Join Us at the 2018 Population Health Conference: Day 3

Today we’re live at Day 3, the last day of our 2018 conference, “Pushing the Boundaries of Population Health Science: Social Inequalities, Biological Processes, and Policy Implications,” in Washington DC.

Stop by and say hello. If you can’t make it in person, follow us on Facebook and Twitter @ia4phs and the conference hashtag, #pophealth2018.

8:00 am: IAPHS Membership Meeting, Auditorium. See the agenda here. 

9:15 am Keynote #3: “Technological Innovations and Population Health…Friends, Foes, or Both?”
Follow Joshua Denny (@jdnashville), Anthony Iton (@dr_tonyiton), Alfredo Morabia (@AlfredoMorabia), Ebony Boulware (@ebonyboulware)

10:45 am Concurrent sessions

• “Looking Forward: A Population Research and Policy Agenda”
  Follow Ana Diez Roux (@adiezroux)
• “Income Support, Tax, and Labor Policy Impacts Health Outcomes”
  Follow Anuj Gangopadhyaya (@agangopadhyaya)
• “Digital Skills and Connectivity as Social Determinants of Health”
  Follow Adam Perzynski (@ATPerzynski), Courtney Lyles (@CourtneyRLyles)
• “Police Contact as a Social Determinant of Health”
  Follow Abigail Sewell (@aasewell)
• “House and Home (and Health)”
  Follow Theresa Osypuk (@tosypuk), Danya Keene (@danyakeene)
• “Contextualizing Sexual Minority Health Disparities”
  Follow Gilbert Gonzales @GilbGonzales

1:30 pm Concurrent sessions

• “Life Course and Contemporary Exposure to Adverse Enviornments and Physiological Stress During Adolescence”
• “Mortality in the United States: Progress and Retreat”
  Follow Neil Mehta (@Neil_Mehta), Patrick Krueger (@pmkrueger)
• “Population Health Science: NIH Goals and Challenges”
  Follow Yonette Thomas (@yonettefthomas), George Mensah (@NHLBI_Translate)
• “Advances n Understanding Health Outcomes through Network Analysis”
  Follow Ashton Verdery (@AVerdery), Jason Fletcher (@Prof_Fletcher)
• “The Role and Application of Agent-Based Modeling in Evaluating the Multi-Level Impact of Population Health Interventions”
  Follow Stacy Tessler Lindau (@stacylindau)
• “The Digital Revolution and Interdisciplinary Population Health Research”
  Follow Courtney Cogburn (@CourtneyCogburn), Brent Cebul (@brentcebul)

3:00 Concurrent sessions

• “What is it Good For? Using Epigenetics to Understand Health Disparities”
  Follow Darlene Kertes (@DrDarleneKertes), Chantel Martin (@iamchantelphd), David Rehkopf (@drehkopf)
• “The Zika Virus: A Population Health Perspective”
• “Debt and Health Disparities in the United States”
  Follow Jason Houle (@jnhoule), Katrina Walsemann (@kat_walsemann)
• “Cannabis Legalization in the Americas”
  Follow Beau Kilmer (@BeauKilmer)
• “Biological Consequences of Social Stratification on Population Health”
  Follow Noah Snyder-Mackler (@SMack_Lab), Grace Noppert (@gracenoppert)
• “Aligning Health and Social Systems to Improve Population Health”
  Follow Glen Mays (@glenmays)

4:15 Meeting adjourned. See you next year in Seattle!

The 2018 conference is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Academy of Medicine Roundtable for Population Health Improvement, the Department of Health Policy and Management at George Washington University,  RWJF Health Policy Research Scholars Program,   Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Colorado University Population Center, Public Health National Center for Innovations, and the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB).