Call for IAPHS 2022 Pre-Conference Workshops

IAPHS will offer pre-conference workshops in connection with the 2022 Conference to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 20-23, 2022. Workshop will be held Tuesday, September 20^th.

Proposals will be accepted December 1, 2021 – March 4, 2022

Interactive Workshops

Workshops should be designed to engage the audience in a focused learning, skill-oriented interactive experience. For each workshop, some didactic presentation content is acceptable, but the emphasis should be on engaging with the audience and aimed at filling a current gap in knowledge or practice. Case studies, simulation, small group exercises, and sharing of tools and resources is strongly encouraged. Workshops will be held in 2 hour or 4-hour time blocks. Proposals will be solicited from the IAPHS membership and reviewed by the Professional Development Committee, in conjunction with the Program Committee Chairs.

Criteria for Workshop Proposals:

Content: The content of the workshop should be relevant to either one or more of the conference topics or fit within the mission of IAPHS. There should be clear learning objectives listed as part of the submitted proposal.

- Priority will be given to workshops that have potential to advance the impact of interdisciplinary IAPHS research and translation in concordance with the mission of IAPHS, supports and provides additional educational support to advance a new and novel interdisciplinary approach or topic, addresses an ongoing training gap or challenge within IAPHS.

Structure: The structure of the workshop session should be designed to include elements of didactic and interactive learning methods that provide a high-quality learning experience for the attendees. The workshop should be organized to successfully achieve its learning objectives.

Impact: The attendees of the workshop should have gained knowledge, skills, or experiences that they can practically apply at their home institutions. Thus, the workshop should explicitly describe how the listed learning objective will be translated into “take-homes” for attendees.

Faculty: The proposal should describe the qualifications of the faculty/facilitators to lead the workshop session (i.e. their involvement in the implementation or research in a given topic should be described as part of their biographic data).

Thank you for participating in the IAPHS 2021 Pre-Conference Workshops!

Clear communication of race and ethnicity for public health: Best practices & common failings

September 23, 2021
12:00 – 4:00 PM (Eastern Time)

Target Audience: Individuals engaged in population health research that incorporates race or ethnicity.

This workshop will help participants of all training levels (pre-, postdoctoral, faculty, clinicians, researchers) develop skills to thoughtfully communicate the use of race and ethnicity in their work. We will highlight current cross-disciplinary practices in how race and ethnicity are communicated in published manuscripts, common poor practices (i.e., ambiguous or outright harmful language), “best practices”, and the changes participants can make in their own scholarship. Given important geographical, historical, and sociopolitical factors of this work, this workshop will be centered in a US context. Read more

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

(1) Identify the harms of biological determinism and the ways in which language used by researchers reflects and perpetuates those ideas.
(2) Understand how to effectively communicate the definitions, coding, and measurement of race and ethnicity in their health scholarship.
(3) Identify ambiguous language surrounding scientific communication of definitions, coding, and measurement of race and ethnicity health scholarship.
(4) Thoughtfully critique and provide feedback on conceptualization, measurement, analysis, and interpretation for race and ethnicity in the peer review process.

Workshop Instructors

Co-Chair

Rae Anne M. Martinez, MSPH
Department of Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill

BIO

Rae Anne Martinez is currently an Epidemiology PhD student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Martinez is broadly interested in how the built environment and social interactions are embodied through biological processes and how this embodiment impacts health across the life course. Specifically, her dissertation research focuses on the embodiment of childhood adversity via the accumulation of epigenetic alternations and links to depression and anxiety in adulthood. She is also interested in exploring historical and contemporary conceptualizations of race and ethnicity in health scholarship and the relationship of these social constructs to health. Her work is currently supported by the Biosocial NIH T32 Training Program at the Carolina Population Center, which emphasizes interdisciplinary training and collaboration in order to foster unique, innovative approaches to public health.

Co-Chair

Nafeesa Andrabi, MA
Department of Sociology, UNC Chapel Hill

Presenter

Andrea N. Goodwin, MA
Department of Sociology, UNC Chapel Hill

Presenter

Natalie R. Smith, MS
Department of Health Policy and Management, UNC Chapel Hill

Presenter

Rachel E. Wilbur, MPH
Department of Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill

BIO

Rachel Wilbur is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, where she previously completed an MPH in Health Behavior and Health Education. Her research explores the effects of social determinants of health, historical, and intergenerational trauma and resilience on contemporary health among Native American and Alaska Native populations. She is of Tolowa and Chetco descent.

Presenter

Paul N. Zivich, MPH
Department of Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill

Advancing Health Equity Methodologies and Approaches

September 30, 2021
12:00 – 4:00 PM (Eastern Time)

Target Audience: The workshop will be open to public health practitioners or scientists in any field whose work involves addressing health inequities or advancing the body of knowledge surrounding inequities.

The increasing focus on health equity research will require projects that develop and evaluate evidence-based solutions to health differences that are driven largely by social, economic, and environmental factors. There is a great need for innovative and solutions-oriented health equity research methodology that can be utilized in research and practice as health equity research and funding opportunities continue to grow. Many existing and emerging methods can advance, monitor, and assess progress toward health equity. Read more

Learning Objectives:

The overall learning objectives of the workshop are to help trainees:

1) Learn the value in changing the epistemology and even ontology of our approaches to health equity research.
2) Become aware of existing and emerging methodology and methods that can be applied through a critical health equity research lens.
3) Learn and practice specific methods that can be applied across a range of disciplines.

Workshop Instructors

Co-Chair

Thomas LaVeist, Dean
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

BIO

Thomas LaVeist is dean of the Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He has an extensive record of publication in scientific journals as well as numerous mass media outlets, and is director and executive producer of “The Skin You’re In,” documentary series about racial inequalities in health. He is also author of six books including “Minority Population and Health: An introduction to health disparities in the United States” (the first text book on health disparities). An award winning research scientist, Dr. LaVeist has received the “Innovation Award” from National Institutes of Health, the “Knowledge Award” from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.

Co-Chair

Andrew Anderson, Assistant Professor
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

BIO

Andrew Anderson, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. His work aims to identify the social, behavioral, and environmental drivers of health outcomes to inform the development of policy that supports high-quality, equitable health care. Prior to Tulane, Andrew was a research scientist and Phyllis Torda health care quality fellow at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and a director of quality measurement at the National Quality Forum (NQF). He is also a former health policy research scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Co-Chair

David Chae, Associate Professor
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

BIO

David Chae is Associate Professor in the Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences, Director of the Society, Health, and Racial Equity (SHARE) Lab, and Associate Dean for Research at Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. His research focuses on the social determinants of health inequities and embodiment of racism. He studies racism as a social-environmental toxin that shapes the inequitable population-level distribution of disease. As part of this work, he examines the interplay between context, developmental period, behavior, and biology, and links to disease susceptibility and progression. In 2019 he was elected to the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the honorary senior scientist society for those whose research is at the interface of behavior and medicine. He is Associate Editor of the journal Health Education & Behavior, on the Editorial Board of Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, and serves on several scientific research groups.

Co-Chair

Katherine Theall, Professor
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

BIO

Katherine P. Theall, PhD, is a Professor at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in the Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology. She is the Director of the Tulane Mary Amelia Center for Women’s Health Equity Research, is Senior Director of the Tulane Violence Prevention Institute, and directs the HRSA-supported Tulane Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Epidemiology Doctoral Training program and the postdoctoral and junior faculty MatCH Program. As a social epidemiologist, her research focuses on reducing health inequities by understanding and altering built and social neighborhood environments and social policies for better health in underserved populations locally, nationally, and internationally. With a strong base in community partnered participatory research aimed at addressing social determinants of health and the processes that shape these determinants, she is involved in research, programming, and translational work for improved health and well-being through an interdisciplinary lens.

