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

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Think global, act local: Health equity in your neck of the woods

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Oral
Moderator:
Mario Brown, MPH

10:30am
Stress intervention and disease in African American lupus patients: The balancing lupus experiences with stress strategies (BLESS) study   
Edith M. Williams, PhD, MS, Diane L. Kamen, MD, MSCR and Megan Penfield, MS
  
10:46am
Answering the call: Health equity education and the public health workforce in Florida   
Deanna Wathington, MD, MPH, FAAFP, Thometta Brooks, MS, CGMP and Alma Dixon, Ed.D., MPH, RN
11:02am
Achieving health equity through “undoing racism”: The case of the Florida health equity commission   
Deborah Austin, PhD
     
  
11:18am
Longitudinal review of minority healthcare career development programs: A means to an end in improving health equity   
Knitasha Washington, DHA, MHA, FACHE, James Johnson, PhD, Rupert Evans, DHA,MPA,FACHE, Regnal Jones, PhD and Detmer Wells, MA
     
11:34am
An examination by race of differences in understanding health problems among men who sought health information   
Keith Elder, PhD, MPH, MPA, Caress Dean, MPH, Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH, MPA, MA, Jacqueline Wiltshire, PhD, MPH and Louise Meret-Hanke, PhD

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

Organized by: Black Caucus of Health Workers
Endorsed by: Ethics SPIG, HIV/AIDS, Medical Care, Public Health Nursing, Socialist Caucus, Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health

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