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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
 APHA 2005
 
Session: Health Disparities Elimination: State, Local, Community and Academic Responses
5032.0: Wednesday, December 14, 2005: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Roundtable
Health Disparities Elimination: State, Local, Community and Academic Responses
This session provides an opportunity to discuss important health issues facing minority populations. The discussions will be held in round tables. Presenters will share tools and materials with participants and will engage in a critical dialogue around various topics of interest. questions.
Learning Objectives: 1) Learn innovative strategies for addressing disparities in diverse populations; 2) Explore new and innovative thinking on determinants of health; learn new and best practices for research engagement in African-American communities; 3) Explore prevention efforts for addressing HIV/AIDS and other important health problems in African-American communities.
Moderator(s):Justin Odulana
Pamela Denzmore, MPH
Table 1Industrial Sprawl: Living and Dying in Louisiana's Cancer Alley
Beverly H. Wright, Ph D, M A
Table 2Strange Bedfellows – Not! Instead a collaborative of concerned citizens working to help eliminate health disparities
Adenike Bitto, MD, DrPH, MPH, CHES, Jacquelyn A. Hakim, MS, MPH, Robert Moses, Patricia Graham, PhD, Hamilton Banks, Vivian Morris, MS, CPS, Eugenia Craig, Robert Hillman, Solibe and Uchenna Ufondu, MD, MD, Wayne Bolt, Jeffrey D. Ewen, MPH RPH, Helen Willis, RN, President
Table 3"Black Monogamy: Using positive psychology to explore radical possibilities for African-American heterosexual HIV prevention."
Debra Ann Brodie, PhD, Larry M. Gant, CSW, PhD
Table 4Assessing the immediate and longer term impact of an Undoing Racism workshop on individuals and their organizations
Linda D. Mack Burch, MPH, Geraldine Oliva, MD, MPH, Virginia Smyly, MPH, CHES, Jennifer Rienks, PhD(c), Sandra Johnson, BS, Judith A. Belfiori, MA, MPH, Kevan Leonard Carter
Table 5Outcomes of a demonstration project designed to provide community reintegration services to HIV positive inmates in Massachusetts
Thomas A. Barker, MPH
Table 6HIV/AIDS preventive appraisal of African-American men in urban and rural Mississippi: A perspective for ethnic-specific community-based interventions
P. Bassey Williams, PhD, CHES, Anthony M. Sallar, PhD, MBA, MPH, Ademola M. Omishakin, MPH, PhD , MBA, Michael Gibson, BS, MPH
Table 7Engaging young African American men in HIV/AIDS prevention: New minority male health consortium
Rena G. Boss-Victoria, DrPH, MSN, RN, CNS, Olugbemiga Ekundayo, MD, MPH, DrPH(C)
Table 8Using survey research in a community partnership setting as a assessment tool of African American males' health beliefs and knowledge about HIV/AIDS and other health disparities
Olugbemiga Ekundayo, MD, MPH, DrPH(C), Rena G. Boss-Victoria, DrPH, MSN, RN, CNS
Table 9Assessing Risk for Lead Poisoning in Mississippi: Utilizing the Geographic Information System Technology
Marinelle Payton, MD, PhD, MS, MPH, Vijay Kondur, BS, MS
Table 10HBCU students as conduits for combating racial disparities in health
Debra Murphy, PhD, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Black Caucus of Health Workers
Endorsed by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA