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

5022.3
Cutting Edge Research in Communication, Media and Public Health (organizrd by HCWG)

Wednesday, November 4, 2015: 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Poster
Moderator:
Alicia Best, PhD, MPH, CHES

Board 1
Use of Facebook by Local Health Departments: Activity and Focus Areas   
Rakhi Trivedi, M.P.H., B.D.S. and Gulzar Shah, PhD, MStat, MS
Board 2
Overcoming Social Media Myths & Fears: Adapting New Media Technology toward Integrated Health Services   
Mehroz Baig, MS, MIA and Frank Strona, MPH, PhD(c)
Board 3
Breaking up with tobacco: An innovative approach to reaching LGBT populations   
Linda Aragon, MPH, Rachel Tyree, MPH and Matthew Le Veque
  
Board 4
Tweets, retweets and public health messaging: How health departments engage the public in obesity prevention   
Susan Hoffner, MPH, Penny Liberatos, PhD and Barbara Ilardi, CDN, MPA
Board 5
Nationalism, Racism, and “Bad” Immigrants: Online Discourse Surrounding Unaccompanied Central American Minors and Its Implications   
Patrick Mullen, William Lopez, PhD, MPH, Montana Nash, Julia Porth and Alana M.W. LeBron, PhD, MS
Board 6
Leveraging technology to enhance peer-sharing among prevention providers: Virtual approaches for collaboration   
Molly Ferguson, MPH, CPS, Carol Oliver, MA, Libby Cole, MBA and Chelsey Goddard, MPH
Board 7
Depressed on Pinterest: How Pinterest users respond to pins about depression in the light of social support and coping   
Jeanine Guidry, M.S., M.P.S., Yan Jin, Ph.D. and Yuan Zhang, Ph.D.
Board 8
Role of vape shop marketing and awareness of FDA regulations in employees' perceptions of electronic cigarettes   
Robert Garcia, MPH, ATC, Lourdes Baezconde Garbanati, PhD, MPH, Jocelyn Garcia, Jennifer Truong, Tess Cruz, PhD, MPH, CHES, Jennifer B. Unger, PhD, Jon Patrick Allem, PhD (c), Anupreet Sidhu, Robert Gomez, MPH, Leah Meza, Rosa Barahona, Yaneth Rodriguez, MPH, Mary Ann Pentz, PhD, MA and Steve Sussman, PhD, FAAHB, FAPA
Board 9
Mapping the Health Information Environment in a Rural, Culturally Diverse Region   
A Susana Ramirez, Ph.D., MPH, Erendira Estrada, BA and Ariana Ruiz, BA
Board 10
Using digital narrative and social media to reduce breastfeeding disparities in the African American community   
Elizabeth Bayne, MPH, MFA
  

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

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: LGBT Caucus of Public Health Professionals, Breastfeeding Forum

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