BUSSW Faculty & Doctoral Students Present at 2022 APHA Annual Meeting
Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) will have a strong presence at this year’s APHA Annual Meeting & Expo on Nov. 6-9. In addition to sharing a booth with BU’s School of Public Health, ranked 6th in the nation of public health graduate schools, BUSSW will be represented by faculty and doctoral students whose work lies at the intersection of social work and public health. Their sessions cover a wide range of topics, from behavioral health to stigma, cannabis use, and public health social work approaches to meeting the Grand Challenges of Social Work. Several focus on particular populations: aging adults, gay Latino sexual assault survivors, refugees with disabilities, Black gay men, and young people trapped in the cradle-to-prison pipeline in the Massachusetts juvenile legal system.
Browse the schedule below to find out who’s presenting their research and when.
Sunday, Nov. 6
1:00-2:00pm | Poster Session: Best Practices in Aging and Public Health
“Enhancing Behavioral Health & Aging Competencies: Workforce Development for Senior Center Staff”
Presenter: Corinne Beaugard, doctoral candidate
Authors: Corinne Beaugard; Bronwyn Keefe, research assistant professor, assistant dean of workforce and professional development, and director of CADER and The Network for Professional Education; and Jennifer L. Tripken
1:00-2:00pm | Poster Session: Advance Care Planning‚ Palliative Care‚ and End-of-life Issues
“Interprofessional Palliative Care Team Members’ Perceptions of Palliative Social Workers’ Roles and Contributions to Patient Centered Collaborative Practice in Hospital Settings”
Presenters: Arden O’Donnell, doctoral candidate; Megan Nizza, doctoral student; and Judith Gonyea, professor
2:30-3:30pm | Poster Session: New and Emerging Issues in Latina/o/x Health
“Considerations for Medical Care Providers to Enhance Service Provision for Gay Latino Sexual Assault Survivors”
Presenter: Daniel Jacobson López, assistant professor
4:30-6:30pm | Program: Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health
“Barriers and Enablers of Health Among Immigrant, Refugee and Forcibly Displaced Communities”
Presenter: Cristina Araujo Brinkerhoff, doctoral candidate
Monday, Nov. 7
10:30am–12:00pm | Roundtable: COVID-19 is Still Here!
“Community Organization Strategies for COVID-19 Vaccination for Immigrant Communities“
Presenter: Cristina Araujo Brinkerhoff, doctoral candidate
Authors: Cristina Araujo Brinkerhoff; Linda Sprague Martinez, associate professor; and Lenita Reason
1:00–2:00pm | Poster Session: Social Determinants of Health Among Immigrants, Refugees and Forcibly Displaced Communities
“Exploring Experiences of Discrimination and Stigma Among U.S. Immigrants: A Qualitative Analysis”
Presenter: Melanie Morris, doctoral candidate
Authors: Melanie Morris; Christina Lee, associate professor; MSW students Sylvie Tuchman and Andrea Cantalupa; BU School of Public Health’s Nicole Robertson (SPH’24), Carmen Zhou (SPH’22), Victoria Lopez (SPH’22), and Sarah Eisa (SPH’21), program manager for Prof. Lee; and Sam Bello, Irina Todorova and Audrey Hai.
Tuesday, Nov. 8
1:00–2:00pm | Poster Session: Promoting Health Programs that are Inclusive of People with Disabilities
“Needs of and Barriers to Achieving a Livable Life Among Refugees With Disabilities: A Scoping Review”
Presenter: Yibin Yang, doctoral candidate
2:30–4:00pm | Roundtable: Health Equity and Anti-Oppressive Public Health Social Work Practice
“Understanding Black Gay Men’s Experience with Racism in Therapy to Advance Health Equity: A Qualitative Interview Study”
Presenter: Dan Do (SSW’13, SPH’14), doctoral candidate
2:30–4:00pm | Program: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
“An Exploration of Cannabis Use and Race/Ethnicity”
Moderator: Corinne Beaugard, doctoral candidate
4:30–6:00pm | Program: Public Health Social Work
“Public Health Social Work Approaches to Enhancing Health Access and Meeting Social Work’s Grand Challenges”
Presenter: Dan Do (SSW’13, SPH’14), doctoral candidate
4:45–5:00pm | Program: Public Health Social Work
“Tracing the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline: State Agency, Adult Stakeholder, and Youth Perspectives on Dually-Involved Black and Latinx Youths’ Pathways into the Massachusetts Juvenile Legal System”
Presenter: Noor Toraif, doctoral candidate
Wednesday, Nov. 9
8:30–8:45am | Program: Disability
“Parenting at the Intersection of Intellectual Disability and Race: Prevalence and Child Welfare Involvement”
Authors: Wendy Zeitlin, Melanie Mertens and Astraea Augsberger, assistant professor
For details about the conference, please visit the APHA website here.