Date: November 12-15, 2023
Location: Georgia World Congress Center
285 Andrew Young International Blvd NW, Atlanta GA

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Community Engagement Alliance’s (CEAL) regional teams and programs are excited to showcase their work at the 2023 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting & Expo. Over 30 presentations and events focused on CEAL's success, lessons learned, and promising practices will take place throughout the conference. If you are attending APHA, plan to connect with NIH CEAL by:

• attending a CEAL session or presentation.
• visiting us in the exhibit hall at booth #124.
• Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn and join the online conversation using the hashtags #NIHCEAL and #APHA2023.

More Event Details

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Sunday, November 12

1:00 p.m. - Exploring Intimate Partner Violence among Young Adult, Latino Sexual Minority Men: A Qualitative Study. Florida CEAL (Poster)
1:00 p.m. - Farmworkers later years: Morbidity and mortality. Florida CEAL (Poster)
2:30 p.m. - Association between social vulnerability and findings of Georgia community-engaged alliance against COVID-19 disparities community-based surveys. Georgia CEAL
2:30 p.m. - Experiences of young adult scholars engaging in community service-learning to promote the young adults want to know health education webinar series. Mississippi CEAL
2:45 p.m. - Evaluation to foster sustainability of a rapid partnership: Evaluation of Michigan communities conquering COVID. Michigan CEAL (Oral)
3:00 p.m. - The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on inequities in hypertension and diabetes management, and low birth weight among federally qualified health center patients. NCPCR(Morehouse School of Medicine)
3:00 p.m. - Disproving the absent father fallacy: Engaging African-American fathers and men in preconception counseling. MH-CIP
3:00 p.m. - A history informed message design to improve trust in clinical trials among black people in NC. North Carolina CEAL
4:30 p.m. - Trusted and culturally relevant COVID-19 and long-COVID public health messages developed using participatory methods. Arizona CEAL
4:30 p.m. - Setting up a health information monitoring and response system. Missouri CEAL (Panel)
5:00 p.m. - Setting up a health information monitoring and response system. Missouri CEAL
5:15 p.m. - “Come for the food, stay for the healthcare”: Leveraging chicagoland food pantries as sustainable health screening opportunities. Illinois CEAL (Panel)

Monday, November 13

8:45 a.m. - Challenges and facilitators of a community engaged approach for the development of a culturally and linguistically appropriate cancer pain management program for Spanish-speaking populations. North Carolina CEAL
12:30 a.m. - Elevating the voice of the community: Community expert panel experience for the community engagement alliance consultative resource(CEACR).
12:30 p.m. - The evaluation of the community engagement alliance consultative resource (CEACR) through a process metrics and impact model.
12:30 p.m. - Novel solutions for improving community partner compensation-a direct impact from the community engagement alliance consultative resource (CEACR) CEACR / Texas CEAL
12:30 p.m. - Evaluating cultural adaptations to a CBPR model for the weave NM CEAL project.New Mexico CEAL
12:30 p.m. - Examining health insurance and challenges among Vietnamese Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic through CEAL survey. Texas CEAL
12:30 p.m. - Association between chronic diseases and long COVID: Results from the Puerto Rico COVID-19 assessment study (PR-COAS) – Puerto Rico CEAL (Poster)
2:30 p.m. - Evaluating the life-impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on low-income older adults through a digital equity initiative. Missouri CEAL (Poster)
2:30 p.m. - Sources of inaccurate versus accurate health information: Results from iheard weekly community-engaged surveys. Missouri CEAL (Poster)
3:15 p.m. - An evaluation of financial incentives and social service provision with community-based COVID-19 vaccination. Illinois CEAL

Tuesday, November 14

8:30 a.m. - Healthcare access and experiences of racial discrimination as predictors of general vaccine hesitancy. Arkansas CEAL (Oral)
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - CEAL Symposium: Promoting Health Equity Through Community Interventions: Promising Practices from NIH’s Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL)
8:35 a.m. - American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Enrichment Initiative: National Institutes of Health's commitment to indigenous communities. NIH CEAL
9:00 a.m. - Georgia CEAL's approach on engaging faith leaders as trusted messengers to combat COVID-19. Georgia CEAL
10:30 a.m. - Perceived barriers and opportunities to participate in clinical trials related to COVID-19 among Black and Latinx communities in the United States. North Carolina CEAL
12:30 p.m. - CEAL survey: Vietnamese American health insurance coverage and challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Texas CEAL
12:30 p.m. - Qualitative study Examining barriers and facilitators of COVID-19 vaccination in Vietnamese American youth. Texas CEAL (Poster)
2:45 p.m. - CEAL survey Examining Vietnamese Americans’ level of trust in sources of information and willingness to participate in COVID-19 clinical trials. Texas CEAL
3:15 p.m. - The Mississippi COVID-19 vaccine confidence survey: A population-level analysis. Mississippi CEAL
4:30 p.m. - Using process flow diagrams to identify pain points in the delivery of outpatient care for birthing people experiencing severe pregnancy-related hypertension. MH-CIP

Wednesday, November 15

8:30 a.m. - Leveraging the Power of Communities in Public Health Crises: A Sustainable Model for Health Equity. American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) Sponsored Session
8:30 a.m. - Lessons Learned from the Pilot Family Model of Diabetes Self-Management Intervention in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Arkansas CEAL (Oral)
8:30 a.m. - Trustworthiness, not trust: How systemic racism impacts individual COVID-19 vaccine receipt. Illinois CEAL
8:30 a.m. - Developing capacity for clinical research recruitment in the NCPCR-OCHIN network of community health centers. NCPCR (OCHIN)
8:35 a.m. - Institutional trust and COVID-19 vaccine/testing uptake among American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) communities in inland southern California. California CEAL
9:05 a.m. - A community-focused COVID-19 vaccine health promotion campaign: Lessons from the community translation experience with the Denver urban American Indian/Alaska Native (AIANs) COVID-19 workgroup from 2021-2023. Colorado CEAL
9:15 a.m. - Identifying common factors of COVID-19 information sources and their association with COVID-19 vaccination in Texas. Texas CEAL (Oral)
10:30 a.m. - Qualitative assessment of health equity-focused implementation successes in community health centers (CHC) during the COVID-19 pandemic.NCPCR (Morehouse School of Medicine)
10:30 a.m. - Prevalence and factors associated with Long COVID in Puerto Rico: Results from the Puerto Rico COVID-19 Assessment Study (PR-COAS). Puerto Rico CEAL (Oral)
10:45 a.m. - Case study of a research and data capacity building initiative co-developed with and for community-based organizations.Illinois CEAL
11:00 a.m. - Prevalence and factors associated with Long COVID in Puerto Rico: Results from the Puerto Rico COVID-19 Assessment Study (PR-COAS)
11:15 a.m. - Associations between trusted messengers’ rural residence and their COVID-19 attitudes and practices: Evidence from the Louisiana community engagement alliance against COVID-19 disparities Louisiana CEAL