34th Annual

Alaska Health Summitwww.alaskapublichealth.org/health-summit

January 17th - 19th, 2017

The Hotel Captain Cook939 W. 5th Ave, Anchorage, AK

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Convened by the Alaska Public Health Association

Summit ScheduleTuesday, January 17th

8:30 - 9 AM Welcome9 - 10:15 AM Plenary: “The Value of Traveling Upstream Together: New Approaches and New Partners” Thomas Quade10:30 - 11:45 AM Morning Breakout Sessions (75 minutes)

• Policy Change for Health: Alaska Native Tribal Health Organization Perspectives• Nourishing Communities: Intersections between Public Health and Food Insecurity• Alaska Primary Care Needs Assessment: A Tool for Programs and Communities• If You Build It, They May Not Come: The Breast Cancer Coalition’s Mobile Mammography

Project• Valuable Disease Prevention and Control Partnerships

Noon - 1:15 PM Lunch Plenary: “The State of the State’s Health” – Jay Butler 1:30 - 2:30 PM Afternoon Breakout Sessions I (60 minutes)

• A Community Health Needs Assessment Focused on the Social Determinants of Health • Farming in Rural Alaska for the Health and Wellness of Our People • Current Studies and Activities in Infectious Diseases at CDC’s Field Station in the Arctic:

The Arctic Investigations Program• Sex, Drugs, and HIV Prevention: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and HIV Treatment as

Prevention – How Biomedical Interventions = HIV Prevention 2016• Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO): Evidence-Based Telehealth

2:30 - 3 PM Student Poster Sessions3 - 4:30 PM Afternoon Breakout Sessions II (90 minutes)

• (Joint Session) Measuring Progress Towards Healthy Alaskans 2020: New Data from the Alaska Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and Healthy Alaskans 2020 Implementation: Community Action

• Communication to Achieve Health Equity for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities • (Joint Session) Surveillance of Child Abuse and Neglect: Two Novel Approaches to

Estimating Child Maltreatment in Alaska and A Community Assessment of the System that Promotes Well-Cared For and Safe Children

• Engaging the Community in Health Care: Health Education at Southcentral Foundation• Best Practices for Integrating Behavioral Health Services into Primary Care

5:30 - 7 PM ALPHA Reception Followed by ALPHA Annual Member Meeting

Confirmed Pre and Post Summit Sessions and Coalition Meetings• Connecting with Data2 and 2nd Annual Scientific

Advisory Meeting: Monday, 1 pm–5 pm • Understanding Social Security Benefits:

Friday, 1:30–3:30 pm• Running Effective Meetings: Friday, 8:30 am–5 pm• 7th Annual Water and Sanitation Innovations for the

Arctic Workshop–Climate Change, Water and Health: Friday, 8 am–5 pm

• Prevention Drug Overdose–Data Driven Prevention Initiative: Friday, 8 am–1 pm

For more information, visit: www.alaskapublichealth.org/health-summit

Sponsors Committed (as of November 16, 2016)• Alaska Children’s Trust• Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium• Department of Health Sciences, UAA • Graduate Program in Clinical Mental Health

Counseling, Southern New Hampshire University

• Information Insights, Inc.• Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies,

UAA • Mat-Su Health Foundation• Recover Alaska• SEARHC

Summit ScheduleWednesday, January 18th

7:30 AM ALPHA Past-Presidents Breakfast8:30 - 9:45 AM Plenary: “The Power of Policy Work in Promoting the Public’s Health” (tentative)

Larry Cohen10 - 11:15 AM Morning Breakout Sessions (75 minutes)

• Politics and Public Advocacy 101: What I Can Do to Have a Voice • Opening the Closet Door to Healthcare for LGBT Individuals• Development and Evaluation of Emerging Strategies to Prevent Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FAS/D) in Alaska• Successful Collaboration in TB Case Management and Disease Control• A Tale of Two Communities: Using Cross Sector Collaboration to Improve the Lives of

Children and Families11:15 AM - Noon Networking/Poster SessionsNoon - 1:15 PM Lunch Plenary: “Integrated Approaches to Improve Health Outcomes” (tentative)

