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PROGRAM
Resilience - The Phenomenon of Overcoming Adversity
The 12th Annual Break the Cycle program considers the role of resilience in promoting success for children living in adverse environmental circumstances. Join us and learn more!
Monday April 24, 2017
8:30 AM Registration & Breakfast
9:00 AM Opening of Program
Robert Geller, MD, Director, Southeast PEHSU, Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta GA
9:10 AM Message from the ATSDR
Michael Hatcher, DrPH, Chief, Environmental Medicine Branch, Division of Toxicology and Human Health Sciences, ATSDR, CDC, Atlanta GA
9:20 AM Message from the EPA
Ruth Eztel, MD, PhD, Director of the Office of Children’s Health Protection, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC
9:40 AM Introduction to Break the Cycle
Leslie Rubin, MD, Director, Break the Cycle Program, Associate Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine, Co-Director Southeast PEHSU, Atlanta GA
10:00 AM Home, Belonging and the Incarcerated Mother: A study on the effects of mass incarceration on children’s
behavioral health outcomes
Tatenda Mangurenje, student, Peter Brown, PhD, mentor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta
GA
10:20 AM Factors affecting the length of stay in drug exposed infants admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Praytibha Agarwal, student, David Wood, MD, MPH, mentor, Department of Pediatrics, East Tennessee State
University, Johnson City TN
10:40 AM Health Break
11:10 AM Impact of early life housing on child behavior at age seven
Abby Gaylord, student, Julie Herbstman, PhD, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York City, NY
11:30 AM A Silver Lining for High-Risk Infants: Coordinated Care for Children 0-32 Months
Lea Redd, student, Bree Andrews, MD, MPH, Department of Pediatrics—Neonatology, The University of Chicago
Medical Center, Chicago IL
11:50 AM Lunch
$10 Optional lunch (MUST be purchased with your registration) – network with presenters and attendees!
1:30 PM Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of recent exposure to DDT in children of selected communities of Zambia
Nosiku Munyinda, student, Charles Michelo, BSc, MBChB, MPH, MBA, PhD, Mentor, Department of Public Health,
University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
1:50 PM Racial Disparities in Access to Municipal Water Supplies in the American South: Impacts on Children’s Health
Frank Stillo, student, Jackie McDonald Gibson, PhD, mentor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC
2:10 PM KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Research Roadmap: Science and scientific gaps to help address different aspects of environmental justice
Andrew Geller, PhD, MS Deputy Director, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research Program
2:30 PM Health Break
3:00 PM Interactive Educational Lead Hazards Class to Children at the Boys and Girls Club in Metro Atlanta - Pilot
Catherine Evans, Amrita Mahtani, Sam Peters, Patrick Fueta, students; W. Michael Caudle, PhD, mentor,
Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta GA
3:20 PM The Role of Social Support and Adolescent's Mothers Breastfeeding Practices in North Carolina
Colleen Clark, student, Kimberly Price, PhD, mentor, Department of Public Health, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Hickory NC
3:50 PM The effectiveness of a community-based program of nutrition education and physical activity to decrease
health disparities of childhood obesity
Hope Bentley, student, Jannett Lewis-Clark, MOT, OTD, OTR/L, CLT, mentor, Department of Nursing and Allied Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee AL
4:10 PM Urban Farming as a Model for Positive Youth Development
Luis Torres, student, Cappy Collins, MD, mentor, Department of Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York City NY
4:30 PM Review and Conclusion
Leslie Rubin, MD
5:00 PM Adjourn
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Resilience: The Phenomenon of Overcoming Adversity
8:00 AM Registration and Breakfast
8:30 AM Introduction
Leslie Rubin MD, Director, Break the Cycle Program, Associate Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine,
Co-Director Southeast PEHSU, Atlanta GA
8:50 AM Started from the bottom: My resilience story
Natalie Hernandez, PhD, M.P.H., Assistant Professor, Prevention Research Center, Post-Doc Fellow, Center of Excellence on Health Disparities, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta GA
9:10 AM Resilience
Jessica Spraggins, M.P.H., CCPH Health Education Specialist, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Atlanta GA
9:30 AM Experience, Strength, and Hope
Lucy Hall, B.S., NCAC, and CASAC, CEO and Founder, Mary Hall Freedom House, Atlanta GA
9:50 AM Resilience
Mel Konner, MD, PhD, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Department of Anthropology, Program in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Emory University, Atlanta GA
10:10 AM Challenges to Work Groups
Leslie Rubin, MD
10:15 AM Health Break
10:30 AM Group Discussions
11:45 AM Feedback from Groups and Conclusion
12:30 PM Adjourn
Funding for this conference was made possible (in part) by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and funded (in part) by the cooperative agreement FAIN: U61TS000237-03 from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).
Acknowledgement: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supports the PEHSU by providing partial funding to ATSDR under Inter-Agency Agreement number DW-75-95877701. Neither EPA nor ATSDR endorse the purchase of any commercial products or services mentioned in PEHSU publications or presentations.