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Sunday, November 04, 2007

2:30 PM-3:30 PM Sun
   2040.0Women's Health Across the Lifespan (Poster)
4:30 PM-5:30 PM Sun
   2043.0Community Activism and Participatory Approaches to Improve AAPI Health (Poster)
   2048.0HIV/AIDS: Focus on Asia and Eastern Europe (Poster)

Monday, November 05, 2007

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Mon
   3002.0HIV and Drug Issues (Oral)
   3003.0Unique Alcohol Issues: Gender, Race, & Ethnicity (Oral)
   3004.0Cancer - Successful Collaborations and Partnerships (Oral)
   3006.0Healthy People 2020: Developing National Objectives for the Next Decade (Oral)
   3013.0Integrating Mental, Physical, and Social Health Among AAPIs (Oral)
   3013.1Access to Care: Implosion of a Public Health Care System (Panel Discussion)
   3017.0What Works? Identifying and Assessing Models, Structures, and Factors that Make or Break Partnerships (Oral)
   3021.0Reducing Health Disparities: Focus on Immigrant Health (Oral)
   3032.1Family Caregiving and Aging (Oral)
   3037.1GIS Mapping, Global Health Surveillance and Public Policy (Roundtable)
   3038.0Emerging Issues and Lessons Learned Regarding HIV Screening (Oral)
   3039.0Innovative HIV Interventions among Vulnerable Populations (Oral)
   3043.0Targeting HIV/AIDS Services to Population Needs (Oral)
   3044.0Community-based Approaches Are Essential in Global Fight to Increase Child Survival (Oral)
   3045.0Motherhood: Strategies for Safety (Oral)
   3047.0AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (Oral)
   3049.0The Role of Politics and Public Policy In Improving Pregnancy Outcomes (Oral)
   3050.0Promoting Maternal and Child Health: Abortion Access (Oral)
   3051.0System Supports For Breastfeeding (Oral)
   3053.0Opportunity & Danger: Health Research in American Prisons (Oral)
   3053.1Health Care & Population Health: Can Payment Reform Help Bridge the Gap? (Oral)
   3063.0Methylmercury Risk: Practice, Research, and Policy Issues (Panel Discussion)
   3065.0Health Disparities (Oral)
   3071.0HPV and Cervical Cancer: Exploring New Opportunities and Sharing What is Known (Oral)
   3072.0Maternal and Child Health Issues (Oral)
10:30 AM-12:00 PM Mon
   3094.0American Indians and Alaska Natives and Health Policy (Roundtable)
   3107.0Policy and Advocacy: Partnerships for Better Healthcare and Wellness (Oral)
   3110.0Disaster and Emergency Medicine: Policy Considerations (Oral)
   3111.0Strategies to Reduce Asthma Disparities (Oral)
   3112.0Reducing Health Disparities: Improving Access to Care (Oral)
   3113.0Public Health Policy and Advocacy (Oral)
   3123.0Women's Issues and Aging: Aetna Award (Oral)
   3127.0International Health Regulations: What Are They and What’s Required of the US Public Health Community? (Oral)
   3128.0Eliminating Health Disparities Using Informatics and Information Technology Applications (Oral)
   3129.0HIV and Reproductive Health Issues (Roundtable)
   3130.0Partnering with CBOs: Program Evaluation and Lessons Learned (Oral)
   3133.0The End of Polio (Oral)
   3134.0Investing in Health: Donors, Poverty, and Equity (Oral)
   3137.0Sickle Cell Disease: Epidemiology and Burden (Oral)
   3157.0Effectiveness of a Peer Group Intervention for Health Workers and Rural Adolescents and Adults in Malawi (Panel Discussion)
   3160.0WE-ACTx in Rwanda: Lessons on HIV and Women's Empowerment (Oral)
   3163.0Social, Cultural, Environmental and Political Contexts of Women's Health (Oral)
12:30 PM-1:30 PM Mon
   3169.0Seeing, Experiencing, and Relaying Assets, Needs, and Program Evaluation (Poster)
   3177.0Cultural Competency for Vulnerable Populations (Poster)
   3181.0Infant and Child Health: Data for Decision-making (Poster)
   3182.0Emerging Issues in Infant Health (Poster)
   3186.0Cancer Prevention and Control Issues for Women (Poster)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Mon
   3189.0Getting to Know You: How Relationship Marketing Strategies Promote Tobacco Use (Oral)
   3192.0Maternal Child Health (Oral)
   3202.0Politics, Policy and Public Health in AAPI Communities (Oral)
   3203.0Public Health Discriminations: A Civil Right's Issue? (Oral)
   3206.0Community Healthcare Delivery: Cultural Competence and Health Literacy (Oral)
