate professor of global health; Jacey Greece, clinical associate professor of community health sciences (SPH’04, ’11)

Examining Healthcare Champions Who Have Successfully Promoted Adoption of New Ideas Among Their Peers
Poster session: Innovative approaches to community design programming
Presenter: Emily George (SPH’10,’21)
SPH co-authors: Lora Sabin, associate professor of Global Health; James Wolff, associate professor of global health; Patricia Elliott, clinical associate professor of community health sciences (SPH’06,’13)

4:30-6:00pm

Framing the Future: Education for Public Health 2030, an ASPPH Initiative
Oral session: Recruit and Retain a Diverse and Culturally Responsive Workforce: Part 2
SPH co-author: Lisa Sullivan, associate dean for education (GRS’86,’92)

Applied longitudinal trajectory methods for imputation of rare behavioral outcomes: a case study of youth handgun carrying
Oral session: Applications Using Longitudinal Health Data
Presenter: Emma Gause
SPH co-authors: Candice Bangham (SPH ’19); Stacey Cunnington (COM’17, SPH’22); James Wolff, associate professor of global health; Jacey Greece, clinical associate professor of community health sciences (SPH’04, ’11)

Wednesday, Nov. 9

8:00-9:00am

Wellness Activity: Zentangle
Presenter: Kristen Sheridan

8:30-10:00am

Healthcare utilization and readiness outcomes among female soldiers with post-deployment at-risk drinking, by multimorbidity class
Oral session: Alcohol Oral #2 – Improving alcohol-related outcomes by focusing on priority and often overlooked populations: What do the data say?
Presenter: Rachel Sayko Adams, research associate professor of health, law, policy, and management (SPH’08)

Using Formative Evaluation of a Community-Based Opioid Overdose Prevention Program to Inform Strategic Communication and Advance Multi-Sector Partnerships
Oral session: Strategies to Combat the Opioid Crisis
Presenter: Sarah Fielman (SPH’23)
SPH co-authors: Candice Bangham (SPH’19); Stacey Cunnington (COM’17, SPH’22); Jacey Greece, clinical associate professor of community health sciences (SPH’04, ’11)

A Novel Toolkit for Building Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs: Levering Qualitative Research Methods to Improve Quantitative Research
Oral session: Epidemiology Methods Oral Section
Presenter: Megan Lang (SPH’23)
SPH co-author: Eleanor J Murray, assistant professor of epidemiology

Bridging the gap between theory and application: causal inference using the difference-in-differences method for count outcomes
Oral session: Epidemiology Methods Oral Section
Presenter: Sarah Rothbard (GRS’23)
SPH co-author: Eleanor J. Murray, assistant professor of epidemiology