CCP Staff to Present at APHA Annual Meeting

Published: November 4, 2010, 12:00 am

CCP staff will present at 15 sessions at the American Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting, which runs from November 6-10 in Denver, CO.

To learn more about the 138th Annual Meeting of the APHA and view a complete program, click here.

The following is a complete listing of all CCP staff presentations at the APHA Annual Meeting:

Oral Sessions

Monday, November 8
10:30am – Session 3108.2: Developing CHW Associations and Networks: Opportunities and Challenges
"National roll call for equal opportunities for community health workers in rural Mali"

2:30pm – Session 3322: Emerging Infectious Diseases Including Avian & Pandemic Influenza

2:30pm – Session 3323: International Health Communication/Behavior Change Communication
“Integrating mass media and community-based approaches to promote the use of insecticide-treated bednets in Tanzania”

4:30pm – Session 3405: HIV/AIDS 1
"Motivating people for HIV testing: Evidence based integrated communication campaign"
“Multi-level and multi-faceted factors in adolescent girls' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS: Community perspectives from Botswana, Malawi, and Mozambique”

Tuesday, November 9
10:30am – Session 4117: Health Communication for International Sexual Health
“Using radio to reduce stigma, improve knowledge and promote HIV testing: The Malawi Radio Diaries program”
“Exposure to BRIDGE project & its effect on self-efficacy among Malawians”

Wednesday, November 10
8:30am – Session 5055: Systems Thinking

Poster Sessions

Sunday, November 7
4:30pm – 2063.1: Communications in Technology
Board 4: “Using information technology to organize and provide access to information for health professionals in less developed countries”

Monday, November 8
2:30pm – 3267: Global Success and Challenges in HIV/AIDS Research
Board 6: "Allure of a modern social identity and adolescent girls' vulnerability to HIV: Qualitative evidence from Botswana, Malawi, and Mozambique"

2:30pm - 3272: Global Interventions on Adolescent Reproductive Health
Board 7: “Individual and social factors related to sexual behavioral intention among a sample of Bangladesh adolescents”

Tuesday November 9
4:30pm – 4326: Poster Session 4: HIV/AIDS
Board 1: "Intersection of alcohol disinhibition & HIV exposure: Effects on girls vulnerability in Botswana, Malawi, and Mozambique"

4:30pm – 4338: Cultural Competency Communication / Mass Media Influence
Board 1: “How self-efficacy can assist in translating knowledge into behavior: Promoting liver cancer prevention through Hepatitis B screening among Asian immigrants in Maryland”
Board 2: “Role of acculturation in explaining breast cancer prevention behaviors among immigrant Asian Indian women in the United States”

Wednesday, November 10
8:30am – 5016: Poster Session 7: Health Systems
Board 1: “Strengthening health systems to meet information needs: A multi-country study”