BCPH Event Events
Webinar, Nov 12, When I Say… Health Equity
Summit, Nov 23, AI Healthcare
Webinar, Dec 9, Nursing & HIV
BCPH Thought Fellows Applications Due
BCPH HIGHLIGHTS
What is the future of AI in Healthcare and Public Health Research?
The Boston Congress of Public Health (BCPH) will keep moving public health, so join us for our third and final 2024 Research Summit, “AI in Healthcare and Public Health Research,” set for Saturday, November 23, 2024, from 1 PM – 3 PM EST (10 AM – 12 PM PST).
Our expert speakers will explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in advancing medical practice and public health, from enhancing disease prediction and treatment personalization to improving health data analysis and decision-making, and discuss what this evolving collaboration looks like.
REGISTER NOVEMBER 23, 2024
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The Boston Congress of Public Health (BCPH) invites you for a FREE webinar, “When I Say … Health Equity,” set for November 13, 2024, from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST (10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST). In this unique session, Maranda Ward, a 2024 BCPH Health Innovator to Watch, will offer framing language to understand the distinguishable but interrelated concepts of health equity, health inequity, and health disparities.
Panelist
Dr. Maranda Ward
BCPH Health Innovator to Watch 2024
Maranda C. Ward, EdD, MPH is an Assistant Professor and Director of Equity in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. In this role, she designs, evaluates, and teaches health equity curriculum for student and faculty learners. Her research focuses on diversity, equity, inclusion, justice and antiracism educational interventions as well as stakeholder-engaged community-focused studies on HIV, Black women’s health, and youth identity.
As a member of the DC Center for AIDS Research (DC CFAR), she is the principal investigator on Two in One: HIV and COVID Screening & Testing Model that allows her to lead national research-based educational intervention for primary care practitioners to routinize screening and testing HIV, PrEP, and the COVID vaccine. This research will lead to a set of policy recommendations for overall practice-based changes and culturally responsive messaging for racial, ethnic, sexual and gender-minoritized patients.
Research from this study was published in the supplement, “Preparing the Health Workforce to Support Minoritized Populations Impacted by Dual Pandemics: HIV in the COVID Era,” published in our academic journal.
Apply for the Thought Fellowship
BCPH Thought Leadership for Public Health Fellowship
Applications Open – Due February 15, 2025
The mission of the Boston Congress of Public Health Thought Leadership for Public Health Fellowship (BCPH Fellowship) seeks to:
- Incubate the next generation of thought leaders in public health;
- Advance collective impact for health equity through public health advocacy; and
- Diversify, democratize, and broaden evidence-based public health dialogue and expression.
It is guided by an overall vision to provide a platform, training, and support network for the next generation of public health thought leaders and public scholars to explore and grow their voice.
We are accepting applications for next year’s cohort NOW. Apply by February 15, 2025 here.
Elevate Your Public Health Research and Practice with
BCPH’s New Programs & Services!
New awards honoring:
New grants supporting:
Recruit individuals from diverse backgrounds for research surveys and studies.
Be profiled in our forthcoming monthly showcase e-newsletter and social media.
Access special have access to exclusive training content on BCPH Academy.
Members can join the Speakers Bureau Directory, which provides access to speaking opportunities.
Elite Members receive “first dibs” to be faculty, webinar guests, and more!
Members may receive discounted/free access to events and non-expedite BCPHR submissions.
BCPH Announces the
Health Innovator Award Recipients
BCPH Announces the
40 Under 40 Public Health Catalyst Award Recipients
HPHR/BCPHR Releases Inaugural Supplement about Community-Centered Approaches to Eliminating HIV, PrEP/PEP, and COVID-19 Vaccine Stigma and Discrimination.
Watch the Supplement Launch Webinar, held August 8, 2024!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o0sBuWoiFg
On August 8, 2024, HPHR/BCPHR released its inaugural supplement, Community-Centered Approaches to Eliminating HIV, PrEP/PEP, and COVID-19 Vaccine Stigma and Discrimination, produced by George Washington University with support from Gilead Sciences. The supplement and all associated articles are available Open-Access on BCPHR.org. You can watch the webinar by clicking the image above or the button below.
About the Supplement and Webinar
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare what structural racism looks like in healthcare settings, workplace practices, and living conditions that disproportionately expose Black and brown communities to unfair health outcomes. Racial scholars have urged policymakers to rightfully shift their units of analysis from personal decision-making to the structural inequities that racially and ethnically minoritized communities face. The syndemic interaction between the COVID pandemic with the ongoing HIV pandemic makes visible the role that disparate access to healthcare and the other social determinants of health has on one’s exposure. As such, Gilead Sciences Incorporated funded a national training effort called “Two in One” to equally promote HIV/PrEP screening alongside COVID-19 vaccine screenings in the same primary care setting. The Two in One Model includes primary research, evidence-informed PCP training, and policy recommendations on the screening guidelines.
Our goal for publishing with HPHR Journal is to share a collection of scholarly papers that debunk theories that maintain people as problems as opposed to the conditions they live in as this aligns with the journal’s mission to investigate biological, psychosocial, and environmental determinants of health. While this supplement focuses specifically on HIV and COVID-19 prevention, its theoretical frameworks, methods, research, and policy implications have transferability to a range of other disparate patient outcomes. These papers illustrate how prioritizing the values and realities of the most marginalized groups is a community-centered approach useful for eliminating discrimination and stigma. Read the supplement here.
BCPH TEEPUBLIC STORE SALE!
Have you seen the Boston Congress of Public Health (BCPH.org)’s new line of t-shirts, stickers, hats, and other gear on TeePublic? Our affordable designs honoring health, human rights, and pride let you wear your heart on your sleeve. Take advantage of our store’s site-wide sale going on now!
Proceeds support BCPH programs for new and emerging health leaders, which include webinars, a training academy, and Thought Fellowship.
Welcome to the 2024 Cohort of the BCPH Fellowship!
Congratulations to the 2024 Cohort of the Thought Leadership for Public Health Fellowship:
- Buffy Jamison, MA (Fae/Fem/Faers)
Educator, Trainer, Consultant - Syed Saad Ahmed, MA (He/Him/His)
Development Communications Professional - Joy Belle Imagie-Douglas (She/Her/Hers)
Graduate Research Assistant
They will be participating in a series of trainings in anticipation of building a communications platform addressing public health through the lens of equity and justice. Learn more about them here.
BCPH Studio
Translates public health information for diverse audiences through the production and publication of blogs, vlogs, podcasts, TV series, and academic
journals,
including HPHR Journal.
BCPH Academy
Developing intersectional social justice technical assistance and trainings, such as webinars, certificate programs, and Fellowships, to support underrepresented voices and populations in public health.