Marcia Howell, Bridget Hanson, Karen Heath, and Kris Pitts1:30 - 2:45 PM Afternoon Breakout Sessions I (75 minutes)

• Recover Alaska: Advocating for Change in the Face of Adversity • Progress Towards Providing In-Home Water and Sanitation Services in Rural Alaska Homes:

Healthy Alaskans Indicator #19• CPT1A Arctic Variant: What We Know and What We Have to Learn• HEART: A Community-Based Teen and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Program• Successful Reentry is Collaborative and Coordinated Health Care, Employment, and

Housing Efforts3 - 4:30 PM Afternoon Breakout Sessions II (90 minutes)

• Strengthening Alaska’s Capacity to Prevent Prescription Opioid Misuse • Combating Abuse and Neglect in Alaska: Southcentral Foundation’s Family Wellness

Warriors Initiative• (Joint Session) Emerging Public Health Issues among Anchorage Youth and Collecting Youth

Data in an Active Parental Consent State• (Joint Session) Helping Alaska’s Children Grow Up at a Healthy Weight: Statewide Efforts

and Resources and Changing our Weighs• (Joint Session) Street Medicine: The Beginning, Growth, and Lessons Learned and Healthy

Dads, Healthy Families, Healthy Communities: A Mat-Su PH Program with Goose Creek DOC for Incarcerated Dads

7 - 8:30 Screening of Generation Found in the Captain Cook Discovery Ballroom

Thursday, January 19th

8:30 - 9:45 AM Plenary: “Health and Housing: Why Housing First Impacts Health and How Housing First Looks in Alaska” – Lisa Aquino, Nancy Burke, and David Driscoll

10 - 11 AM Morning Breakout Sessions I (60 minutes)• Alaska’s Public Health Centers and Community Health Centers – Unique & Complementary • Climate Change is Increasing the Hazardous Nature of Travel in Alaska: Evidence and

Implications for Health Equity• Multiple Chronic Disease Risk Factors in Alaska• A Community Approach to Harm Reduction: Addressing Opioids in Juneau• There’s an App for That! Transforming Community Health with Innovative Health System

Apprenticeships(Continued next page)

Keynote Speakers (see full bios at www.alaskapublichealth.org/health-summit/keynote-speakers)

Thomas C. Quade, MA, MPH is President-Elect of the American Public Health Association (APHA). He previously served on APHA’s executive board and as the Ohio Public Health Association President. Mr. Quade is currently the Health Commissioner for Marion County, Ohio. Prior to this, he was the Deputy Health Commissioner for Summit County, Ohio. He also holds a community faculty position with the Northeastern Ohio Medical University’s Master of Public Health program.

Jay Butler, MD, CPE was appointed by Governor Walker as Chief Medical Officer for the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services and Director of the Division of Public Health in December 2014. He is the current President of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Previously, Dr. Butler was Senior Director for Community Health Services at the ANTHC, where he was also a clinical infectious diseases consultant and Medical Director for Infection Control and Employee Health.

Larry Cohen, MSW founder and Executive Director of Prevention Institute, has been an advocate for public health, social justice, and prevention since 1972. Mr. Cohen established Prevention Institute in 1997 as a national non-profit center dedicated to improving community health and well-being by building

momentum for effective primary prevention. The Institute’s work is characterized by a systems approach to prevention, a strong emphasis on community participation, and promotion of equitable health outcomes among all social and economic groups.

Bridget L. Hanson, PhD is a research assistant professor at UAA’s Center for Behavioral Health Research & Services (CBHRS), Institute of Social and Economic Research. Dr. Hanson joined CBHRS after earning her PhD in Experimental Psychology, with an emphasis in social psychology, from the University of North Dakota in 2010. Her current projects include evaluating community efforts to prevent prescription opioid misuse and overdose in Alaska and exploring practice behaviors of health professionals and students for addressing alcohol misuse.

Karen Heath, MS is the Director of Research and Evaluation at the University of Alaska Anchorage Center for Human Development. Currently, she leads a team of researchers who conduct disability research in the areas of health, justice, and employment. In a recent project, Ms. Heath engaged an interdisciplinary team of university researchers in a needs assessment focused on the mental health of Anchorage youth. Ms. Heath has expertise in vocational rehabilitation and over 30 years of experience in the disability field.

