2015 Keeneland Conference Poster Session A

Room: Magnolia Jr. Ballroom
Tuesday, April 21, 2015, from 10:30 to 11:30 am


Board #1: Job Task Analysis in Public Health: What are the Essential Tasks of Public Health Professionals?

Primary Investigator: Richard Kurz, PhD
Co-Investigator(s): Laura King, MPH, CHES
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Board #2: Hospital Community Benefit in the Context of the Larger Public Health System: A State-level Analysis of Hospital and Governmental Public Health Spending Across the United States.

Primary Investigator: Simone Singh, PhD, MA, BBA
Co-Investigator(s): Gary Young, PhD, JD


Board #3: Applying Failure Modes and Effects Analysis to Public Health Models: The Breathe Easy at Home Program

Primary Investigator: Margaret Reid, RN
Co-Investigator(s): Megan Sandel, MD, MPH, FAAP


Board #4: Developing a Tool to Assess Practitioner Capacity to Change Policies and Environments

Primary Investigator: Jennifer Leeman, DrPH, MPH
Co-Investigator(s): Jean Wiecha, PhD, MS; Larissa Calancie, MPH; & Alexis Moore, MPH


Board #5: Do LHDs with Better Health Informatics Capacity Have Better Preparedness Capacity?

Primary Investigator: Gulzar Shah, PhD, MS
Co-Investigator(s): Bobbie Newell, MEd, BS & Ruth Whitworth, MPH, BA


Board #6: Biases in Using Geospatially-Enabled Electronic Health Records to Measure Population Health

Primary Investigator: Brian Dixon, PhD, MPA, BA
Co-Investigator(s): P. Joe Gibson, PhD, MPH; Karen Frederickson-Comer; Jian Zhou, PhD, MS; & Marc Rosenman, MD, MS


Board #7: Modeling Return on Investment for HIV/STD Partner Services:  Results from the NYS Partner Services Time Study

Primary Investigator: Britney Johnson, MPH
Co-Investigator(s): Wenhui Feng, MPP; Feng Qian, MD, PhD; & Erika Martin, PhD, MPH


Board #8: Cross-Jurisdictional Services for Public Health in a Rural State: Findings from Kansas.

Primary Investigator: Sarah Hartsig, MS
Co-Investigator(s): Shawna Chapman, PhD, MPH; Barbara Starrett, MPH; & Gianfranco Pezzino, MD, MPH


Board #9: How Local and State Public Health Workers Learn About and Use Research Evidence

Primary Investigator: Rebekah R. Jacob, MPH; MSW
Co-Investigator(s): Peg Allen, PhD, MPH; Linda Ahrendt, Med; & Ross C. Brownson, PhD


Board #10: Accreditation Efforts in Georgia: A Technical Assistance Observational Study

Primary Investigator: Angela Peden, MPH
Co-Investigator(s): Gulzar Shah, PhD, MS; Russell Toal, MPH; Dayna Alexander, DrPH, MSPH; Alesha Wright, MPH; Nandi Marshall, DrPH, MPH, CHES; Ashton Anderson, MS; & Scott Uhlich


Board #11: LHD’s Role in SIM Award Programs

Primary Investigator: Nathalie Robin, MPH
Co-Investigator(s): Jiali Ye, PhD


Board #12: Characteristics on Having Community Health Workers as Full Time Equivalents in Local Health Departments

Primary Investigator: Quan Chen, MS, BA


Board #13: Dueling Ethical Constructs: A Pilot Study to Better Understand Barriers to Synergistic Public/Private Partnerships in Public Health

Primary Investigator: Kevin Borrup, JD, MPA, BA


Board #14: Missing Data in Electronic Health Records: Implications for Population Monitoring

Primary Investigator: Remle Newton-Dame, MPH


Board #15: Predictors of PHAB Accreditation Status of Local Health Departments

Primary Investigator: Keith Branham, MPH, BS
Co-Investigator(s): Caroline Holsinger, MPH, BS, CPH & Miriam Siegel, MPH, BA


Board #16: HPV Vaccination in Kentucky: An Environmental Scan

Primary Investigator: B. Mark Evers, MD


Board #17: Summit County for Better Birth Outcomes, Every Baby Matters: A Community-Based Participatory Approach.

Primary Investigator: Aimee Budnik, MS, BS
Co-Investigator(s): Heather Beaird, PhD; Sherry Blair, BS; Jeffrey Krauss, BA, BS; & Monique Harris, MSW


Board #18: Applied Systems and Implementation Science to Support Population Health Outcomes in the Era of Health Reform

Primary Investigator: Dorothy Cilenti, DrPH, MSW, BS
Co-Investigator(s): Oscar Fleming, MSPH, BA; Kristen Hassmiller Lich, PhD; Amy Mullenix, MSPH, MSW; & Lewis Margolis, MD, MPH, FAAP


Board #19: Retention in HIV Care Between Testing and Treatment in AIDS Healthcare Foundation Facilities in Northern Nigeria (WITHDRAWN)

Primary Investigator: Folajinmi Oluwasina, MPH, BS


Board #20: Is Health Equity a Priority? Perceptions from Health System Decision Makers and Practitioners in British Columbia (See Poster Session B, Board 16)

Primary Investigator: MacDonald Marjorie, PhD, MA, BS, RN
Co-Investigator(s): Phuc Dang, MA, BA; Bernie Pauly, PhD, MA, BS, RN; Corrine Lowen, MA, BA; & Diane Allan, MS


Board #21: Identifying Predictors for Primary Prevention Activities in Local Health Departments: Understanding the Role of the Consolidation

Primary Investigator: Aimee Budnik, MS


Board #22: Process of Identifying Local Level Intermediate Measures that “Promote Mental Health and Prevent Substance Abuse” in the Prevention Agenda

Primary Investigator: Priti Irani, MSPH
Co-Investigator(s): Caroline Bolarinwa; Sean Haley, PhD; Christopher Maylahn, MPH; Sylvia Pirani, MPH; & David Shern, PhD


Board #23: Improving Hospital Perinatal Outcomes to Help Achieve Healthy People 2020

Primary Investigator: William Riley, PhD
Co-Investigator(s): Les Meredith; Rebecca Price; & Cecile Dinh, MPH


Board #24: Change Adaption: Local Health Department Accreditation Status and Leader Openness to Change

Primary Investigator: Emmanuel Jadhav, DrPH, MS, BS
Co-Investigator(s): James Holsinger, PhD; Glen Mays, PhD; & David Fardo, PhD


Board #25: Assessing the Role of State and Local Public Health in Outreach and Enrollment for Expanded Coverage

Primary Investigator: Amanda Cash, DrPH, MPH
Co-Investigator(s): Malcolm Williams, PhD, MPP


Board #26: Facilitating the uptake of Standardized Local Public Health Service Delivery Measures through PHAST

Primary Investigator: Greg Whitman, BA
Co-Investigator(s): Betty Bekemeier, PhD, MPH, RN; Seungeun Park, MSN, RN; Michelle Yip, MSN, RN; & Matthew Dunbar, PhD


Board #27: Assessing Public Health Law Knowledge and Use Among the Public Health Workforce in Nebraska

Primary Investigator: Jennifer Ibrahim, PhD, MPH
Co-Investigator(s): Elizabeth Platt, JD; Sarah Happy, JD; & Darrell Klein, JD


Board #28: A Typology of U.S. Local Boards of Health

Primary Investigator: Jeffery Jones, PhD, MA, BA
Co-Investigator(s): Yelena Tarasenko, DrPH, MPH, MPA & Ankit Bangar


Board #29: The Influence of Local Health Department Structure on Quality, Process, and Priorities of Community Health Assessment and Health Improvement Planning

Primary Investigator: Sara Tillie, BA
Co-Investigator(s): Melanie Golembiewski, MD; Alexandria Drake, MPH; & Scott Frank, MD, MS


Board #30: Modeling Supply Chain System Structure to Trace Sources of Food Contamination: Results from Stylized Models (See Poster Session B, Board 7)

Primary Investigator: Stan Finkelstein, MD, MS, BS
Co-Investigator(s): Richard Larson, PhD, MS, BS


Board #31: Comparisons of Manager and Employee Estimates of Time Spent on Communicable Disease Monitoring

Primary Investigator: Adam Atherly, PhD
Co-Investigator(s): Melanie Mason, MS; Lisa VanRaemdonck, MPH; & Sarah Lampe, MPH


Board #32: The Role of a Patient-Centered Advisory Council in Defining Health Care Quality

Primary Investigator: Jimmy Parks, DrPH, RN
Co-Investigator(s): Kevin Ryan, JD, MA


Board #33: Expanding the Wisconsin Community Health Improvement Plan and Process (CHIPP) Quality Measurement Tool to Address Hospital based Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs)

Primary Investigator: Melanie Golembiewski, MD, BS
Co-Investigator(s): Alexandria Drake, MPH, BA & Scott Frank, MD, MS, BA


Board #34: Optimizing Expenditures Across the HIV Continuum of Care: Bridging Public Health and Health Care Systems to Improve Patient Outcomes

Primary Investigator: Gregg Gonsalves, BS
Co-Investigator(s): Paul Cleary, PhD; Edward Kaplan, PhD; & David Paltiel, PhD, MBA


Board #35: The impact of the Affordable Care Act on Delivery of Childhood Immunization Services in Rural Communities

Primary Investigator: Van Do-Reynoso, MPH
Co-Investigator(s): Paul Brown, PhD


Board #36: Injury Related Infant Mortality in Arkansas: A Policy Prespective

Primary Investigator: Sharla Smith, PhD, MPH, BS