Published: October 22, 2011, 12:00 am
CCP staff will present at 14 oral sessions and 6 poster sessions at the American Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting, which runs from October 29 – November 2 in Washington, DC.
To learn more about the 139th Annual Meeting of the APHA and view a complete program, click here [1].
The following is a complete listing of all CCP staff presentations at the APHA Annual Meeting:
Oral Presentations
Monday, October 31
10:30am – Session 3163: Family Planning Research and Practice “Examining the North-South contraceptive divide in urban Nigeria: The importance of geography and religion” Marc Boulay, PhD, Lisa Cobb, MPH and Hilary M. Schwandt, PhD
12:30pm – Session 3244.0: Social Determinants of Health “'You are obliged to have a second person': Out-of-school girls and young women 12-19 describe increasing HIV risk behavior as a necessity for many to make ends meet in Cote d'Ivoire” Rachel A. Weber, PhD, Fatou Toure Cisse, PhD, Jeanine Coulibaly, MS and Regina Traore, PhD
12:30 – Session 3245.0: Women’s Health “Community perspectives on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Eastern DRC” Stella Babalola, PhD, Cynthis Scarlett, Mathurin Dodo and Allesia Radice
4:30pm – Session 3418: International Health Films Session 3 “Chumo (The Bride's Price)” Robert Ainslie, MA, Waziri Nyoni, MSc and Jordan Riber
Tuesday, November 1
10:30am – Session 4121.0: International Health Communication/Behavior Change Communication “What works? Understanding creative routes and triggers for development of communication for family planning in India based on Formative Assessments and Pretest Findings” Heer Chokshi, Shuvi Sharma, Basil Safi, Asia Division Chief and Kimberly Rook “School-Level Effects of the Go Girls! Initiative: Findings from Botswana, Malawi, and Mozambique” Carol Underwood, PhD and Hilary Schwandt, PhD
10:30am – Session 4126: Working with Communities in Low Income Countries to Improve Maternal and Child Health: Using Local Resources and Technology “Muslim religious scholars impact maternal and newborn health in Pakistan” Suruchi Sood, PhD, Atif Butt, Fayyaz Khan, Rabia Jamy, Kimberly Rook and Basil Safi, Asia Division Chief
Wednesday, Nov 2
8:30am – Session 5060.0: HIV/AIDS 3 “Social networks and HIV prevention: Qualitative Insights from an Intervention with Male Clients of Female Sex Workers in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic” Clare Barrington, PhD, MPH, Santo Rosario, BA, Melchor Moya, BA and Deanna Kerrigan, PhD, MPH “Changing attitudes towards cross-generational sex through media: Evaluation of the Fataki campaign in Tanzania” Michelle Kaufman, PhD, Deo Ng'Wanansabi, MPH, Adiel Mushi, PhD, Robert Karam, MA, Anna McCartney-Melstad, MA, MHS and Bennett Fimbo, MD, MPH “Design, implementation, and evaluation of the Go Girls! adult-child communication intervention in Botswana, Malawi, and Mozambique” Hilary M. Schwandt, PhD and Carol Underwood, PhD
8:30am – Session 5082: Community-Based Health Communication Campaigns “Think Big, Start Small, Act Now--Baltimore City takes a new look at birth outcomes and safe sleep—an innovative, multi-level approach” Cathleen Church-Balin, MHS, MBA, Stephanie Regenold, MD, Marc Boulay, PhD, Rebecca S. Dineen, MS and Gena O'Keefe, MD
10:30am – Session 5127: The Role of Gender in Relationships & HIV/AIDS “Culturally-Embedded Extraordinary Positive Deviant Stories Inspire HIV/AIDS Dialogue, Behavioral and Normative Change” Patricia Poppe, MS, MA, Maria Elena Figueroa, PhD, Dida Pinho and Victoria Flores Fernandes, MSPH
10:30am – Session 5131.0: Women’s Health 2 “Barrier of uncertainty: Use of contraception in three regions of Ghana” Rachel A. Weber, PhD, Joseph Limange, MBA, Angela Acosta, MSPH and Ian Tweedie, MPH
10:30am – Session 5132: Malaria & Vector-Borne Diseases “Understanding Acceptance and Rejection of Indoor Residual Spraying in Tanzania” Michelle Kaufman, PhD, Datius Rweyemamu, PhD, Jacob Macha, BA, Fabrizio Molteni, MD and Robert Ainslie, MA
Poster Sessions
Monday, October 31
2:30 – Session 3297: Contraceptive Choice, Use and Programmatic Issues “Fear of family planning use among urban Nigerians and the role of health care professionals in addressing this fear” Hilary M. Schwandt, PhD, Marc Boulay, PhD, Joanna Skinner, MHS, Abdulmumin Saad, MBBS, MPH, PhD and Kathleen Frank, MHS
2:30 – Session 3299: Considerations of Gender and Reproductive Health “Initiating the family planning conversation in urban Nigeria: A difficult task for women” Hilary M. Schwandt, PhD, Marc Boulay, PhD, Joanna Skinner, MHS, Abdulmumin Saad, MBBS, MPH, PhD and Kathleen Frank, MHS
4:30pm – Session 3394: Poster Session – Mobilization for Public Health Partnership “Policy Implications of Addressing Young Adolescents with an Integrated Nutrition, Hygiene and Reproductive Health Intervention: Evidence from Rural Uttar Pradesh” Nandita Kapadia-Kundu, PhD, Geetali Trivedi, MA, Ajay Misra, Phd, Meenakshi Dixit, MA, Kimberly Rook and Basil A. Safi, MPH, PE, CHES
Tuesday, November 1
4:30pm – Session 4350: IH Poster Session: Maternal and Child Health “Evidence-Based Communication Programming to Improve Health and Nutrition Behaviors in Young Rural Adolescent Girls in Uttar Pradesh, India” Nandita Kapadia-Kundu, PhD, Geetali Trivedi, MA, Ajay Misra, Phd, Kimberly Rook and Basil Safi, Asia Division Chief
4:30pm – Session 4358: Global Reproductive Health and Rights “Low awareness of family planning service sites among community members in Nigeria” Abdulmumin Saad, MBBS, MPH, PhD, Joanna Skinner, MHS, Marc Boulay, PhD, Hilary M. Schwandt, PhD and Akanni Ibukun Akinyemi, PhD
Wednesday, November 2
8:30am – Session 5009: Prevention of HIV/AIDS & other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) “Factors associated with utilization of HIV testing services in Integrated Counseling and Testing Centers (ICTC) in India: How can behavior change communication increase use?” Nilesh Chatterjee, PhD, MA, MBBS, Sanjanthi Velu, Chief of Party, JHU CCP India, Basil Safi, Asia Division Chief and Kimberly Rook
