The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Epidemiology

NOTE: Sessions listed in italics have been organized by another section, SPIG, or caucus but are endorsed by Epidemiology.

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Monday, November 11, 2002

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Mon
3016.0Mental health matters: Acknowledging the needs of Asian Americans (Oral)
3026.0Environmental Justice: Understanding and Preventing Inequitable Exposures - Implications of what we eat, where we live, and where our children play (Poster)
3028.0Round Table Career Development in Epidemiology (Roundtable)
3029.0Developing Public Health Surveillance Based on Emergency Department Visits (Oral)
3030.0Innovative Epidemiologic Methods for Community-based Investigations (Oral)
3037.2Current Issues in Health and Health Care for Older Adults (Poster)
3050.0Fetal alcohol syndrome prevention (Oral)
3059.0Interventions to Prevent STIs and HIV/AIDS (Poster)
3072.0Tracking Healthy People 2010 (Oral)
10:30 AM-12:00 PM Mon
3077.0Effects of State and Local Programs on Youth Tobacco Use (Oral)
3101.0Environmental and Health Consequences of the World Trade Center Attack (Oral)
3103.0Epidemiology of Non-HIV STDs (Oral)
3103.1Health Disparities: What Have We Learned That Can Be Put to Practice? (Oral)
3110.0International HIV Issues: Africa and Latin America (Oral)
3112.0Occupational Injury (Oral)
3116.0Birth defects and developmental disabilities (Oral)
3117.0Breastfeeding: implementing national policy; programs and research (Oral)
3127.0Risk-taking Behaviors among U.S. Adolescents (Oral)
3134.0Community Health Indicators (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Mon
3139.0Health-Related Concerns of Aging Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Persons (Oral)
3141.0Issues in Health Disparities (Oral)
3157.0Tribal Epidemiology Centers: New Ways to Address the Public Health and Epidemiologic Needs of Native People in the US (Joint-sponsored by the AIANNH Caucus) (Oral)
3158.0Organizations, Sustainable Environments, and Public Health: A Heuristic for Creating a Community-Based Initiative (Panel Discussion)
3159.0Rewards and Challenges of Community-Based Health Studies (Panel Discussion)
3172.0HIV Risk Behaviors and Comorbidities (Poster)
3174.0Reducing HIV Risks: Profligates, Prostitutes, Penitents, Professionals, and Pupils (Poster)
3185.0Adolescent Health Issues (Poster)
3186.0Improving pregnancy outcomes and reducing infant mortality (Poster)
3187.0Child health (Poster)
3192.1Trauma and Mental Health (Oral)
3212.0Measuring Health Disparities (Oral)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Mon
3218.0Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs: How Do You Know You're There? (Oral)
3234.0Environmental and Social Justice: New Urban Health Research Focusing on Inequitable Exposures in Minority Communities (Oral)
3235.0Superbugs, Noxious Gases, Toxic Waste and More: Exploring the New Ecology of Food and Health (Oral)
3237.0Bioterrorism and Epidemiology: Questions, Methods and Outcomes (Oral)
3238.0The Practice of Epidemiology in Public Health Settings (Oral)
3246.0Risk Factors and Risk Behaviors among IDU, MSM, and Rural Residents (Oral)
3248.0Adolescents and Firearms (Oral)
3257.0Implementation of Medicaid, SCHIP and Title V Policies for Children: Current Research (Oral)
3278.0Politics of public health data session: "Measuring & monitoring social inequalities in health in the United States" (Oral)
3279.0Statistical Modeling Applications in Public Health (Oral)
3280.0Health Effects of Agent Orange and Dioxins, Part I (Oral)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Mon
3297.0Tobacco use and HIV risk behaviors among Asian Americans (Poster)
3305.0Spotlight on Regional Environmental Health Issues in the mid-Atlantic Region: Dover Township Childhood Cancer Investigation (Oral)
3306.0Epidemiology Section Awards Session (Oral)
3326.0Oral Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Health Services Research (Oral)
3340.0Statistical Methods in Epidemiology and Environmental Health (Oral)
3341.0Health Effects of Agent Orange and Dioxins, Part II (Oral)