Co-Chair and Presenter

Caryn Bell, Assistant Professor
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

BIO

Caryn Bell’s research focuses on the unique impacts of socioeconomic status (SES) and place on cardiovascular disease risk factors in Black Americans and racial disparities. Her work uses varied techniques including spatial statistics and mapping approaches and explores the nuanced ways in which the impacts of SES and place are shaped by structural racism and is associated with obesity and related behaviors in Black women and men. She teaches courses on health equity, racism and health, as well as, place and Black health in the U.S. Prior to joining the faculty at Tulane, she was an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University Maryland, College Park. She received her PhD in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and a BS in Chemistry from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Presenter

Melody Goodman, Associate Dean for Research
New York University School of Global Public Health

BIO

Melody received her B.S. summa cum laude in applied mathematics-statistics and economics (double major) from Stony Brook University. She received her M.S. in biostatistics from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and her Ph.D. from the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University with minors in theoretical statistics and the social determinants of health disparities. She is the Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor of Biostatistics, in the School of Global Public Health at New York University. The National Institutes of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Verizon Foundation, Long Island Community Foundation, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and Susan G. Komen for the Cure have funded her work. She has over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and two books (2018 Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group); 1) Public Health Research Methods for Partnerships and Practice and 2) Biostatistics for Clinical and Public Health Research. Dr. Goodman is a biostatistician and research methodologist with a large statistical toolbox. Her research interest is on identifying origins of health disparities and developing, as necessary, evidence-based primary prevention strategies to reduce these health disparities.

Presenter

Taylor Hargrove, Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

BIO

Dr. Hargrove is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and a faculty fellow at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Her program of research examines how and why social inequalities in health unfold across the life course, focusing on inequalities along racial/ethnic, gender, and skin color lines. Her current program of research integrates biomedical perspectives into the study of health inequality in the US by exploring linkages among socio-geographic contexts, individual-level characteristics, and biological measures of health in early adulthood. The goal of this work is to elucidate how macro-level environments shape the consequences of social statuses on more proximate causes of poor health.

Presenter

Rachael Hardeman, Associate Professor
University of Minnesota School of Public Health

BIO

Rachel R. Hardeman is a tenured Associate Professor in the Division of Health Policy & Management at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, the Blue Cross Endowed Professor in Health and Racial Equity, and the Founding Director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity. A reproductive health equity researcher, she applies the tools of population health science and health services research to elucidate a critical and complex determinant of health inequity—racism. Her overarching goal is to contribute to a body of knowledge that links structural racism to health in a tangible way, identifies opportunities for intervention, and dismantles the systems, structures, and institutions that allow inequities to persist.

Presenter

Tyson H. Brown, Associate Professor
Duke University

BIO

Tyson H. Brown is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University, where he directs the Center on Health & Society. His program of research examines the who, when, and how questions regarding ethnoracial inequalities in health. Dr. Brown is currently working on several projects on conceptualizing, measuring and mapping structural racism, and quantifying its effects on population health. He has authored numerous articles in leading sociology, gerontology and population health journals, and his research contributions have been recognized with awards from the American Sociological Association. In addition, Brown has been awarded funding for his training and research from the Robert Wood Johnson and Ford Foundations as well as the National Institutes of Health.

Presenter

Keon Gilbert, Associate Professor
Saint Louis University

BIO

Dr. Gilbert is currently an Associate Professor at the Saint Louis University School of Public Health in the Division of Behavioral Science/Health Education within the Department of Community Health Sciences. His primary research interests seek to reduce health disparities through research and interventions that will prevent disease and promote healthy behaviors. His work applies quantitative and qualitative methods in areas such as social capital, community capacity, organizational readiness, community based participatory research, and with populations such as African American men. Dr. Gilbert’s key research interests include social capital, health disparities, African American Men’s health, and interventions to prevent chronic diseases. Dr. Gilbert’s work draws on his inter-disciplinary training in Biology, African American Studies, Public Affairs and Public Health to investigate the intersection of racial identity, racial socialization, and structural racism as an important, yet unexplored, social determinant of African American male’s health across the lifecourse.

Policy Mapping: Navigating Your Network

September 9, 2021
12:00 – 1:30 PM (Eastern Time)

Target Audience: Any researcher who wants to use their research to improve public policy.