   3209.0Civil Rights and Health Care (Oral)
   3211.0Disability Health and Environmental Measurement (Oral)
   3223.0Current HIV Risk Behaviors and Issues among College Students (Oral)
   3224.0Injection Drug Use: Issues Surrounding Needle and Syringe Distribution (Oral)
   3225.0Maternal Mortality: The Shame of the World (Oral)
   3227.0A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Community-Based Primary Health Care in Improving Child Health (Oral)
   3229.0Latinos and Community-based Public Health (Oral)
   3230.0Mental Health in LGBT Communities (Oral)
   3232.0How Should We Rein in Health Care Costs, and When Can We Start? (Oral)
   3233.0Ethnic & Racial Disparities Among Patients With Chronic Disease (Oral)
   3234.0Women's Health & Gender-Based Research & Policy (Oral)
   3242.0War and Public Health (Oral)
   3250.0Maternal-Child Health and Wellness (Oral)
   3251.0Global Health II (Oral)
   3257.0Pandemic Flu and Katrina's Lessons Lost: A Technical, Political, and Historical Critique of the CDC Preparedness Plans (Oral)
   3260.0Breast Cancer: From Awareness to Early Detection to Survivorship (Oral)
2:30 PM-3:30 PM Mon
   3270.0Race, Ethnicity, and Aging (Poster)
   3271.0Social Support and Caregiving (Poster)
   3272.0International Health and Aging (Poster)
   3273.0HIV Research and Practice: An International Focus (Poster)
   3274.0HIV Risk Behaviors among Men: Sexuality, Culture, and Context (Poster)
   3275.0HIV Testing: Informed Consent, Context, Culture, and Individual Experiences (Poster)
   3276.0HIV/AIDS Prevalence, Risk Behaviors, Antiretroviral Therapy Issues, and Treatment/Prevention Options in East and Southern Africa (Poster)
   3277.0Issues Related to Medical Management and Medication Adherence of HIV/AIDS among Underserved Populations (Poster)
   3277.1Contemporary Policy and Intervention Issues in HIV/AIDS (Poster)
   3277.2Critical HIV Care and Prevention Issues (Poster)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Mon
   3303.0Trade Policy Analysis and Health (Oral)
   3304.0Addressing the Health Needs of AAPI Populations (Roundtable)
   3305.0Politics of Vulnerable Populations: Women, Children, and the Poor (Oral)
   3310.0Reducing Disparities: Chronic Disease Prevention and Management (Oral)
   3311.0Gulf Coast Recovery: Spanning Research and Practice (Oral)
   3312.0Reducing Disparities: Issues in Rural Healthcare (Oral)
   3321.0Minority Health and Aging (Oral)
   3322.0National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare (Oral)
   3323.0Katrina: The Lessons Continue II (Oral)
   3324.0Health Disparities: The Effects of Cultural Diversity and Cultural Competency on Access to Care (Oral)
   3325.0Improving Health Disparity thru Cultural Competency (Oral)
   3327.0Research Rights and Policies (Oral)
   3328.0Health Behaviors, Protective Factors, and HIV Intervention Programs (Roundtable)
   3329.0HIV Research and Practice: A Focus on the Prison/Corrections Context (Oral)
   3332.0The Politics between Industry and Public Policy: The Good and the Bad of How Industry Impacts Public Health (Oral)
   3333.0Nutrition and Food Security: Essential Links for Public Health (Oral)
   3334.0Helping Couples Meet Their Needs for Limiting Family Size (Oral)
   3335.0Strengthening Public Health Systems: the Role of NGOs and International Institutions (Oral)
   3336.0Dude, Where is My Retirement? (Oral)
   3337.0Promotoras and Health Advisors in the Latino Community (Oral)
   3338.0Unequal Opportunity: Health Disparities Affecting Gay and Bisexual Men in the United States (Oral)
   3339.0International Perspectives on Policies for Women and Children (Oral)
   3340.0Pregnancy Prevention and Parenting Programs that Meet Teens on Their Turf (Oral)
   3342.0Disparities In Pregnancy Outcomes: The Role of Politics and Public Policy (Oral)
   3343.0Friendly Access: State Based Symposium on Maternal Child Health (Oral)
   3345.0Ethnic & Racial Disparities: Communication, Pediatrics, & Prenatal Care (Oral)
   3347.0Drug Safety & Public Health: Legislative Changes to Reform the FDA (Oral)
   3360.0Social Justice and Public Health Nursing (Oral)
   3362.0Beyond Disparities (Oral)
   3366.0Vietnam and Iraq; Dioxin Health Effects; and The Agent Orange Litigation (Oral)
