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

4366.0
Innovative evaluation methods, training programs, and interventions engaging the CHW workforce

Tuesday, November 3, 2015: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Poster
Moderator:
Katherine Mitchell, MSW

Board 1
Applying Learned Competencies in Social and Healthcare Organizations through Internships Experience   
Yara William, MHA, Maudia Gentry, Ed.D, MA, BSW, CHWI, Denise Adame, MPH, CPH, CHWI and Nuha Lackan, PhD
Board 2
Perspectives on Community Health Workers among Community Health Organizations and Insurers in Massachusetts   
Victor Cabada, John Auerbach, MBA, Atsushi Matsumoto, Laura Desrochers, Charlotte Gray and Beth E. Molnar, ScD
Board 3
Community Health Workers are the Eyes and Ears of the Physicians   
Kim Artis, AA, Thu Nguyen, MPH,AE-C, Jessica Ramsay, MPH, AE-C, Tala Schwindt, MPH and Helen Margellos-Anast, MPH
Board 4
Evaluation of the impact of a CHW training program: A qualitative analysis of participant feedback   
Renee Cadzow, PhD and Jessica Bauer Walker, BA, CHW
Board 5
Enhancing population immunity to polio in vulnerable populations in India, Angola, Nigeria, and the Horn of Africa through CHW interventions   
Lee Losey, B.A., M.A., M.Phil, MPH
Board 6
HOPE SF Peer Leadership Strategy Evaluation   
Jessica Tokunaga, MPH and Danielle Gordon, MS
Board 7
Use of community health workers to improve medication adherence and appointment adherence in a low income, pediatric, urban Hispanic population   
John Litaker, PhD, MSc, MMedSc, Wesley Durkalski, MBA and Jill Ramírez, M.Ed.
Board 8
Changing the traditional medical model of care to expand the CHW role in developing a cervical health screening program   
Isabel Quinonez, MPH and Sheila Castrillo-Hodgson
Board 9
Incorporating promotoras into Medication Therapy Management (MTM) services delivered in a rural Arizona border community   
Rebecca Jastrzab, PharmD, Melissa Johnson, PharmD, Elizabeth Hall-Lipsy, JD, MPH, Rose Martin, PharmD, Ann Taylor, MPH, MCHES and Terri Warholak, PhD
Board 10
Feasibility of using community health volunteers to provide treatment services to sick children in Bondo, Kenya   
Dyness Kasungami, MBChB, MPH, Mark Kabue, Dr. PH, Makeba Shiroya Wandabwa, MMed, MPH, Savitha Subramanian, Dr. PH, Daniel Otieno, MBChB, MPH and Charles Waka, BSc.

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

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