Monday 11.17.14 | Tuesday 11.18.14 | Wednesday 11.19.14
Download a PDF of the presentation list and floor plans for the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
Monday-11.17.14
8:30-10:00 am
3040.0-MCC 245
Table 5-Economic Evaluation of 2012 Fungal Meningitis Outbreak in New River Valley
Nargesalsadat Dorratoltaj, MS, MPH
8:30-10:00 am
3040.0-MCC 245
Table 7-Developing a Funding Allocation Model for STI Services Using Population Data
Lori Bilello, PhD, MBA, MHS
8:30 -10:00 am
3040.0-MCC 245
Table 8-Assessing Variation in Revenue Generating Strategies of Local Health Departments
Huabin Luo, PhD
8:30-10:00 am
3041.0-MCC 231
Developing a Tool for Estimating Local Health Departments' Costs of Providing Public Health Services
Nancy Winterbauer, PhD, MS, MA
8:30-10:00 am
3041.0-MCC 231
Local Health Department Communicable Disease Control Expenditures and Their Impact Health: Findings fro m the Public Health Activities and Services Tracking (PHAST) Study
Betty Bekemeier, RN, PhD, FAAN
8:30-10:00 am
3041.0-MCC 231
Local Health Department Environmental Health Expenditures and Their Impact Health: Findings from the Public Health Activities and Services Tracking (PHAST) Study
Betty Bekemeier, RN, PhD, FAAN
8:30-10:00 am
3041.0-MCC 231
Economic Cost of Communicable Disease Monitoring in Colorado
Adam J Atherly, PhD
10:30-11:30 am
3082.0- MCC Hall BC
Board 2-Priority of Public Health Issues among Policy Makers after an Economic Recession
Meghan McGurk, MPH
10:30-12:00 pm
3149.0-MCC 229
Equity in the Allocation of Core Public Health Services in Ohio
Patrick Bernet, PhD
10:30-12:00 pm
3166.0- MCC 223
Medicaid Expansions and Public Health Spending: Cross-subsidies, Complementarities, and Crowd Out
Glen Mays, PhD, MPH
12:30-2:00 pm
3161.08- Hilton: Oak Valley
Perspectives from an Expansion State
Glen Mays, PhD, MPH
12:30-2:00 pm
3236.0- MCC R09
Improving Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning in Wisconsin
Julie A. Willems Van Dijk, RN, PhD
2:30-4:00 pm
3373.0- Hilton: Versailles Ballroom
Table 8-Monitoring and Targeting Policy Improvement Utilizing a Novel Sub-county Tobacco Policy Surveillance System
Laura Hitchcock, JD
2:30-4:00 pm
3396.0-Hilton: Newberry
Local Health Departments as Partners in School Health: A State-Wide Assessment of Collaboration for Coordinated School Health
Kristina Knight, MPH
Tuesday-11.18.14
7:30-9:00 am
Breakfast session on "Version 1" Foundational Public Health Services Framework (Registration Required)
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Room 06
Estimating the Costs of Foundational Public Health Services
Glen Mays, PhD, MPH, and CB Mamaril, PhD
8:30-10:00 am
4037.0- MCC 344
Table 8-Implementation of Priority Actions for School Health: A State Level Profile of the Role of Local Health Departments
Kristina Knight, MPH
8:30-10:00 am
4041.0- Hilton: Grand Salon 6
Infrastructural and Governance Characteristics of Local Health Departments Associated with Their Use of Health Informatics
Gulzar Shah, PhD, MStat, MS
8:30-10:00 am
4041.0- Hilton: Grand Salon 6
Effect of Automation of Communicable Disease Reports on Public Health Surveillance
Uzay Kirbiyik, MPH
10:30- 11:30 am
4087.0- MCC Hall BC
Board 8-Collaboration for Community Health Assessment and Planning: What are the Determinants?
Karmen Williams, MSPH, MA
10:30- 11:30 am
4087.0- MCC Hall BC
Board 9-Local Health Department Capacities in Medically Underserved Areas
Huabin Luo
10:30-11:30 am
4088.0- MCC Hall BC
Board 6-A Longitudinal Analysis of Local Health Department Efficiency
Rachel Hogg, MA
10:30 -11:30 am
4090.0-MCC Hall BC
Board 3-Relationship Between Tobacco Program Spending and Network Relationships
Patrick Bernet, PhD
10:30 –12:00 pm
4131.0- MCC 229
Geographic Variation in the Delivery of High-Value Public Health Services: Exploring Causes and Consequences
Glen Mays, PhD, MPH
10:30 -12:00 pm
4131.0- MCC 229
Standardizing Measurement to Better Study Variation in Local Public Health Services: Minnesota's MPROVE Experience
Kim Gearin, PhD, MS
10:30-12:00 pm
4131.0- MCC 229
Economic Cost of Communicable Disease Services in Colorado
Adam J. Atherly, PhD
10:30-12:00 pm
4131.0- MCC 229
Developing the Data and Evidence for Public Health Services Research and Decision-Making
Betty Bekemeier, RN, PhD, FAAN
10:30 -12:00 pm
4131.0- MCC 229
Using Cost Analysis to Prioritize Cost Saving Strategies by Local Health Departments in Delivering STI Services
Lori Bilello, PhD, MBA, MHS
12:30-2:00 pm
4228.0- MCC 245
Table 3-Public Health Agency Participation in Accountable Care Organizations: Opportunities and Obstacles
Richard Ingram, DrPH
2:30-3:30 pm
4287.0- MCC Hall BC
Board 6-Dissemination of County Data on Distracted Driving to Inform Policy and Program Development
Laura Hitchcock, JD
2:30-3:30 pm
4289.0- MCC Hall BC
Board 6-Addressing Educationally Relevant Health Disparities: The Partnership of Local Health Departments and Public Schools
Kristina Knight, MPH
2:30-4:00 pm
4324.0- MCC 229
Measuring the Costs of Implementing Quality Improvement Initiatives for Local Health Departments in Nebraska
Li-Wu Chen, PhD
2:30-4:00 pm
4324.0- MCC 229
Public Health Agencies' Level of Engagement in and Perceived Barriers to PHAB National Voluntary Accreditation
Gulzar Shah, PhD, MStat, MS
2:30-4:00 pm
4325.0- MCC 230
A Systematic Review of Local and State Boards of Health
Elizabeth Harper, MPH
4:30-5:30 pm
4377.0-MCC Hall BC
Board 4-Feasibility of Generating Community Health Measures Based on Geospatially -Enabled Electronic Health Records
Karen Frederickson Comer, MLA
Wednesday-11.19.14
8:30-10:00 am
5052.0-MCC 231
Economic Evaluation of Outbreak Responses of Pertussis, Tuberculosis and Fungal Meningitis in New River Valley, Virginia
Kaja Abbas, PhD, MPH
8:30-10:00 am
5065.0-MCC 343
Learning from Positive Outlier Local Health Departments in Maternal and Child Health
Tamar Klaiman, PhD, MPH
12:30-2:00 pm
5157.0- MCC 206
Models of Collaboration Involving Public Health Departments, Hospitals and Other Community Partners
F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD
12:30-2:00 pm
5161.0- MCC 212
Influence of Public Health Spending and Staffing on Variation in Process and Outcome of Local Health Department Food Safety Inspections
Scott Frank, MD, MS
12:30-2:00 pm
5170.0- MCC 232
Sharing Public Health Functions and Capabilities: Critical Issues
Gianfranco Pezzino, MD, MPH