   3367.0Patient Navigation Research Program: Models to Improve Cancer Care for Women (Oral)
4:30 PM-5:30 PM Mon
   3369.0Alcohol Issues from Around the Globe (Poster)
   3383.0Community-based Initiatives (Poster)
   3384.0Reproductive Health and Work Environment Issues for Latinos (Poster)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Mon
   3401.0Reducing Disparities: Focus on Obesity (Oral)
   3403.0Reducing Disparities: Health Insurance Coverage for Kids (Oral)
   3414.0Law and Policy Collaboratives for Public Health (Oral)
   3415.0Community Partnerships: Lessons Learned (Oral)
   3416.0HIV Medical Care and Outreach: Context and Culture (Oral)
   3419.0International Public Health and the Labor Movement: Labor's Response to Global Health Issues, Trade Initiatives, Globalization and Workers' Health (Oral)
   3420.0Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Health (Oral)
   3421.0Politics and Policy: Childbirth at the Crossroads (Oral)
   3422.0Infant Feeding and Health: First Results from the Infant Feeding Practices Study II (Oral)
   3425.0How Can We Make Oral Health a Much Higher National Priority: Power, Policies and Politics!! (Oral)
   3426.0Terrorism and Public Health (Oral)
   3430.0Global Health (Oral)
   3431.0Vulnerable Populations (Oral)
   3434.0US-Vietnamese Agent Orange Collaboration, Fate of Ranch Hand Health Study, and Review of US-Vietnamese Agent Orange Research from 1968-2007 (Oral)
   3435.0Violence Against Women: An Examination of Causes and Effects (Oral)
8:30 PM-10:00 PM Mon
   3442.0Prevention for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS (Oral)
   3443.0Establishing Equitable Access to Healthcare for 1.3 Billion People: Challenges and Strategies of Health Sector Reforms in China (Oral)
   3444.0HIV/AIDS: Infection Prevention and Quality Assurance Strategies in Southern Africa (Oral)
   3445.0The Impact of Good Policy on Child Health (Oral)

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Tue
   4004.1Wisdom of the Elders (Panel Discussion)
   4010.0Trade Policy, Tobacco and Medicines (Oral)
   4014.0Advancing Community-based Public Health: The Application of Innovative Methods, Strategies, and Tools In CBPR (Roundtable)
   4015.0Utilizing Principles of Community-Based, Participatory Collaboration to Create Culturally Competent Genetics Education Resources for Diverse, Underserved Populations (Oral)
   4016.0The Role of Policy and Policy Research in the Elimination of Cancer Disparities: Models, Examples, and Advocacy (Oral)
   4031.0Integrated Long-Term Care: What Can we Learn from Other Countries? (Oral)
   4032.0Health Care in the New Millennium: Politics, Policy and Public Health (Oral)
   4035.0Public Health Law & Powers During Public Health Emergencies (Oral)
   4036.0Politics and Policy of Implementing HIV Testing (Oral)
   4037.0Prevention Strategies and HIV Risk Sexual Behaviors in Africa (Oral)
   4038.0Politics and Policy Surrounding HIV Testing (Oral)
   4042.0Combating Malaria: What Works? (Oral)
   4043.0Conflict and Public Health: A Framework for Conceptualizing Their Interconnections (Oral)
   4044.0Global Concerns and Actions to Address Pandemic Influenza (Oral)
   4045.0Water, Water, Everywhere: Is it Safe to Drink? (Oral)
   4046.0Substance Use and Substance Use Treatment Issues Among LGBT Individuals (Oral)
   4047.0Infant Mortality Risk Reduction Among Diverse Populations: From Research to Action (Oral)
   4048.0Healthy Child Care America: Building Partnerships to Support the Healthy Development of Young Children (Oral)
   4049.0Improving Children's Health Through Policy and Financing Strategies (Oral)
   4050.0Genetics and Newborns Screening: Practice, Policy and Ethics (Oral)
   4052.0Breastfeeding Programs and Evaluation (Oral)
   4054.0Organization and Financing of Mental Health Care (Oral)
   4064.0Making a Difference in Public Health through Politics (Oral)
   4065.0Environmental Health (Oral)
   4069.0Politics, Policy and Public Health: Student Perspectives (Oral)
   4073.0Examining Influential Factors on Women's Health Policy and Politics (Oral)
12:30 PM-1:30 PM Tue
   4098.0Latinos and health Disparities (Poster)
   4099.0Access to Health Care: Implications for Policy (Poster)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Tue