2015 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

4080.0
Faith-based Approaches to Guide Public Health Policies

Tuesday, November 3, 2015: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Poster

Board 1
Million step challenge: Community, church and city working together to promote healthy behaviors   
Gina Curry, BSPH
Board 2
Health Ministers: Destigmatizing bladder health through community education   
Tamara Bavendam, MD, MS, Kimberly Konkel, MSW and Jenna Norton, MPH
  
Board 3
Promoting Mutual HIV Testing in the Black Church and Beyond: Perspectives from Black/African American Seminarians   
Tiffiany Aholou, PhD, MSW and Madeline Sutton, M.D., MPH
Board 4
Understanding the Influence a Stealth Intervention had on Participant Relationships with Food and Religion   
Bobbi Finkelstein, BS, Andrea M. Brace, PhD, CHES and Todd Matthews, PhD
Board 5
"The body is a temple": Using spirituality to motivate African American men to increase healthy behavior   
Emily Cornish, MPH, Sydika McKissic, PhD, Donnatesa Dean, BS and Derek M. Griffith, PhD
Board 6
Can that be done on a Sunday? Changing public health practice to enhance access to health screenings and linkage to care services during Sunday church services to address African American diabetes-heart disease-stroke disparities   
Jannette Berkley-Patton, PhD, Carole Bowe Thompson, BS, Marcie Berman, M.A., Alexandria Booker, MA, Delwyn Catley, PhD, Kathy Goggin, PhD, Marvia Jones, MPH, Therese Petty and Andrea Bradley-Ewing, MPA, MA
Board 7
University Faith-Based Community Partnership to Reduce Health Disparities and Impact Policy   
Carol Agomo, M.P.H., Martha Crowther, Ph.D., MPH, Pamela Foster, MD, MPH and Angelia M. Paschal, PhD
Board 8
Practicing faith and improving community health through refugee church gardens   
Kari Hartwig, DrPH, MA, Meghan Mason, PhD, MPH, Rajani Poudel and Tha Dah Loo
Board 9
Let's Get Healthy Together Putting our Mind, Body and Soul in Motion for a Healthier Lifestyle   
Cynthia Seaborn, DrPH
Board 10
Beyond the Pew: Use of a Culturally Appropriate Congregational Health Needs Assessment to Develop and Implement Obesity and Diabetes Interventions in a Large African American Baptist Church in South Los Angeles   
Dawnesha Beaver, MPH, Jonathan Reid, MPH, Valerie Ruelas, MSW, LCSW, Ellen Iverson, MPH, Megan Lipton-Inga, MA, CCRP, Sherell Eurey, Ali Johnson and Rev. Sonja Dawson, MPA, JD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community
Endorsed by: Black Caucus of Health Workers, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

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