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Online Program

4096.0
Victims, voices and victors: Special populations and health outcomes

Tuesday, November 3, 2015: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Poster
The purpose of this session is to give an overview of the various types and settings in which women face violence. Through presentations, attendees will learn of survivor and provider accounts of violence, prevention of violence, advocacy and policy implications and how media campaigns may be used to combat violence. Lastly, attendees will have a better understanding of the various prevention efforts going forth through community and policy settings.
Session Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: 1. Describe the varying types of violence against women worldwide 2. Discuss solutions to combating violence against women 3. List ways to advocate for change regarding policy and violence against women
Organizer:
Keri Norris, PhD, MPH, MCHES

Board 1
Media campaigns combating violence against women: Lessons and policy implications based on a nationally representative population survey   
Syeda Jesmin, PhD, MPH and Iftekhar Amin, Ph.D.
Board 2
From victim to victor: Engaging in violence prevention programming with urban girls of color   
LeConte Dill, DrPH, MPH, Sharena Soutar-Frith, MPH, Elizabeth Ige, MSW, Alecia Johnson, MPH, Shanna-Kay Townsend, MPH and Britany Thomas, MPH
  
Board 3
Proyecto VOCES: Listening to the voices of Latinas to prevent gender based violence   
Karen A. McDonnell, PhD, Tahilin Karver, MPH, Elizabeth Andrade, DrPH, MPH and Mark C. Edberg, PhD, MA
Board 4
Social policy and intimate partner violence: Perspectives of service providers and women survivors   
Shireen Rajaram, Ph.D., Ana Barrios, B.A., Elisha Novak, M.A., Jossy Rogers, B.A. and Sandra Leal
Board 5
Women's reentry professional's user guide: Walking in the path of the formerly incarcerated woman   
Michelle Hoersch, MS and Lori Nichols, MPH
Board 6
Sexual health empowerment project: Description and preliminary analysis of a jail-based cervical health literacy promotion intervention   
Joi Wickliffe, MPH, Molly Allison, BS, Lisa Silverman, MSW, Jaehoon Lee, PhD, Patricia J. Kelly, PhD, MPH, APRN and Megha Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH
Board 7
Harvesting from within: Implementing a health ambassador model to educate migrant farmworker women about HPV and cervical cancer   
Khaliah Fleming, MPH, CHES, Vani Simmons, Ph.D., Cathy Meade, PhD, Clement K. Gwede, PhD, MPH, RN and Margarita Romo
Board 8
Climbing up the family tree: Reaching women for asthma self-management support via pediatric asthma services   
Mary Janevic, MPH PhD, Genevieve Birkby, MPH, Adriana Diaz-Marinelarena, Elena Kaltsas, MA, Megan Jensen, MPH, Lara Thomas, MPH and Randall Brown, MD
  
Board 9
Motherhood and child custody loss among female street sex workers   
Mina Farahzad, PhD, Laura Cassidy, PhD, David Seal, PhD, Staci Young, PhD, Sheri Johnson, PhD and Kirsten Beyer, PhD, MPH, MS
Board 10
Factors that influence the delivery of cardiovascular disease preventative care for female patients   
Caress Dean, MPH, Keith Elder, PhD, MPH, MPA, Lauren D. Arnold, PhD, MPH, Jing Wang, PhD and Paul Hauptman, MD

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

Organized by: Women's Caucus
Endorsed by: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services, International Health, LGBT Caucus of Public Health Professionals, Population, Reproductive and Sexual Health, Asian & Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health, Black Caucus of Health Workers, Community Health Planning and Policy Development, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

See more of: Women's Caucus