The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Community Engagement Alliance’s (CEAL) Regional teams and programs were excited to showcase their work at the 2024 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo. Over 30 presentations and events were focused on CEAL's success, lessons learned, and promising practices throughout the conference. 

Presentations

Sunday, October 27

1:00-2:00 p.m. - Corazones en acción (Hearts in Action): Evaluation of a community health worker-led intervention to support Latino/e essential worker health. Arizona CEAL (Poster) 

1:00-2:00 p.m. - Facilitating and hindering factors for effective public health communication with Michigan's latinx population in the context of COVID-19. Michigan CEAL (Poster)

1:00-2:00 p.m. - More than tracking fitness: The acceptability and feasibility of using wearable technology to address burnout in the health care workforce. Louisiana CEAL (Poster)

1:00-2:00 p.m. - Setting a course towards climate justice for Alaska Native communities: The Alaska alliance for community engagement – climate and health. ACE-CH (Poster)

1:00-2:00 p.m. - Vietnamese Americans’ level of trust in sources of information and willingness to participate in COVID-19 clinical trials. Texas CEAL (Poster) 

2:30-2:45 p.m. - How community-based organizations view and use data: Practices, barriers, and opportunities. Illinois CEAL (Oral Presentation)

3:00-4:00 p.m. - Evaluation of an Online Media Campaign to Promote COVID-19 Immunization and Clinical Trial Participation in Vietnamese Americans. Texas CEAL (Poster)

3:00-4:00 p.m. - NIH community implementation programs to equitably improve maternal health. NIH (Poster)

3:15-3:30 p.m. - Results from a mixed-methods evaluation of a research capacity building initiative for community-academic partnerships. Illinois CEAL (Oral Presentation)

4:30-4:45 p.m. - Prevalence of preeclampsia and eclampsia in six counties of the Texas Panhandle with variable access to maternity care services. IMPROVE-CIP (Oral Presentation)

4:30-6:00 p.m. - Building trust is not linear: Creation of ACHIEVE’s Black and Latina/e patient action groups. MH-CIP (Roundtable)

5:15-5:30 p.m. - Blight and social capital in urban neighborhoods. Michigan CEAL (Oral Presentation)

5:15-5:30 p.m. - Telling the story of expanding community health workers’ engagement in CEAL. CEAL Community Based Organization Community of Practice (Oral Presentation) 

Monday, October 28

8:30-8:45 a.m. - Unidos Sanamos (Together We Heal): Community Health Worker’s Training on Cultural Health Literacy. New Mexico CEAL (Oral Presentation)

10:30-11:30 a.m. - Georgia community health workers’ practices and perceptions around social media. Georgia CEAL (Poster)

10:45-11:00 a.m. - Co-creating conversation cards to address teen mental health. Missouri CEAL (Oral Presentation)

12:30-1:30 p.m. - Assessing COVID-19 health disparities among Vietnamese Americans: A community-based participatory research approach. Texas CEAL (Poster) 

12:30-1:30 p.m. - Facilitators and Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccination in Vietnamese Americans. Texas CEAL (Poster)

12:30-1:30 p.m. - Harnessing the power of partnerships and collaborations to achieve health equity: Recruitment, deployment, advocacy, and sustainability lessons learned from a multidisciplinary collaborative. Georgia CEAL (Poster)

3:00-3:15 p.m. - Building engagement using financial incentives for colorectal cancer screening (BENEFIT-C) in a rural federally qualified health center. Louisiana CEAL (Oral Presentation)

Tuesday, October 29

10:45-11:00 a.m. - Power of collaboration to build knowledge and strategies to address social determinants of health: Michigan communities conquering COVID-19 workshops to enhance equity in four Michigan counties. Michigan CEAL (Oral Presentation)

12:30-1:30 p.m. - Building more effective vaccine messages: Lessons from a participatory design focus group. New York CEAL (Poster)

12:30-1:30 p.m. - Heterogeneity among the vaccine hesitant in the CEAL Common Survey 2. Illinois CEAL (Poster)

2:30-2:45 p.m. - Fostering community health workers in public health train-the-trainer program. IllinoisCEAL (Oral Presentation)

2:30-3:30 p.m. - Corazones en acción (hearts in action): Evaluation of a community health worker-led intervention to support Latino/e essential worker health. Arizona CEAL (Poster)

2:30-3:30 p.m. - Protocol: Implementation and impact trial of a community health worker-led social risk intervention across three networks of community health centers. NCPCR (Poster)

3:15-3:30 p.m. - Implementing capacity-building initiatives to address health equity through researcher-community collaborations. Illinois CEAL (Oral Presentation) 

3:15-3:30 p.m. - Measuring the relationship between transportation insecurity, health quality, and health access. Michigan CEAL (Oral Presentation)

5:00-5:15 p.m. - Understanding Context: Partnering With the Community to Implement a Preconception Counseling Program in Community-Based Settings. MH-CIP (Oral Presentation)

5:15-5:30 p.m. - Application of the consolidated framework for implementation research 2.0 for planning implementation of preeclampsia screening and prevention strategies in six Texas panhandle counties: The phase I VIBRANT MOMS study. IMPROVE-CIP (Oral Presentation)

Wednesday, October 30

8:30-8:45 a.m. - Ethics, trustworthiness and transparency as drivers for community engagement: Utilization of dissemination strategies on science-informed factors to debunk misinformation. Michigan CEAL (Oral Presentation)

8:30-10:00 a.m. - Addressing knowledge gaps using insights from a weekly environmental scan process. Missouri CEAL (Roundtable)

8:30-10:00 a.m. - Aging in the digital era: Promoting digital equity by enhancing technology access. Missouri CEAL (Roundtable)

10:30-10:45 a.m. - Queerencia NM: An intersectional approach to build trust & resiliency among Latinx LGBTQIA+ communities. New Mexico CEAL (Oral Presentation)

10:45-11:00 a.m. - Mistrust and fear in biomedical research: Findings from a qualitative study on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Alabama CEAL (Oral Presentation)

11:00-11:15 a.m. - You're just wasting your time, without building relationships.'': Community perspectives on recruitment and engagement in clinical research. DMV CEAL (Oral Presentation)

12:30-12:45 p.m. - What gets measured gets done: Increasing funding to communities in community-engaged research. CETAC (Oral Presentation)

12:30-2:00 p.m. - Do people change their beliefs in health misinformation claims in response to counter message? Missouri CEAL (Roundtable)

12:45-1:00 p.m. - Partnering to identify and address community needs and build capacity. Illinois CEAL (Oral Presentation)

12:45-1:00 p.m. - Leveraging community partnerships for research in primary care settings. CETAC (Oral Presentation)

1:00-1:15 p.m. - Measuring trust in medical research: Engaging the community to identify a preferred instrument. DMV CEAL (Oral Presentation)