Join us at APHA’s Annual Meeting in November

We’ll be at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting Nov. 2-6 in Boston, presenting and featuring the useful components of the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program. Visit us at Booth 830 in the Expo and see below to learn more about some of the panels and presentations we’ll be a part of:

Monday, November 4

• 8:30-8:50 a.m. Relative contributions of health determinants on health outcomes at the county level 
• 1:30-1:50 p.m. From data to information for action: The county health rankings experience 
• 1:10-1:30 p.m. Evidence: What is it and does it matter?
• 5:10-5:30 p.m. Social determinants: Strategies for public health nurses to strengthen local efforts to improve health  

Tuesday, November 5

• 8:30-10 a.m. Building Healthy Communities: Exemplars from the Field 
  • What makes a community a healthy place to live, learn, work, and play? 
  • Making improvements in social and economic factors leads to improved health in low-income communities 
  • Mobilizing multi-sector partners to achieve countywide community goals 
  • Multisector approach to health equity through systems change, community engagement, and evaluation 

• 12:30-2 p.m. Improving Methods to Measure Population Health: The County Health Rankings Experience
  • Background: Overview of the County Health Rankings Program
  • Small Area Estimation and Validation Framework
  • Five approaches to modeling estimates—and their associated weaknesses 
  • Improving the Precision of Population Health Measures and Ranks with Longitudinal and Joint Outcome Models 
• 12:30-2 p.m. The Power of Multi-Sector Coalitions: Improving Health through Education Policy
  • Multi-sector partnerships for health: Eight capacities for effective advocacy 
  • Ensuring healthy futures by supporting education from cradle to college 
  • From k-ready to healthy communities: How the world class greater Philadelphia partnership is promoting the adoption of kindergarten readiness assessments in greater Philadelphia 
  • Power of an unlikely collaboration: Detroit regional infant mortality reduction task force's initiative to “sew up the safety net for women & children”