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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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3264.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
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| The APHA Science Board session highlights important issues in setting a public health research agenda with four distinguished speakers from government, academia and the community. The first addresses the recent experience of the lead public health agency in the US in developing its research agenda to address issues of national and global relevance with a variety of public and private partners. The second assesses how Sweden prioritizes and evaluates their national public health research agenda to improve national health status. The third addresses protection of public health research participants of ethnically diverse populations in the push to reduce disparities in health status. The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment has become a powerful metaphor of racism and misconduct in public health research, as well as historical government abuse of research participants. Efforts to improve the health status of African Americans come up against the legacy of the syphilis study when African Americans are reluctant to participate in research trials, or, in the case of postal workers in Washington DC, are wary of anthrax vaccinations. Finally, the fourth issue is what a community has done to directly engage in public health research. In Diamond, Louisiana community residents lived in fear of toxic spills, explosions and routine pollution from nearby petrochemical plants. With a tireless and insistent community leader, residents of Diamond and other African American communities along "Cancer Alley" learned to use computers to do their own research: tracking pollution, mapping with geographic information system, and performing health assessments they needed to document patterns in community health problems with impressive results. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1) To learn what the United States could do to prioritize and evaluate the national public health research agenda to improve national health status based on the experience of Sweden 2) To understand what needs to be done to identify and protect the individuals who become participants in public heatlh research 3) To learn how to mobilize the role that communities and their leaders can play when politics prevents the government from doing needed public health research. | |||
| Monica Lathan | |||
| Carol C. Korenbrot, PhD | |||
Supporting and Expanding Public Health Research: A CDC Perspective ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Robin Wagner, PhD, MS | |||
| Protecting the Public When the Public are Research Participants Bill Jenkins, PhD, MPH | |||
| When the Community takes Public Health Research into its Own Hands Margie Eugene Richard | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | APHA-Science Board | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
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