This network mapping workshop gives scholars the tools to map their policy landscape and create a plan to build relationships with policy stakeholders. Participants will create a “network map” that visualizes the ecosystem of decision-makers and inﬂuencers surrounding the policy issue their research aﬀects. This map allows researchers to identify key players in their networks to begin the process of relationship building with decision-makers. The training also highlights key insights into how and when policymakers use research evidence.

Learning goals:

At the end of the workshop, participants will:

Understand how and when decision-makers use research evidence in the policymaking process
Know practical, research-based tips for engaging with policy actors and building relationships
Have a map of the broad network of policy actors in their area of research and expertise
Have concrete next steps to take to inform the policymaking process with their research and expertise

Workshop Facilitator

Andrew Pope is the Director of Training at the Scholars Strategy Network. In this role, he works closely with staff and leaders from across the network to develop and deploy trainings that empower scholars to achieve SSN’s mission of using research to improve public policy. Andrew has a PhD from the History Department at Harvard University. His academic work explores how ordinary people crossed traditional lines of difference to influence local, state, and national policy. His dissertation, “Living in the Struggle: Black Power, Gay Liberation, & Women’s Liberation Movements in Atlanta, 1964-1996,” examined the activism of poor and working class African Americans after the Civil Rights Act made Jim Crow illegal. Before joining SSN, Andrew was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for African American Urban Studies & the Economy and taught for Harvard University’s Committee on Degrees in History & Literature.

Connecting & Building Relationships

September 9, 2021
3:00 – 4:00 PM (Eastern Time)

Target Audience: Any researcher who wants to use their research to improve public policy.

This training on building relationships gives scholars an introduction to eﬀective strategies to ensure that researcher’s ﬁndings and perspectives inform policy. This session provides evidence-based instructions for how to begin and maintain productive relationships with policymakers, how to engage with civic intermediaries in order to better reach policymakers, and what strategies are critical for creating mutual trust. This session will ensure that scholars have the tools and knowledge to move their research through the policymaking process.

At the end of the workshop, participants will:

Understand the current research findings on how decision-makers use research evidence in the policymaking process
Have practical, evidence-based steps to take when initiating and building a relationship with a policymaker
Leave with a tailored first-contact letter to a policymaker based on their own research and interests

Preconference Workshop

Call for IAPHS 2022 Pre-Conference Workshops

IAPHS will offer pre-conference workshops in connection with the 2022 Conference to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 20-23, 2022. Workshop will be held Tuesday, September 20th.

Interactive Workshops

Criteria for Workshop Proposals:

Thank you for participating in the IAPHS 2021 Pre-Conference Workshops!

Clear communication of race and ethnicity for public health: Best practices & common failings

September 23, 202112:00 – 4:00 PM (Eastern Time)

Target Audience: Individuals engaged in population health research that incorporates race or ethnicity.

Learning Objectives:

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Advancing Health Equity Methodologies and Approaches

September 30, 202112:00 – 4:00 PM (Eastern Time)

Target Audience: The workshop will be open to public health practitioners or scientists in any field whose work involves addressing health inequities or advancing the body of knowledge surrounding inequities.

Learning Objectives:

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Co-Chair and Presenter

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Policy Mapping: Navigating Your Network

September 9, 2021 12:00 – 1:30 PM (Eastern Time)

Target Audience: Any researcher who wants to use their research to improve public policy.

Workshop Facilitator

Connecting & Building Relationships

September 9, 2021 3:00 – 4:00 PM (Eastern Time)

Target Audience: Any researcher who wants to use their research to improve public policy.

Workshop Facilitator

IAPHS will offer pre-conference workshops in connection with the 2022 Conference to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 20-23, 2022. Workshop will be held Tuesday, September 20^th.

September 23, 2021
12:00 – 4:00 PM (Eastern Time)

September 30, 2021
12:00 – 4:00 PM (Eastern Time)

September 9, 2021
12:00 – 1:30 PM (Eastern Time)

September 9, 2021
3:00 – 4:00 PM (Eastern Time)