Tuesday, November 12, 2002

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Tue
4012.0Tobacco Control Research (Oral)
4027.0Chemical and Biological Terrorism: Are We Prepared to Protect Public Health? (Oral)
4028.0Antibiotics in U.S. Agriculture: Escalating Resistance Concerns and Policy Developments (Oral)
4030.0Social Networks and Alternative Approaches to TB Contact Investigations (Oral)
4031.0Epidemiology Late Breakers I (Oral)
4032.0Social and Lifestyle Determinants of Health (Oral)
4035.0Cognitive and Emotional Health among Older Adults (Oral)
4038.0Risk Factors for HIV and Other Infections: Drug Use, Ethnicity, Gender, Income Inequality, and KABB (Oral)
4039.0HIV Research and Evaluation (Oral)
4040.0National Violent Death Reporting System: A Progress Report (Oral)
4048.0Emerging Issues in Infant and Perinatal Mortality in the United States (Oral)
4078.0Progressive pedagogy session: ": Distance Education - Promise or Peril?... A Critical Analysis" (Oral)
4079.0Statistical Issues in Biosurveillance (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Tue
4097.0International Issues in Tobacco Control (Oral)
4099.1Maternal and Child Health Issues (Oral)
4119.0Healthy Homes Projects on Asthma and Housing: Implementation, Outcomes, Policy Issues and Advocacy (Oral)
4120.0Environmental Toxics: A Discussion on Environmental Links to Lupus (Oral)
4121.0Challenges In Communicating Epidemiologic Methods and Research Results When Addressing Potential Environmental Exposures: From Assessment to Planned Intervention (Oral)
4122.0Changing Demographics and Implications for Public Health (Oral)
4123.0Public Health Implications of Diabetes, Obesity, Cardiovascular Conditions (Oral)
4124.0Putting the Public Into Immunization Activities (Oral)
4134.0Prevention: Risk Factors in Various Populations (Oral)
4167.0Issues in Health Data Collection (Poster)
4168.0Issues in Health Care Statistics (Poster)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Tue
4172.0HIV Risk among Young Adult Injection Drug Users: Recent Findings from the Second Collaborative Injection Drug Users Study (CIDUS 2) and Similar Studies (Oral)
4177.1Cultural boundaries, not cultural barriers: Contextual strategies for breast and cervical cancer intervention among Asian American and Pacific Islander women (Oral)
4186.0Community-based Research In Children's Environmental Health (Oral)
4188.0Child Health and the Environment (Oral)
4189.0Family History as a Public Health Tool (Oral)
4190.0It's Not Just About the Numbers: Ethics and the Practice of Epidemiology (Oral)
4199.0International HIV Issues: Asia and South Asia (Oral)
4200.0HIV Service Linkage and Delivery, Research and Evaluation (Roundtable)
4213.0Effects of Disasters, Trauma, and War on Children's Mental Health (Oral)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Tue
4239.0Mental Health Issues (Oral)
4243.0Structural and individual correlates of South Asian health (Oral)
4256.0Bioterrorism, Violence, Outbreaks (Poster)
4257.0Epidemiology Poster Session (Poster)
4258.0Health Behaviors and Risk Assessment (Poster)
4278.0Children with special health care needs (Poster)
4279.0MCH Data for Surveillance and Research I (Poster)
4280.0Nutrition issues in maternal and child health (Poster)
4286.0Screening & Surveillance of Occupational Illnesses (Oral)
4290.0Adolescent Reproductive Health in the United States (Poster)
4310.0Statistical Methodology Session (Oral)

Wednesday, November 13, 2002

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Wed
5025.0Children's Environmental Health: Childhood Asthma - Surveillance, Exposure, Innovative Community Outreach and Lessons Learned (Poster)
5026.0Epidemiology Late Breakers Poster Session (Poster)
5027.0Meta-analysis and Methods (Poster)
5030.0Ethnicity and Aging (Oral)
5040.0How do you code "cutting edge"? Forum for discussion of current injury data issues (Roundtable)
5048.0Intimate partner and other family violence (Oral)
5053.0MCH Data for Surveillance and Research II (Poster)
5063.0STI Screening and Prevention (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Wed
5079.0Risky Business: Alcohol, Sex, Cars, and Death (Oral)
5081.0Tobacco Control Research in Targeted Populations (Oral)
5099.0Epidemiology of Health Issues, Determinants of Health, Health Care Delivery Among Native Populations in North America and the Pacific Islands (Oral)
5100.0The Practice of Epidemiology in the Public Health Sector: Methods (Oral)
5101.0Towards Strategies for Prevention of Diabetes (Oral)
5111.0Innovation in Injury Surveillance (Oral)
5112.0Violence Against Women: Current Research (Oral)
5118.0Data systems and data linkage for understanding perinatal and child health (Oral)
5128.0School and Community-based Models for Access and Prevention (Oral)
5130.0Partner Violence and Reproductive Health (Oral)
5140.0Issues in Public Health Statistics (Oral)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Wed
5146.0New Initiatives in Prevention (Oral)
5159.0Working Together to Protect Children from Environmental Threats (Oral)
5160.0New Approaches to Environmental Health Practice (Oral)
5161.0Environmental Toxics: Ambient Air Pollution (Oral)
5161.1Children's Environmental Health Roundtable - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Community-Based Environmental Health (Roundtable)
5162.0Bioterrorism: From Anthrax Vaccine to Mental Health and Ethical Issues (Panel Discussion)
5163.0Special Topics in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology: Data for Programs and Policy Making (Oral)
5164.0Outbreaks, Surveillance and Patterns (Oral)
5173.0Prevention with and Screening for Positives (Oral)
5176.0Violence Against Women: Issues in Intervention (Oral)
5190.0Oral Cancer, Tobacco, and Special Populations (Oral)

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA