The Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health sponsors an annual Student Poster Session through the Academic Public Health Caucus during the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Exposition each year. This year, 28 students nominated by local chapters of Delta Omega from CEPH-accredited Schools and Programs of Public Health were selected to present their scholarship and research at the APHA meeting. The poster sessions showcase the excellent scholarship and research of our students. The schedule for poster sessions is as follows:
Delta Omega Poster Session I
Monday, October 26, 2020 | 3:00–4:00 PM ET
- Alejandra Leyton – Eta Chapter – Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, “Rural/urban differences in the association between indigenous origin and adolescent pregnancy in Bolivia: Findings from the 2016 demographic health survey”
- Brenna Kirk – Gamma Mu Chapter – West Virginia University School of Public Health, “Exploring patient-percieved facilitators and barriers to patient-provider communication regarding diabetes self-management in West Virginia”
- Emma Tumarkin – Tau Chapter – University of South Florida College of Public Health, “Developing an assessment tool for a refugee youth after school program”
- Greer McCollum – Upsilon Chapter – University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, “Working upstream: Risk factors for homelessness and opportunities for prevention”
- Jan Dahrendorff – Tau Chapter – University of South Florida College of Public Health, “Differential expression of mitochondria-related genes is associated with PTSD development in a prospective, community-based cohort”
- John Salerno – Gamma Zeta Chapter – University of Maryland School of Public Health, “Feeling unsafe and threatened: Interpretative phenomenological analysis of sexual health needs among lesbian and bisexual girls in foster care”
- Kimberly Williams – Beta Omega Chapter – Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, “Racial disparities in substance use treatment completion persist after implementation of the affordable care act”
- Leigh-Ann Williams – Alpha Psi Chapter – Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health, “Is there an association between weight loss methods and losing weight?”
- MariaLisa Itzoe – Delta Psi Chapter- Thomas Jefferson University, College of Population Health – MPH Program, “Tiny or tall, mighty or small- music for all!” : An online interactive storybook to promote body positivity in children”
- Vibhor Mahajan – Beta Omicron – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, “Rethinking emergency care: Data mining-based clinical profiles of substance use related emergency department utilizers”
Delta Omega Poster Session II
Monday, October 26, 2020 | 3:00–4:00 PM ET
- Ankita Patel – Delta Alpha Chapter – New York Medical College, School of Health Sciences and Practice, and Institute of Public Health, “The prevalence and trends of asthma in United States (US) adults,2005-2016: A national health and nutrition examination survey (NHANES) study”
- Ashish Shrestha – Alpha Delta Chapter – Saint Louis University College for Public Health & Social Justice, “Concept mapping: A mixed methodology approach to engage community stakeholders to identify factors for adaptation of an evidence-based child-maltreatment program”
- Charles Sanky – Beta Omicron Chapter – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, “Childhood obesity in trinidad & tobago: Community, academic, and governmental perceptions of a public health crisis”
- Kankana Sengupta – Mu Chapter – University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health, “Adverse childhood experiences in relation to cigarette smoking and e-cigarette vaping among U.S. high school students”
- Kristi Miley – Tau Chapter – University of South Florida College of Public Health, “Protecting against a viral invader: An examination of eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) activity in Florida”
- Paige Guillory – Alpha Psi Chapter – Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health, “Fall 2018 flu shot clinic: Lessons learned in pediatric vaccination in New Orleans, LA”
- Sherilyn Garner – Upsilon Chapter – University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, “Peace. love. youth. (in) yoga: Development of a mental health promotion program among adolescents living in the inner city”
- Sirena Gutierrez – Delta Nu Chapter – University of Texas Medical Branch, “Don’t fear the process: Collaborating to improve resource and service delivery of women in transition in Galveston, Texas”
- Sonali Salunkhe – Beta Pi Chapter – University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences, “Association between socio-demographic factors and sleep duration”
Delta Omega Poster Session III
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 | 5:00–6:00 PM ET
- Allie Silverman – Mu Chapter – University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health, “Creation of an inpatient addiction consult team at Prisma Health Richland: Lessons learned”
- Amber Sophus – Gamma Chapter – University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Public Health Program, “HIV/AIDS prevention interventions for black women in the U.S., 2012-2019: A systematic review”
- Bradley Knight – Beta Tau Chapter – University of Maryland School of Medicine Public Health Programs, “Examining the association between student perception of their cafeteria environment and where they get their lunch”
- Etienne Holder – Rho Chapter – University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences, “Estrogenic activity and risk of invasive breast cancer among postmenopausal women in the nurses’ health study”
- James Hilser – Beta Lamda Chapter – University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, “Clinical and genetic association of high-density lipoprotein with sars-cov-2 infection and hospitalization for COVID19”
- Jared Sawyer – Alpha Rho Chapter- Tufts University School of Medicine, “Indiana opioid vulnerability assessment, 2017”
- Lauren Ward – Eta Chapter – Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, “Detection and molecular characterization of norovirus in wastewater in New Orleans”
- Maikel Mansour – Delta Alpha Chapter – New York Medical College, School of Health Sciences and Practice, and Institute of Public Health, “Parents as HIV/STI prevention agents for gay, bisexual, queer adolescent sons: Exploring the facilitators and barriers to parent-child sex communication”
- Yaritza Peña – Alpha Rho Chapter- Tufts University School of Medicine, “Establishing consensus understanding of the barriers to drug development in lupus”
