2009 OPHA Annual Conference & Meeting

Presentations:

Monday, October 26, 2009 

The State of Public Health in the State 

Mel Kohn, MD, MPH Acting Public Health Director and State Health Officer 
Oregon State Public Health Division, Department of Human Services 

Child Care and the Health of Oregon Children 

1. Improving the health and safety of children in Oregon’s child care: An evaluation of the Oregon Child Care Health Consultation demonstration program Jin Song, Dianna Pickett, Steve Rider, Rachel Atwater, Cate Wilcox, and Katherine Bradley 

2. Child Health Outcomes related to Childcare Arrangements for Oregon Two-Year Olds from a Population-Based 2007 Survey Dianna Pickett, Kenneth D. Rosenberg, Cate Wilcox, Alfredo P. Sandoval and Jin Song 

Issues in Water Quality and Resources 

1. Drinking Water 101 Karen Kelley and Dave Leland 

2. Funding water and wastewater infrastructure in rural Oregon: Leadership strategies to close the needs/resources gap 
Rosa Sepulveda Klein 

 

Systems for Chronic Disease Management and Primary Care Delivery 

1. Chronic Disease Self-Management: Building a Sustainable Statewide System for Program ImplementationSarah Bartelmann, Cara Biddlecom and Jennifer Mead 

2. A Public Health approach to Primary Care: Strategies for organizing a system to be responsive to the needs of the population Mindy Stadtlander and Frances Conedera 

 

Prevention and Management of Diabetes in Tribal Communities 

1. Tobacco and Diabetes Program Integration in Oregon’s Tribal Communities Kerri Lopez, Megan Hoopes, Shane Lopez-Johnston, and Katrina Ramsey 

2. Perceived Medical Discrimination, Medical Utilization and Diabetes Management among Northwest American Indian Women Kelly L. Gonzales, Anna Harding, and William Lambert 

 

Why Don’t Kids Eat School Lunch and Breakfast?: A Youth Action Research Project 

Jennifer Young and students from Roosevelt High School: Matt Cha, Alan Govea, Luis Govea, Elizabeth Jimenz-Lopez, Komal Singh and Matthew Wilkins 

 

Climate Change and Public Health 

Philip Mote, PhD 
Director Oregon Climate Change Research Institute & Oregon Climate Services College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences 
Oregon State University 

 

Child Health and Nutrition 

1. Assessing Child Care Centers for Polices and Practices Regarding Nutrition, Physical Activity, Breastfeeding Accommodation and Screen Time Helen Bellanca and Stewart Trost 

2. Eco-Healthy Child Care: Nutrition, Food & Avoiding Toxins Exposures in Young Children Jenny Pompilio 

3. Using the roundtable process to build capacity around a public health issue: health in the SNAP population Rachel E. Burdon 

 

Crossroads: Public Health and the Environment 

1. How to Assess and Influence the Health Impact of Climate Change Transportation Policy John MacArthur and Noelle Dobson 

2.Hazardous Incident Tracking 101 – State Programs Tracking Local Environmental Hazards Curtis Cude, Laura Boswell, Jennifer Ketterman, Brett Sherry and Justin Waltz 

3. Introducing the CDCs National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network Curtis Cude and Nancy Goff 

 

Healthy Eating at Farmers’ Markets: Innovative Programs from Three Oregon Farmers’ Markets 

Healthy Eating at Farmers’ Markets: The Impact of Nutrition Incentive Campaigns Amy Gilroy, Eliza Davenport, Sarah Hackney and Jackie Hammond-Williams 

 

Collaborative Partnerships in Public Health Efforts 

1. Using Technology to Promote Participant Centered Services: A Collaboration between the Oregon and Arizona WIC Programs Adrienne Paige Mullock 

2. Food Deserts in the Rural Northwest: Addressing Food Insecurity in Klickitat County Washington through Community Food Assessment and Developing Partnerships with Local Citizens—Implications for Food Insecure Communities throughout the Pacific Northwest Lauren Fein, Meghann Dallin, and Sarah Hackney 

 

Safe and Interactive Health-Focused Learning Using the Dialogue Education Approach Facilitator Debra Minar Driscoll

 

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Take Two Steps: Opportunities to Prevent Inequities in Health and Safety 

