Reimagining Health in Cities: New Directions in Urban Health Research and Action
Poster Presentations
1. Variations in neighborhood perceptions by race and legal status. Alexis Cooke; Maria-Elena Young
2. Supportive Adults in Violence Exposure Among Male Youth in Urban Environments. Alison Culyba, MD, MPH; Kenneth
Ginsburg, MD, MSEd; Craig-Dalsimer; Joel A. Fein, MD, MPH; Charles C. Branas, PhD; Therese S. Richmond, PhD,
CRNP; Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD; Douglas J. Wiebe, PhD
3. Cardboard Commentary: A Qualitative Analysis of the Signs from America's Streets. Allison Golinkoff, MPH; Moriah
Hall, MPH; Lauren VonHoltz, MD, MPH; Rosemary Frasso, PhD, MSc, CPH; Willie Baronet, MFA
4. Evaluating the Community Effect of Physical Activity Intervention Program in a Brazilian Urban Area through Propensity
Score Approach: The Beaga Health Study. Amanda Andrade, MS; Amanda Fernandes, MS; Cynthia Graciane Carvalho
Ramos; César Coelho Xavier; Fernando Augusto Proietti; Sueli Aparecida Mingoti; Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa
5. The Geographic Landscape of Hospitals’ Community Benefit in Philadelphia. Amanda Doty; Avi Baehr, MD Candidate;
Melissa Stewart; David N. Karp, MUSA; Douglas J. Wiebe, PhD; Rhea E Powell, MD, MPH; Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA,
MS
6. Police Discrimination and African American Health: A Systematic Literature Review. Amanda Onwuka, PhD Candidate;
Kristen Brown, PhD Candidate; Kate Duchowny, PhD Candidate
7. Community-Based Intervention: Effect of a Promotion Program of Physical Activity in an Urban Center Brazil. Amanda
Fernandes, PhD Candidate; Amanda Souza, PhD; Candidate Gerais; Dário Alves; Fabiano Célio; Amélia Friche; César
Xavier; Fernando Proiett; Waleska Caiaffa
8. Community Resilience: Creating a Framework for Public Health. Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD; William Koulisis; Constance
Owens
9. Monitoring & Evaluation of the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships: Results to Date. Suruchi Sood, PhD;
Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD; Amy Confair, MPH
1 10. Associations between exposure to fast food restaurants, fruit and vegetables, and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption,
and prevalence of overweight in Brazil. Ana Clara Duran, PhD; Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH; Daniela Silva
Canella, PhD; Patricia Constante Jaime, PhD
11. Fetal and Early neonatal deaths at an Urban Hospital NICU: A descriptive analysis. Arleen Haynes- Laing, MD;
Mrunande Rathod, MPH Candidate; Vineet Bhandari, MD
12. Community-Academic Partnership in Urban Gardening: Measuring Strength and Connectivity using PARTNER. BrandyJoe Milliron, PhD; Mara Z. Vitolins, PhD; Janet A. Tooze, PhD
13. Planning for a Healthier Los Angeles: A Case Study. Breanna Morrison; Jacqueline Illum; Lark Galloway-Gilliam;
Malcolm Carson, JD; Alison Spindler; Tahirah Farris; Denise Payan, PhD; LaVonna B. Lewis, PhD; David C. Sloane,
PhD
14. Community Participation Among Persons with Severe Mental Illness: Relationship with Housing Type, Psychiatric, and
Neighborhood Factors. Brianna Harney, MA; Phillip Yanos, PhD; Ana Stefancic, PhD
15. Improving Nutrition and Physical Activity of Low-Income Preschoolers. Brittany Schuler, PhD; Baylie Fowler; Megan
Lopes, MPH, LSW; Erin Hager, PhD; Maureen Black, PhD
16. Chart Review in the Digital Age: When will research methods catch up? Byron Alex, MD; Elizabeth Lurie, MPH;
Katharine McVeigh, PhD
17. Cardiovascular vulnerability to Extreme Heat. Carina Gronlund, Dr; Marie O'Neill, Dr.; Sara Adar; Joel D. Kaufman;
Amy H. Auchincloss, PhD; Joao A. Lima; Lianne Sheppard; Jamie Madrigano; Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH
18. Evaluation of a trauma-informed care training program in Philadelphia. Cecelia Harrison; Carol Murray; K.L. Kosher; E.
Steinmiller; B. Ely; J. Lamaina; J. Tracey; J.A. Fein, MD; M.L. Marsac, MD
19. Treatment Adherence among Minorities with Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC). Cesar Ignacio Fernandez Lazaro;
David P Adams, Prof.
