North Carolina Public Health Association’s 2013 Fall Educational Conference in Asheville
(http://ncpha.memberclicks.net/)
1) Bass Connections:
Presenter: Lillie Reed, Exploring Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence
in Durham’s Immigrant Latino Community to Inform Intervention Development
Authors: Lillie Reed, Kristen Sullivan, PhD, MSW, Morgan Barlow, MPH,
Karmel Wong (Duke psychology PhD student)
2) Student Research Training Program:
Presenter: Rebecca Cray, poster session, Evaluation of Student Action with
Farmworkers ³Into the Fields² Theater Program
Authors: Rebecca Cray, Erin Leyson, and Kristen Sullivan, PhD, MSW
3) Presenter: Alice Pollard (CHPIR NC-LINK & Guide to Healing MSW/MPH
Intern, UNC student whose MSW/MPH internship I supervised this summer),
Retaining and Re-Engaging Patients in HIV Care in NC HIV Clinics: An
Assessment of Efforts in NC HIV Clinics
Authors: Alice Pollard, MSW, MPH, Miriam Berger, MPH, Kristen Sullivan,
PhD, MSW, Byrd Quinlivan, MD, and Jacquelyn Clymore, MS
ANNUAL CONFERENCE: MAY 14-16, 2014
APPCNC will host its Annual Conference on May 14-16, 2014 at the Embassy Suites Greensboro in Greensboro, NC.
Request for Proposals
We are now accepting proposals for our 2014 statewide conference. The conference attracts approximately 200 professionals each year from North Carolina and beyond. We are seeking workshop presenters on a broad range of topics related to adolescent pregnancy prevention, adolescent parenting, and reproductive health. Conference participants will be interested in workshops that offer concrete ideas, methods, and resources that they can incorporate into their own work.
Contact Melinda DeJongh for more information.
Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell, assistant research professor of global health in the Duke Global Health Institute and the Duke Center for Health Policy & Inequalities Research, has been awarded a five-year $2.48 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to test an integrated model of alcohol treatment for patients with hepatitis C. The integrated model includes brief alcohol counseling from the patient’s hepatologist, collaboration between hepatologists and addictions therapists co-located in the liver clinic, and six months of individual and group therapy primarily focusing on alcohol use and liver health. This integrated model will be compared against brief alcohol counseling from the patient’s hepatologist and referral to the Duke Addictions Program. The study will occur in three clinics: the Duke Liver Clinic, the UNC Liver Clinic, and the Durham VA Liver Clinic.