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Session: Success Stories: Community-Based Public Health Efforts to Inform Politics, Policy, and Public Health (e.g., Social and Environmental Justice)
4117.0: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Success Stories: Community-Based Public Health Efforts to Inform Politics, Policy, and Public Health (e.g., Social and Environmental Justice)
This session will feature five talks that describe the findings, outcomes, and successes of CBPR endeavors.
Learning Objectives: • Provide examples of studies that have determined program success • Describe how successful CBPR endeavors can lead to policy change • Understand how CBPR can successfully address health disparities • How CBPR can be used in research that involves advocacy
Moderator(s):Shawn D. Kimmel, PhD
12:30 PM   Center for Health Equality: A collaborative approach to reducing health disparities
Martha Monroy, MA, Charlene Clements, MPH Candidate, Veronica Marcantonio, MPH Candidate
12:45 PM   Community Involvement Influences Policy Decisions: Victories of a Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership
Judith Anderson, BA, Edith M. Williams, PhD, MS, Janice White, Laurene Tumiel-Berhalter, PhD, Rhonda Lee
1:00 PM   How building social capital creates momentum for policy change: Findings from Oakland, California
Mia Luluquisen, DrPH, MPH, RN, Tammy H. Lee, MPH, Liz Maker, DrPH
1:15 PM   Successes of a community partnership designed to reduce disparities in infant mortality
Daniel J. Kruger, PhD, Tonya M. Turner, Yvonne Lewis
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community-Based Public Health Caucus
Endorsed by:APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Socialist Caucus

The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA