141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Online Program

5154.0
Strategies for reducing the impact of infectious diseases, improving immunization, and mitigating transmission

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Oral
Protecting the public from communicable diseases via various prevention or control method is essential. Learn from best practices in flu prevention, HIV, Syphilis, and HPV prevention in a variety of settings.
Session Objectives: Identify at least two areas of need for pandemic influenza NPI training. Explain how the protective benefit of flu immunization in schools accrues to the adult community as well as the children
Moderator:
Amy B. Jessop, PhD, MPH

12:30pm
Nonpharmaceutical interventions for pandemic influenza: An assessment of communication, training, and guidance needs of state, tribal, local, and territorial public health officials   
Jasmine Kenney, MPH, Kathryn Maddox, MPH, MCHES, Julie Suzuki Crumly, Ph.D, MCHES and Noreen Qualls, DrPH, MSPH
     
12:50pm
Increasing influenza vaccination rates through a high school classroom intervention   
Tom Benton, MD, MPH, Scot Flamand, Jarah Blackburn, Husang Lee, Mary Peoples-Shep, DrPH and Parker Small, MD
     
1:10pm
Customizing a cross-community response plan to address the increase in syphilis among men who have sex with men: Houston Texas   
Lupita Thornton, STD Program Manager
1:30pm
Taking the "fast track" to better care for opioid addicts with hepatitis c   
James Morrill, MD, PhD, Christina Carr, MD Candidate 2014, Ann-Marie Duffy-Keane, MPH, William Bean, PhD, MPH, MBA, Jean Bernhardt, PhD, RN/NP and Sonia Burgos

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Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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