Join Us!

This year's pre-conference meeting for the 146th APHA Annual Meeting will take place on

November 10, 2018 from at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront in San Diego, CA!

This year our meeting is a collaboration between the Black Caucus of Health Workers (BCHW), Black Ladies in Public Health (BLiPH) & the Society of African American Public Health Issues (SAAPHI).

The theme of the pre-conference meeting is "Living History: Honoring our Past, Uplifting our Future."

We invite you to join us for a dynamic meeting designed to increase understanding of strategies and opportunities aimed at creating and implementing policies to promote health throughout the African Diaspora.

Lunch is included with registration.

OUR TEAM

DrHood - Marketing - Saaphi PreConferenc

NOVEMBER 10, 2018 | 8 AM | SAN DIEGO, CA

PROGRAM

8:30 AM Registration

9:00 AM Welcome

Black Caucus of Health Workers

Black Ladies in Public Health

Society for the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues

9:15 AM Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rodney G. Hood

10:00 AM APHA Panel

Navigating Racism in Public Health

Places & Space

11:00 AM SAAPHI Scientific Poster Session

Lunch

12:30 PM SAAPHI Scientific Symposium

1:30 PM #ForHealth Panel

Advocacy, Tech & Public Health

3:00 PM Awards & Closing Remarks

4:00 PM SAAPHI Business Meeting

Darrell Hudson, PhD

Associate Professor, Washington University

Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH

Association Professor, St. Louis University

N. Kauʻi Baumhofer, ScD

Associate Professor, University of Hawai'i

Victor Schoenbach, PhD

Professor Emeritus, UNC

Natalie Bradford, MS

Doctoral Student, UCLA

MODERATORS

PANELIST

Marino A. Bruce, PhD

Research Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University

This hour-long session is designed to be an interactive session with a diverse panel of contributors who have chapters in the upcoming APHA volume, Is it Race or Racism?: State of the Evidence and Tools for the Public Health Professional.

This panel will focus on: 1) strategies to help public health professionals navigate the politics of race and racism in public health, 2) how to create safe spaces for open dialogue and advocacy for policy and institutional change to focus on health equity work.

2018 Conference - TechPanel - Resized.pn

#FORHEALTH: Leveraging Technology to Achieve Health Equity". This is where public health meets technology in the 21st Century! Black Ladies in Public Health brings together public health techpreneurs/innovators to show us how to leverage technology to achieve health equity.