Virginia Lee, MPH, CHES Program Manager, Prevention Institute 
Oakland, California 

 

Immunization: Trends and Emerging Issues 

1. The cost of revaccination campaigns: when clinics use sub-potent vaccines to immunize their patients Scott Jeffries and Susan Weiner 

2. Childhood Immunization Trends in Oregon Samantha K. Kurosky, Steve G. Robison and Collette Young 

3. Effects of Parental Concern about Immunizations on Child’s Immunization Status Samantha K. Kurosky, Kenneth D. Rosenberg and Collette Young 

 

The Intersection of Public Health and the Built Environment 

1. Obesity Prevention Toolkit for Healthy Neighborhoods. Heidi Hascall, Laurie Treiger and James P. Sleeger 

2. Developing built environment indicators for urban Oregon Dan Rubado and Nancy M. Goff 

 

Innovations in Assessment and Management of Obesity and Chronic Diseases 

1. Participant Retention in a Lifestyle Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes: Improving Control with Activity and Nutrition (ICAN) Viktor E. Bovbjerg, Nisha D. Botchwey, Jayne Q. Crowther and Anne M. Wolf 

2. Using driver's license data for population-based BMI assessment Daniel Morris, Ying Han and Stacey Schubert 

3. Menu Labeling and Hospitals: A Case Study of Voluntary Implementation Craig Mosbaek, Kathy Pickle, Adriana Voss-Andreae, Cat Livingston and Myde Boles 

 

Public Health and the Media 

1. How You Say It Matters: A Guide to Creating Professional and Accessible Publications Robert Boy and Amy Cline 

2. Health Status, News Portrayal and the Mission of Public Health: Implications for Public Health Branding Maria Gilson Sistrom, Chris Palmedo and Liana Winett 

3. Only in (YOUR TOWN HERE): Exploring regional public health idiosyncrasies as reported in the daily newspaper Chris Palmedo and Maria Sistrom 

 

Trends in Aging

Karen Hooker, PhD 
Director, Center for Healthy Aging Research Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences 
Oregon State University 

 

Teen Health: Current Issues 

1. Gasping for Air: Choking Game Participation among Oregon Youth Sarah Ramowski 

2. Parent Perspectives on Teen Sexual Health: Survey Results from Woodburn, Oregon Ann Krier 

 

Veterinary Public Health 

1. Zoonoses: the risk for veterinarians Jennifer J. Jackson and Aurora Villarroel 

2. Veterinary Public Health Tom Eversole 

 

Public Health and Tobacco 

1. Tobacco marketing in Oregon and Implications of FDA Tobacco Regulations Kylie Menagh 

2. Building Partnerships for Healthier College Campuses: Tobacco-Free, (PDF Hand-out) Andrew Epstein and Stephanie Young-Peterson

 

Obesity and Screen Time 

Obesity/Child Care/Screen time: What are the Connections? Wendy Rankin, Jean Rystrom, Anne Rothert and Rachel Altmann 

 

Obesity in Children  

1. Obesity Prevention though Theatre Arts Molly Haynes and Marcella Crowson 

2. Measuring Children's Physical Activity and Food Environments in Community Based Participatory Research Deb Johnson-Shelton, Geraldine Moreno-Black, David Richey, Shawn Boles, Jason Blair and Rachel Jensen 

 

Outreach to the Latino Community 

1. Galvanizing Communities to End Childhood Obesity Marcela Arredondo and Laura Raymond 

2. Voceros de Salud: Building a Latino Outreach and Civic Engagement Initiative in Benton County, Oregon Rocio Munoz, Kelly Volkmann and Daniel Lopez-Cevallos 

3. Passing on Strengths: Marketing the Latina Paradox Julie M. McFarlane, Cate Wilcox and Lesa Dixon-Gray 

 

Workshop: Taking Two Steps with the Community Health Factors 

Facilitators: Virginia Lee and Erica Valdovinos 

 

Cancer Prevention in Oregon 

1. Collaboration and Partnership in Oregon’s Cancer Control Efforts Alissa Green, Gail Brownmiller, Sabrina Freewyn, Sara Beth Weiner-Collier, Clara Welsh and Elvin Yuen 

