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2023 Scientific Meeting
Speaker Profiles

Keynote Speakers

Walter Bockting, PhDWalter Bockting, PhD

Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry and Nursing)
Area Leader, Gender, Sexuality, and Health, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Program for the Study of LGBTQ+ Health
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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Title: Identities, intersectionality, and the development of resilience: toward health equity for all

Objectives:

  1. Define intersectionality, and give two examples of its impact on health and health behavior.
  2. Describe health disparities found among sexual and gender minority populations
  3. Name three domains of resilience in the face of minority stress

Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPHSandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH

Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor
Boston University School of Public Health

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Title: Re-imagining prevention, aspiring to global health equity in a post-Covid-19 world

Objectives:

  1. Discuss the foundational principles of prevention and how they may be changing in a post-Covid-19 world.
  2. Consider an alternative vision of prevention, grounded in science, that can aim to promote health in coming decades.
  3. Encourage innovative thinking about prevention approaches in coming decades.

Symposium Speakers

Amani M. Allen, PhD, MPHAmani M. Allen, PhD, MPH

Professor
University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health

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Title: Measurement of Racism, Intersectional Identities, and Validity in Health Equity Research

Objectives:

  1. Define intersectionality theory and describe its role in the measurement of racism.
  2. Discuss the pros and cons of within-group versus comparison studies for validity in epidemiologic studies, particularly those focused on health inequities.
  3. Describe racism as a multilevel construct and the opportunities and challenges associated with an ecological assessment of racism for studying health and social behavior.

Greta Bauer, PhD, MPHGreta Bauer PhD, MPH

Professor
Chair in Sexual Health
Director, Institute for Sexual and Gender Health
University of Minnesota Medical School

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Title: Intersectionality and survey measurement: Beyond identity categories

Objectives:

  1. To understand a social identity as one dimension of a multidimensional construct.
  2. To identify validity issues inherent in using an identity measure as a proxy measure
  3. To explore what adding intersectionality into the science of identities might mean

David Chae, ScD MADavid Chae, ScD, MA

Associate Professor
Director, Society, Health and Racial Equity (SHARE) Lab
Associate Dean for Research
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

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Title: Racism and the Unjust Population-Level Distribution of Disease: Mechanisms of Racial Inequities in Health

Objectives:

  1. Identify the social determinants of racial inequities in health and psychobiological pathways through which racism is embodied.
  2. Recommend anti-racist interventions at multiple ecological levels, including policy implications.

Hannah Cooper, ScDHannah Cooper, ScD

Professor
Rollins Chair in Substance Use Disorder Research
Emory University

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Title: The War on Drugs in Rural Appalachia: Conceptualizing its escalation and analyzing its impacts on Appalachians who use drugs

Objectives:

  1. To understand the shifting geography of the War on Drugs in the US.
  2. To consider different ways to conceptualize the escalation of the War on Drugs in a predominately White rural area.
  3. To understand the possible impacts of this escalation for the health of Appalachians who use drugs.

Shari L. Dworkin, PhD, MSShari L. Dworkin, PhD, MS

Professor
University of Washington Bothell

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Title: Intersectionality, Heterosexually-Active Men and HIV: Reflections from the Field

Objectives:

  1. To assess the extent to which intersectionality as a framework has been applied to an understanding of heterosexually-active men in the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
  2. To identify several innovations that an intersectional analysis provided across 3 previous domestic and global HIV studies.
  3. To make recommendations for next steps for those researchers who wish to use intersectionality as a theory or method in their health-related work.

Jesus Ramirez-Valles, PhD, MPHJesus Ramirez-Valles, PhD, MPH

Professor
Chief, Division of Prevention Science
University of California San Francisco

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Title: Queer Aging - At the Intersection of Age, Sexuality, and Racism

Objectives:

  1. Describe the application of life course perspective in the context of gender and sexuality.
  2. Compare and contrast the life course perspective and aging experience of gay men across racialized groups.

Nancy Schoenberg, PhDNancy Schoenberg, PhD

Marion Pearsall Professor of Behavioral Science
Director, Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET)
University of Kentucky

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Title: Advancing health equity among rural residents through translational health behavior research

Objectives:

  1. Define and describe health challenges in rural contexts.
  2. Improve your understanding of cultural adaptation of evidence-based interventions.
  3. Describe translational behavioral approaches to mitigate such inequities, including community-based interventions.

Stella Yi, MPH, PhDStella Yi, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor
NYU School of Medicine

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Title: Tackling systems change to improve health and data equity for immigrant families and racial/ethnic minorities

Objectives:

  1. Describe the formative process behind the development of multi-sector and collaborative initiatives driven by community preferences, data and partner input/assets.
  2. Recognize the equivalent role of community members, community partners, government and/or academia to drive forward structural change.

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