141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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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

3337.0
Innovative local and global public health initiatives that promote refugee and immigrant health

Monday, November 4, 2013: 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Oral
Moderator:
Ndidi Amutah, PhD, MPH, CHES

2:30pm
Improving African immigrant and refugee health: A community-based participatory research initiative   
Emeobong Martin, MPH, Marcos Pesquera, RPh, MPH, Deidre Washington, PhD and Marilyn Lynk, PhD
  
2:45pm
Innovative prevention & wellness efforts to address chronic hepatitis b in African immigrant communities in Philadelphia: Lessons from a pilot community program   
C. a. Cohen, MPH, DrPH(c), Kuan-Lung Daniel Chen, MPH, CPH and Amy B. Jessop, PhD, MPH
3:00pm
Physical activity among adult somali women: The cultural adaptation of an evidence-based intervention   
Kate Murray, PhD, MPH, Amina Sheik Mohamed, MPH, Amber Lung and Azieb Ermias
  
3:15pm
Using case studies to evaluate IPV prevention in immigrant and refugee communities   
Alberto Bouroncle, PhD, Cathleen Crain, MAA and Niel Tashima, PhD
3:30pm
Survivors as health promoters to prevent IPV in immigrant communities   
Claudia Medina and Sandra Ortsman
  

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

Organized by: Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health
Endorsed by: Ethics SPIG, International Health, Socialist Caucus, Vietnam Caucus, Community Health Planning and Policy Development, Community Health Workers, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

See more of: Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health