The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Community Engagement Alliance’s (CEAL) Regional teams and programs are excited to showcase their work at the 2024 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo. Over 30 presentations and events focused on CEAL's success, lessons learned, and promising practices will take place throughout the conference. If you’re attending APHA, please plan to connect with NIH CEAL by:

• Attending a CEAL session or presentation.
• Visiting us at booth #1610 in the exhibit hall.
• Following us on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn and joining the conversation using the hashtags #NIHCEAL and #APHA2024.

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)