Meet SPH’s 2024 APHA Presenters and Awardees
SPH is proud to recognize 32 faculty, staff, and students representing UIC at the nation's preeminent public health conference
Read our guide below to learn more about the 38 presentations that will be led by School of Public Health faculty, staff, and students. If you're attending APHA, be sure to stop by our booth (#2328) in the Exhibit Hall to say hi, meet our experts, and grab some UIC gear.
Learn more about the American Public Health Association (APHA) conference here. Can't make the conference? Be sure to follow our social media channels for a behind the scenes look SPH's presentations.
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Sunday, October 27 Heading link
How community-based organizations view and use data: Practices, barriers, and opportunities
Session and weblink: 2061
Time: 2:30pm-4pm
Location: MCC 212AB
| Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Institute for Health Research and Policy
Clinical research evaluation and assessment towards optimal recruitment (CREATOR): A study engaging black Americans in Chicagoland
Session and weblink: 2102
Time: 3pm-4pm
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| PhD Candidate, Division of Community Health Sciences
Practical Applications of AI Happening Right Now in Public Health
Session and weblink: 2140.2
Time: 4:30pm-6pm
| Dean and Professor, School of Public Health
Navigating a fragmented resource landscape: How the healthy Chicago public schools network specialist makes connections to needed resources and services to help schools build cultures of health and wellness
Session and weblink: 2188
Time: 4:30pm-6pm
Location: Hilton – Symphony Ballroom 1
| Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy Administration
A network specialist to support implementation of WSCC-related policies in Chicago Public Schools: Final impact and cost-effectiveness analysis
Session and weblink: 2188
Time: 4:30pm-6pm
Location: Hilton – Symphony Ballroom 1
| Senior Research Specialist, Institute for Health Research and Policy
Professional learning collaboratives to support school health and wellness policy implementation in Chicago public schools (CPS): Promoting collaboration and shared learning among CPS wellness champions
Session and weblink: 2188
Time: 4:30pm-6pm
Location: Hilton – Symphony Ballroom 1
| Research Associate, Division of Health Policy Administration
The first 1,000 days: Supporting babies through a digital dairy nutrition program
Session and weblink: 2209
Time: 5pm-6pm
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| DrPH Candidate
Changes in children’s exposure to food and beverage advertising on television from 2013 to 2022
Session and weblink: 2209
Time: 5pm-6pm
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| PhD Candidate, Division of Health Policy Administration
Implementation Assessment of an Illinois Healthy Beverage Default Law with Restaurant Managers
Session and weblink: 2210
Time: 5pm-6pm
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| Research Specialist, Division of Health Policy Administration
Monday, October 28 Heading link
Championing oral health with harm reduction strategies
Session and weblink: 3002
Time: 8:30am-10am
Location: Hilton – Orchestra Ballroom D
| DrPH Candidate
A qualitative study on Latino parents’ attitudes towards play among Chicago families with children under two years of age
Session and weblink: 3094
Time: 10:30am-11:30am
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| MPH Student, Division of Community Health Sciences
Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among adults in Chicago
Session and weblink: 3134
Time: 10:30am-12pm
Location: MCC 100J
| PhD Candidate, Division of Community Health Sciences
Be a doer: Join the public health advocacy consensus task force (PH-ACT) and improve public health advocacy education
Session and weblink: 3148
Time: 10:30am-12pm
Location: Hilton – Orchestra Ballroom D
| DrPH Candidate
Count on sleep: Addressing sleep apnea disparities through public awareness and communications
Session and weblink: 3156
Time: 10:30am-12pm
Location: Hilton – Orchestra Ballroom D
| DrPH Candidate
A community-engaged rapid assessment in Chicago’s high economic hardship communities: Evaluating community health literacy, chronic health conditions, and trust in public health
Session and weblink: 3158
Time: 10:30am-12pm
Location: Hilton – Ballroom A
| Research Specialist, Collaboratory for Health Justice
The community health worker – emergency response and preparedness (CHW-ERP) project: Partnering to grow a culturally and linguistically diverse public health workforce
Session and weblink: 3168
Time: 12:30-1:30pm
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| Director of Undergraduate Programs & Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Unveiling unheard voices: Exploring historical and contemporary struggles among black immigrants in the Pittsburgh area
Session and weblink: 3209
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Community Health Sciences
The association of active travel-oriented zoning with measures of walk and bike trips from mobility data
Session and weblink: 3225
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| Senior Research Specialist, Institute for Health Research and Policy
The healthy CPS network specialist: A model for supporting implementation of the whole school, whole community, whole child framework
Session and weblink: 3231
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| Senior Associate Dean and Professor, Division of Health Policy Administration
Tuesday, October 29 Heading link
Impact of a sugar‑sweetened beverage tax two‑year post‑tax implementation in Seattle, Washington, United States
Session and weblink: 4005
Time: 8:30am-10am
Location: MCC L100FG
| Distinguished Professor, Director of the Division of Health Policy Administration
Championing oral health with harm reduction strategiesAssessing the impact of oral health disease on quality of life in Ecuador: A mixed-methods study
Session and weblink: 4050
Time: 8:30am-10am
Location: Hilton Symphony Ballroom 1
| Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Collaborating for equity and justice in voluntary, member-based professional associations
Session and weblink: 4055
Time: 8:30am-10am
Location: MCC 103B
| DrPH Candidate
Individual and network characteristics associated with poly-injection drug use among young people who inject heroin in the Chicago metropolitan area
Session and weblink: 4066
Time: 10:30am-11:30am
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| PhD Candidate, Division of Community Health Sciences
The effects of the New Orleans healthy kids’ meal beverage ordinance on kids’ meal beverage offerings on online ordering platforms
Session and weblink: 4076
Time: 10:30am-11:30am
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| Postdoctoral Research Associate, Division of Health Policy Administration
Data walks to explore risk perception, and knowledge regarding fishing, fish consumption and PFAS among high risk Lake Michigan angler communities
Session and weblink: 4076
Time: 10:30am-11:30am
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| MPH Student, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Use of think tank model to foster innovation capacity within a rural health department
Session and weblink: 4077
Time: 10:30am-11:30am
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| DrPH Candidate
What is public health? an applied, collaborative, introductory text centered on health equity
Session and weblink: 4159
Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| Director of Undergraduate Programs & Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
PrEP outreach program at an urban academic health system
Session and weblink: 4178
Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| Research Associate, Division of Community Health Sciences
Migrant Farmworker Housing: A review of the current literature
Session and weblink: 4178.1
Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| MS Student, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Understanding Systemic Barriers to Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening among Black/African American Women in Illinois: A Qualitative Study
Session and weblink: 4192.4
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| MPH Student, Division of Community Health Sciences
Collaboration factors and opportunities in the development of a community information ecology: Co-evolution in Kansas City
Session and weblink: 4196
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm
Location: MCC Exhibit Hall BCD
| DrPH Candidate
Examining the relationship of persistent organic pollutants and diabetes risk in Great Lakes sport fish consumers using gaussian graphical model
Session and weblink: 4227
Time: 2:30pm-4pm
Location: MCC L100J
| PhD Candidate, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Truth decay and tooth decay: Behavioral health and community water fluoridation
Session and weblink: 4261
Time: 2:30pm-4pm
Location: Hilton – Marquette Ballroom 2
| DrPH Candidate
Zoning code reforms: A proxy for healthy community environments?
Session and weblink: 4264
Time: 2:30pm-4pm
Location: MCC 203AB
| Senior Associate Dean and Professor, Division of Health Policy Administration
Fruit and vegetable intake and food and nutrition security among SNAP participants: Baseline results from an evaluation of the “eat well be well” SNAP incentive program
Session and weblink: 4305
Time: 4:30pm-6pm
Location: MCC 102C
| Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy Administration
Wednesday, October 30 Heading link
Dental care access for young children with Medicaid: Online statements versus reality
Session and weblink: 5038.1
Time: 8:30am-10am
Location: Hilton – Ballroom G
| Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Institute for Health Research and Policy
Supporting and optimizing the workforce through the science of happiness
Session and weblink: 5043
Time: 8:30am-10am
Location: MCC 103A
| DrPH Candidate
An equity journey: Lessons learned from local health department’s efforts to advance a community power building approach to COVID-19 response and recovery
Session and weblink: 5061
Time: 10:30am-12pm
Location: MCC 212AB
| Director of the DrPH Program and Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy Administration
University counseling centers/services and COVID-19: An exploration of feelings of isolation, stress, and anxiety among college students
Session and weblink: 5109
Time: 12:30pm-2pm
Location: Hilton – Rochester
| Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Community Health Sciences
Meet The Experts Heading link
Are you interested in a specific degree program or area of public health research? Plan to stop by our booth (#2328) at the times below to meet our experts!
Sunday, October 27
1pm-2pm: Elizabeth Jarpe-Ratner, PhD ‘18, MPH, MST, Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy Administration
2pm-3:30pm: Jamie Chriqui, PhD, Senior Associate Dean and Professor, Division of Health Policy Administration
3pm-4pm: Meghan Mason, PhD, MPH, Director of Undergraduate Programs & Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Monday, October 28
9am-10am: Elizabeth Jarpe-Ratner, PhD ‘18, MPH, MST, Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy Administration
9:30am-11am: Michele McCay, DrPH, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor and HPA MPH Applied Practice Experience Advisor, Division of Health Policy Administration and DrPH Program
11am-12:30pm: Wayne Giles, MD, MS, Dean, School of Public Health
12pm-1:30pm: Lisa Powell, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Director of the Division of Health Policy Administration, and Director of the Illinois Prevention Research Center, Institute for Health Research and Policy
1:30pm-3pm: Ben Shaw, PhD, MPH, Division Director and Professor, Division of Community Health Sciences
2:30pm-4pm: Kristen Malecki, MPH, PhD, Division Director and Professor, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Tuesday, October 29
9:30am-11am: Wayne Giles, MD, MS, Dean, School of Public Health
3pm-4pm: Christina Welter, DrPH, MPH, Director of the DrPH Program and Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy Administration