4127.0 Act Global, Think Local: Domestic applications of international health lessons

Tuesday, October 30, 2012: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
Moderator:
Jirair Ratevosian, MPH

10:30am
Systematic Screening: Applying lessons learned from an international best practice to a rural U.S. setting
Felicia Batts, MPH, Kimberly Aumack-Yee, BA, Miranda Beckman, MPH, Irit Sinai, PhD and Rebecka Lundgren, MPH
     
10:45am
Lessons from Cuba: Tailoring Public Health for Integrated Care
Mary Frazier, RN, MSN, Carmen Byker, PhD, Suzanne Cashman, ScD and Christine DeCourtney, MPA
     
  
11:00am
Implementation of WHO FCTC in Africa: Article 8 – “Protection from Exposure to Tobacco Smoke”
Hadii M. Mamudu, PhD, MPA, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, MD, MPH and Ahmed E. Ogwell Ouma, PhD
     
  
11:15am
Battling bed bugs in South Philly: Lessons from a door-to-door Chagas disease control campaign in Peru
Michael Levy, PhD, Tarub Mabud, Christine Skovira and Alison M. Buttenheim, PhD, MBA
11:30am
Act local AND global: How the US local food movement and international food security advocates can work together to promote public health
Sarah Kalloch
     

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Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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