2. Increasing Mammography Screening for Women with Disabilities in Oregon Angela Weaver

 

2009 Poster Session

Student Posters:

GIS Analysis of Nitrate in Oregon Domestic Wells: Capturing Exposure through Innovative Drinking Water Policy Brenda Hoppe 

Among unintended pregnancies, are unwanted pregnancies fundamentally different from mistimed pregnancies?: The case of breastfeeding Kaaren A Nelson-Munson, Kenneth D. Rosenberg, MD, MPH, Rochelle Fu, PhD, and Elizabeth Adams, PhD, RD 

Community Participation in Food Aid and Nutrition Policy and Programs Jamie Petts and Echo Domingues 

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Consumption of Soda and Other Sugar Sweetened Beverages among Two Year Old Children: Findings from a Population-Based Survey Bernice H. Raveche and Kenneth D. Rosenberg 

Lesbian Health Disparities: Reviewing the Literature, and Developing Theory Driven Solutions Jennifer M. Jabson, MPH 

Breast & Cervical Cancer Screening among Hmong: Social, Cultural & System Factors Jennifer Kue, PhD Candidate; Sheryl Thorburn, PhD, MPH; Karen Levy Keon, MPH 

What Started Your Labor? Responses from Mothers in the Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition Cohort Marit L. Bovbjerg, MS; Kelly R. Evenson, PhD; Chyrise Bradley, MA; John M. Thorp, Jr., MD 

Urban Agriculture as a Multi-modal Method of Health Promotion Kurt Beil, ND, MSOM, MPHc, Rachelle Katter, MPH 

Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Homeless Youth with a History of Child Sexual Abuse: A Review of the Literature Megan Cahn 

Environmental Equity: Community Health Assessment Pilot Study in La Pita, Nicaragua Russell S. Barlow, Kristopher M Coontz, Mimi R. Sroat 

H1N1 Influenza Readiness Among (Selected) Native American Tribes of the Pacific Northwest DJ Brumby, DVM; Thomas Weiser, MD, MPH 

Where to deliver: An analysis of factors influencing the choice of birthplace for mothers in West Java, Indonesia. Christian Laugen, Peter Heywood, PhD 

 

Other Posters: 

Increasing Academic Public Health Capacity at OSU Tom Eversole 

Risk of food insecurity in mothers of children with special health care needs Curran M, Adams E, Rosenberg KD, Peters D

Smoking Cessation and Postpartum Depression Two Years After Live Birth: Analysis of Oregon PRAMS-2 Data, 2006 Priya Srikanth, MPH, Kenneth D. Rosenberg, MD, MPH, Jodi Lapidus, PhD, Elizabeth Adams, PhD, RD 

Impact of a Summer Research Training Institute for American Indian and Alaska Native Health Professionals Tosha Zaback, MPH, Thomas M. Becker MD, PhD, William E. Lambert, PhD, Luella Azule, BS, Jessica Kennedy, BS, Nichole Hildebrandt, BS, Jodi Lapidus, PhD, Victoria Warren-Mears, PhD, RD, Thomas Weiser, MD, MPH 

Improving WIC Services in Remote Areas of Oregon by Connecting WIC Satellite Clinics to the Internet Kimberly Word, MPH 

Using a County/City Partnership to Plan and Operate a Drive-Through Point-of-Dispensing (POD) Exercise/Flu Clinic Kathy Thompson RN, Larry McDaniels, BA 

Study of Herpes Zoster in Children Sheila Weinmann, PhD, Colleen Chun, MD, Karen Riedlinger, MPH ASCP, Michelle Roberts, MSN, FNP, Mary Rix, RN, Scott Schmid, PhD – CDC, Meredith Reynolds, PhD - CDC 

Creating Eco-Healthy Schools Renee Hackenmiller-Paradis 

Oregon Health Go Local’s Year in Retrospect. How the resource was conceived, born, and continues to grow. Emily Ford 

The Effects of Homogeneous Neighborhoods on STIs Lauren Collins, Allison Hurlbut 

Using What Works: Partnering to Move Evidence-Based Cancer Control into the Field Alissa Green, Katherine Briant, Stacy Kelley, Sharlynn Rima 

Integrating Problem Gambling into Oregon Public Health Outreach Yvonne Kays