2025 APHA Presentations
Join the UGA College of Public Health at this year’s APHA Conference in Washington, D.C. Many students, faculty and staff are presenting. You can view their poster and presentation times below.
Monday, November 3rd
Institute for Disaster Management
- 10:30 AM: Kelli McCarthy, Morgan Taylor, Curt Harris
Preparing Public Health Leaders for Tomorrow: Integrating Experiential Learning into Graduate Disaster Management Education (3098.0) - 10:30 AM: Alyssa Ragan, Curt Harris
Weathering the Storm with Healthcare Preparedness (Board 5)
Health Policy & Management
- 3:15 PM: Rebecca Baskam, Grace Bagwell Adams
“Prioritizing the Building Blocks for Co-Regulation and Language Development with Families of Hospitalized Newborns: Nurturing a Community of Practice for Home Visitors” (3292.0)
Health Promotion & Behavior
- 11:00 AM, Lisa Renzi-Hammond
Public Health’s Role in Healthy Aging: Recommendations for Research and Education in Aging (3116.0) - 12:30 PM, Christopher Floyd (Undergraduate student)
The 3 Part Data Review focused on UHC’s Counseling and Psychiatric Service “Access” Model Program Improvement and Analysis, (Board 6) - 2:30 PM, Lucy Ingram
Amplifying Black womens’ voices: Structural and social determinants of inequities in maternal morbidity and mortality among Black women in rural Georgia (Board 8) - 2:30 PM, Christina Proctor
“She’s just a girl, she doesn’t know any better”: Using Role Congruity Theory to understand occupational stress and mental health outcomes of female farmers. (3297.0) - 2:30 PM, Helen Dupree (Doctoral student)
The impact of Question, Persuade, Refer training on school faculty and staff’s perceived behavioral control in identifying suicidality and facilitating timely intervention (Board 1) - 2:30 PM, Corey Ingram (Doctoral student)
“Gentlemen Respecting & Interacting in Truth (G.R.I.T) Healthy BLACK Masculinity” (Table 8)
Bridging Gaps: Addressing HIV and Black Mental Health Disparities (Table 5) - 2:30 PM, Noah Hopkins (Doctoral student)
Participant feedback from the administration of Mental Health First Aid and Question, Persuade, Refer training in an Alternative School District in Georgia (Board 2)
Tuesday, November 4th
Health Promotion & Behavior
- 10:30 AM, Deborah Shomuyiwa (Doctoral student)
Digital Dating and Sexual Risk: Analyzing Risk Behavior by Partner-Seeking Modality (Board 6) - 10:30 AM, Noah Hopkins (Doctoral student)
Occupational Injuries and Preferred Treatment Avenues Among Migrant Farmworkers (Board 4) - 12:30 PM, Dione Geiling (Undergraduate student)
Needs & Norms: Consent, Communication, and College (4280.0) - 2:30 PM, Leah Wang
Relationship Dynamics, Casual Partner-Seeking, and PrEP Awareness among Young Men who have sex with Men: A Latent Profile Analysis (Board 9) - 3:30 PM, Dione Geiling (Undergraduate student)
Scrolling for Answers: The Influence of Social Media on Adolescent Sexual Health Knowledge (Board 3)
Wednesday, November 5th
Health Promotion & Behavior
- 8:45 AM, Nathan Hansen & Samantha Clinton (Doctoral student)
The effects of adversity in youth and experiences of gay community stress on depressive symptoms among young gay and bisexual men, and non-binary individuals (5043.0) - 11:15 AM: Joyce Ndungu (Doctoral student)
Surveillance of Child Maltreatment: Lessons from Post-COVID Trends in Risk Identification and Reporting (5114.0)
Past Presentations
Sunday, November 2nd
Institute for Disaster Management
- 3:00 PM: Kelli McCarthy, Abbey Reber, Paul Link, Curt Harris
Strengthening Regional Preparedness for Mass Casualty Incidents: A Coalition-Based Approach to the 15 ’til 50 Exercise in Florida (Board 8)
Health Policy & Management
- 5:00 PM: Rebecca Baskam, Grace Bagwell Adams
Direct Measures of Family and Child Food Security, Food Capacity, and Food Dignity: A pilot study spanning 15 counties in Northeast Georgia.” (Board 1)
Health Promotion & Behavior
- 1:00 PM, Christina Proctor
“Drinking beer helps me forget, but the next day I feel the same” : Substance use in migrant farmworkers and educational solutions (Board 8) - 1:00 PM, Tamora Callands
Awareness and motivation to use HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among Black women: in-depth interviews in Atlanta (Board 5) - 1:00 PM, Noah Hopkins (Doctoral student)
Barriers to healthcare access among migrant farmworkers living in Georgia (Board 2) - 4:45 PM, Deborah Shomuyiwa (Doctoral student):
What Black Women Want: A Computational Analysis of Black Women’s Visions for Equitable Maternal Care (2199.0) - 5:00 PM, Christina Proctor:
Assessing rural farmers’ perspectives on useful avenues for mental health treatment (2182.0) - 5:00 PM, Sydnee Adams (MPH student)
From protection to pleasure: Centering Black women’s voices in sexual health, sexual empowerment, and HIV prevention, (Board 1) - 5:15 PM, Dione Geiling (Undergraduate student):
Sexual Education and HPV: Understanding College Students’ Awareness of HPV and Sexual Health (2200.0)
