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Public Health AmeriCorps at APHA 2024

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Public Health AmeriCorps sessions at APHA 2024

National Team:

Say Hey Lounge: AmeriCorps Meet Up

Muneera Hassan1, Kyle Brees2, Katie Byerly1, Dr. Aretha Costley1

(1)Public Health AmeriCorps, Washington, DC, (2)AmeriCorps Office of Research and Evaluation, Washington, DC

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

8:00 AM – 10:30 AM

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

Muneera Hassan1, Kyle Brees2, Lyndie Kenlon3, Peter Nelson4

(1)Public Health AmeriCorps, Washington, DC, (2)AmeriCorps Office of Research and Evaluation, Washington, DC, (3)Trailhead Institute, Denver, CO, (4)ServeMinnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

2:30-4p

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

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

Emily Killian, MPH, CPH1, Miranda Fisher2, Nicholas Ostrem1, Brigid Smith1, Tiffany Wunderlich1, Maria Donohoe, MPH1 and Sato Ashida, PhD1
(1)University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, IA, (2)Des Moines University, Iowa City, IA

Monday, October 28, 2024

12:30 PM – 1:30 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)

Sara Suisman, MPH
Indiana Public Health Association, Indianapolis, IN

Monday, October 28, 2024

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

4128.0 – Innovations in Minnesota with Implications for Public Health Practice Nationally (Roundtable)

Jonathon Leider, PhD1, Kari Oldfield-Tabbert2 and Rebecca Wurtz, MD, MPH3
(1)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, (2)Local Public Health Association, St. Paul, MN, (3)Chicago, IL

4128.0: Movers and shakers in MN: Public health corps in action I

Lisa Brodsky
Scott County, MN

4128.0: Public health americorps: A state agency’s story

Becky Sechrist
St. Paul, MN

4128.0: Integrating public health americorps in the workplace to build local capacity

Sarah Tummala
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

4128.0: Movers and shakers in MN: Public health corps in action II

Anne Graves, MHI, RN, PHN, CIC
St. Louis County Public Health, Duluth, MN

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

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

Tisha Nickenig, MPH1, Shetal Datta, MPH1, Connor Lightcap, MPH1, Sherrie Costello1 and Leslie Lieberman, MPH2

(1)The Health Federation of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, (2)Health Federation of Philadlephia, Philadelphia, PA

Abstract

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

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

Navkiran Shokar, MA, MD, MPH1, Jessica Calderon-Mora, DrPH, MPH, MCHES2, Cynthia Chacon, MPH1, Ananya Bharadwaj3 and Frances Cates3

(1)The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School, Austin, TX, (2)UT Austin Dell Medical School, El Paso, TX, (3)The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

CHW Section Poster Session 2

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

5098.0 – Academic-Practice Linkages to Support Governmental Public Health Pathways

5098.0 Public health americorps: Three examples of building public health capacity

Chelsey Kirkland, PhD, MPH, CHW1, Bethany Backes2, Alana Stimes3, Ben Suker4, Jill Messing5, Jonathon Leider, PhD1, Peter Nelson4 and Marina Jessop5
(1)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, (2)University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, (3)Ampact, Minneapolis, MN, (4)ServeMinnesota, Minneapolis, MN, (5)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

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