Thursday, January 19th (continued)

11:15 - 12:15 PM Morning Breakout Sessions II (60 minutes)• Citizen Participation in Child Protection Policy and Practice• Health and Homelessness at Brother Francis Shelter: The Program and Our Guests, A Pilot

Project on Home Healthcare, and the Healthcare and Homelessness Partnership between Catholic Social Services and All of the Major Hospitals in Anchorage

• Community Norms and Adolescent Substance Use in Alaska: A Multilevel Model Approach to Understanding Alcohol, Tobacco, & Marijuana Use Among Alaska High School Students

• Culturally-Responsive Online Cancer Education Inspires Health Behavior Change• The Power of Partnership: If You Want to Go Fast, Go Alone; If You Want to Go Far, Go

Together12:15 - 1:45 PM Awards Luncheon2 - 3 PM Afternoon Breakout Sessions (60 minutes)

• The Community and Evidence-Based Public Health: Making Converts and Partners• Healthcare and Cultural Disparities• Integration of Multiple Data Streams to Improve Mental Health Care• Bringing Health to Anchorage Through Urban Homesteading• The Arctic Food Security and Nutrition Network

3:15 - 4:30 PM Closing Plenary: “No One Untouched: Addressing Stigma, Social Justice, and Support Systems of Opioid Addiction” Christopher Skinner and Andy Jones

Keynote Speakers (continued)

Marcia Howell, JD began working at the Alaska Injury Prevention Center in 2000 and has been Executive Director for 8 years. She has worked with a broad range of partners in an effort to make Anchorage and Alaska a safer place to live, work, and play. According to Ms. Howell, “Collaboration is essential to our work. It is through the convergence of diverse points of view, areas of expertise, and varied missions that we can make a difference.”

Kris Pitts, MPS is a Family Care Coordinator at the Alaska CARES Child Advocacy Center in Anchorage. She conducts child and developmentally-delayed adult forensic interviews, provides crisis intervention and resource referral, and educates families and children affected by neglect, maltreatment, physical abuse, and sexual violence. Ms. Pitts is also co-owner/operator of 3-Squared Consulting, Behavioral Health and Social Services consulting for community members and professionals.

Lisa Aquino, MHS is currently serving as the Executive Director of Catholic Social Services, bringing a public health perspective to the issues impacting the most at need in Anchorage. In this position, she helps form new partnerships and initiatives with hospitals and healthcare organizations and the Municipality of Anchorage. Ms. Aquino previously served in many public health leadership positions, including manager of the Tobacco Prevention and Control Program and coordinator of Healthy Alaskans 2020.

Nancy Burke, MSW serves as Mayor Ethan Berkowitz’s Housing and Homeless Services Coordinator in Anchorage. She works in policy, finance, and social services programming in affordable accessible housing for people with disabilities and the homeless, concentrating on the improvement of behavioral health service delivery structures and community housing.

Ms. Burke has worked on several program development efforts, including replicating Housing First projects in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau.

David Driscoll, PhD, MPH, MA is the director of the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies and Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. His research combines anthropological and epidemiological methods to develop and evaluate health promotion programs for culturally-distinct communities. Dr. Driscoll has published widely, including in the Journal of Rural Health, Health Promotion Practice, the International Journal of Circumpolar Health, and the Journal of Health Communication.

Andy Jones is the Chief for the Section of Rural and Community Health Systems, Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS). He oversees the Statewide Emergency Medical Services system, Trauma Unit, Health Emergency Response Operations, Office of Rural Health and Healthcare Access, and the opioid overdose outreach education and naloxone distribution program, Project HOPE (Harm-reduction, Overdose Prevention and Education). Mr. Jones is also the Incident Commander in the DHSS Emergency Operations Center.

Christopher Skinner is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rockstar Recovery Foundation. As a recovering opioid and benzodiazepine addict, Mr. Skinner directs an online recovery group of over 8,000 members. The group has helped people affected by addiction and assisted hundreds in accessing treatment while sharing their experiences, strength, and hope. Mr. Skinner is also active in the offline recovery community. He attends weekly Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous meeting where he leads the discussion and is a speaker for Access DUI for up to 100 people.

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