{"id":115449,"date":"2017-11-17T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?p=115449"},"modified":"2020-09-17T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:24:23","slug":"sph-at-apha-2017","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2017\/sph-at-apha-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"SPH at APHA 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar sphnews-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">November 17, 2017<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2017\/11\/thumbnail-student-Kathryn-McConnell.png\" alt=\"thumbnail-student-Kathryn-McConnell\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-115456\" height=\"241\" width=\"400\" \/>In October, School of Public Health faculty, staff, students, and alumni participated in a total of 54 presentations\u00a0at the <a href=\"https:\/\/apha.org\/events-and-meetings\/annual\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo<\/a>.\u00a0The SPH oral and poster presentations covered a wide range of themes, from public health education and ethics to emerging public health topics such as opioid addiction and gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>Student Kathryn McConnell presented her work on food systems and the role of public health social workers (PHSW) in addressing food shortage in time of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood systems are under tremendous pressure as we experience the effects of climate change,\u201d she said during her presentation. Based on the preliminary results of her research, McConnell highlighted the significance of food systems as a social determinant of health and suggested improvements in graduate education that can lead to increased interest in and entry into food systems initiatives by PHSW.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/profile\/bindu-kalesan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bindu Kalesan<\/a>, assistant professor of community health sciences, presented the results of her new research on gun injury during the meeting. The study found that the severity of injury among both assault victims and gun accident victims increased between 1993 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of patients with gun injuries will live compromised lives, with repeated emergency and hospitalization visits, psychological problems, and social challenges,&#8221; Kalesan said. &#8220;Simply put, our study demonstrates not only the additional public health burden due to non-fatal gun injuries, but also the direct burden of continued and multiple challenges to the individual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SPH also hosted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/2017\/11\/08\/scenes-from-apha-alumni-reception\/\">Alumni Reception<\/a> at the CNN Center on November 6. During the event, three alumni received the Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of their outstanding contributions the field of public health on a local, national, or global level.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014<a href=\"mailto:abdallas@bu.edu\">Salma Abdalla<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty, staff, students, and alumni presented on themes ranging from public health education and ethics to opioid addiction and gun violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13554,"featured_media":115456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[2272],"bu-publication":[3516],"sphnews-article-category":[3519,3525,3531],"sphnews-topic":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"profile_tax":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/115449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115449"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/115449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173681,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/115449\/revisions\/173681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115449"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=115449"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-article-category?post=115449"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-topic?post=115449"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=115449"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=115449"},{"taxonomy":"profile_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_tax?post=115449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}