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Public Health AmeriCorps at APHA 2024

Thank you for attending the Say Hey Lounge: AmeriCorps Meet Up at the 2024 APHA Annual Meeting! Sign up to learn more about AmeriCorps and programs like Public Health AmeriCorps! Completing this form will also enter you in our special swag drawing at 10 a.m. in the Say Hey Lounge!

Public Health AmeriCorps sessions at APHA 2024

Tuesday 8:00-10:30 AM

Say Hey Lounge: AmeriCorps Meet Up.

Tuesday 2:30-4:00 PM

4222.0 Good for Community, Good for Members, Good for the Public Health Workforce: Lessons Learned from Evaluating Public Health Americorps

Tuesday 7:00-10:00 PM

Join us for our 2024 Spooky Student & Early-Career Professionals Social event at Open Book, located at 1011 Washington Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55415. Come dressed in your best costume for mingling with fellow ghouls, monster mash music, thrilling costume contests, prizes, wicked good light bites, poisonous drinks, and more! Advance registration required.

Additional Sessions Related to PHA (listed in order by occurrence)

Monday 12:30-1:30 PM

3170.0 Building a community-wide program delivery infrastructure for an older adult disaster preparedness program: Disaster prepwise public health americorps

Monday 2:30-4:00 PM

3237.0 CoA Best Practices 1: How Apha Affiliates Are Working to Expand and Support a Public Health Workforce
Building public health workforce capacity through affiliate technical assistance and support (3:00 PM – 3:15 PM)

Tuesday 10:30-12:00 PM

4128.0 – Innovations in Minnesota with Implications for Public Health Practice Nationally (Roundtable)
4128.0: Movers and shakers in MN: Public health corps in action I
4128.0: Public health americorps: A state agency’s story
4128.0: Integrating public health americorps in the workplace to build local capacity
4128.0: Movers and shakers in MN: Public health corps in action II

Tuesday 12:30-1:30 PM

4167.0 Addressing structural inequities: An intersectional approach to addressing community health planning (poster)

Tuesday 2:30-3:30

4193.0 Implementation of health promotion education led by community health workers in a comprehensive community-based cancer prevention program (poster)
CHW Section Poster Session 2

Wednesday 12:30-2:00

5098.0 – Academic-Practice Linkages to Support Governmental Public Health Pathways
5098.0 Public health americorps: Three examples of building public health capacity

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