20. Neighborhood Resource Density and Black Racial Residential Segregation. Chinonyerem Madu, MPH; Yvonne Michael,
ScD, SM
21. Connectivity, Systematic Social Observation (SSO) and contextual indicators of health in an urban setting. Dario Costa;
Fabiano Célio, PhD Candidate; Amanda Fernandes; Amanda Souza; Amélia Friche; César Xavier; Fernando Proietti;
Waleska Caiaffa
22. The high price of milk versus soda and the increased differential within urban and minority neighborhoods. David Kern,
Doctoral Candidate; Amy Auchincloss, PhD; Mark Stehr; Lucy F. Robinson, PhD
23. Visualizing the impact of Medical Legal Partnerships (MLP) addressing social determinants of health (SDH) in urban
low-income disability communities using GIS mapping. Elizabeth Oquendo, JD; Tomas Bednar, JD, MA; Nathaniel Henry,
BS
24. Physical and social characteristics of the housing context associated with the self-perception neighborhood size. Fabiano
de Almeida Célio, MPH; Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, PhD; Cesar Coelho Xavier, PhD; Fernando Augusto Proietti,
PhD; Amanda Cristina de Souza Andrade, MPH; Amanda Paula Fernandes, MPH; Dario Alves da Silva Costa, MPH;
Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, PhD
25. County-Level Institutional Racial Discrimination: A Measurement Model. Geoff Dougherty, PhD Candidate; Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Thomas Glass, PhD
2 26. Factors underlying the disproportionate burden of TB in urban Michigan. Grace Noppert, PhD Candidate; Philippa
Clarke; Mark L. Wilson; Zhenhua Yang
27. Working with a Medical Legal Partnership to Address Food Insecurity in an Urban Pediatric Practice. Hans Kersten,
MD; Elizabeth Oquendo, JD, MPH; Dan Taylor, DO
28. A Hunger-free model helps hospitals SPEAC to families. Hans Kersten, MD; Kirsten Johnson-Moore, RN; William
Woodall, MPH; Elizabeth Oquendo, JD, MPH; Bruce A. Bernstein, PhD
29. Smoking behavior among lesbians and gays: The influence of alcohol use on sexual orientation. Hui Xie; Joseph J. Zilber
30. The Career Support Network: Integrating chronic disease prevention and management programs and occupational
therapy into a workforce development program for low-skilled, low-resourced individuals. James Plumb, MD, MPH;
Rickie Brawer, PhD, MPH, MCHES
31. Demographic and Clinical Factors Associated with Receipt of Confirmatory Hepatitis C Testing. Jeffrey Hom, MD;
Kendra Viner
32. New Directions in Research Recruitment and Enrollment in an Urban Setting. Jennifer Colon, PharmD, MS, MBA,
MAUB candidate; Amie Devlin, MPH, MAUB candidate
33. Mass Incarceration and Infant Mortality in U.S. Counties. Joe Hulihan; Prof. Albert Crawford; James Plumb, PhD
34. Identifying Community Assets Among Three Diverse Public Housing Communities: Linkages to Health and Wellness
Services. Joy Oguntimein; Devon LaPoint
35. Prescribing Fresh Produce to Families in Need. Katie Tran, MD; Hans Kersten, MD; William Woodall, MPH; Bruce
Bernstein, PhD
36. Development of an agent-based model to explore leisure-time physical activity population patterns. Leandro Garcia,
Sc.M.; Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH; André Martins, ScD; Yong Yang, PhD; Alex Florindo, ScD
37. Is the neighborhood food environment associated with dietary patterns? Data Analyzes from ELSA-Brasil Study. Leticia
Cardoso; Amy Auchincloss, PhD; Simone M Santos; Dora Chor; Rosane Harter Griep; Enirtes Prates Mello; Arlinda
Moreno; Sheila M. Alvim Matos; Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH
38. Researching Community Change: The Development of Sanctuary in Strawberry Mansion. Lidyvez Mejia; Stephen
Kauffman, PhD
39. Housing is HIV Prevention and Treatment: ACT UP Philadelphia’s campaign to end homelessness among people living
with HIV/AIDS through research and advocacy. Luke Messac, MD/PhD Candidate; Max Ray-Riek; Clifford Williams;
Erica Goldberg; Val Sowell; Tiffany Thompson; Roland Li; John Barbieri
40. A case study of food stores in Madrid and Baltimore: Availability and accessibility to healthy food. Manuel Franco, MD,
PhD; Julia Diez, BHlthSc; Usama Bilal, Alba Cebrecos, Thomas Glass, Francisco Escobar, Joel Gittelsohn
41. Understanding the local food environment in relation to health: A photovoice project in Madrid. Manuel Franco, MD,
PhD; Paloma Conde, PhD candidate; Julia Diez; María Sandín; María Urtasun; Marta Sastre; Maribel de Dios; Francisco
Escobar; Javier Segura
42. Neighborhood sociodemographic status and walkability in Madrid. Manuel Franco, PhD; Universidad de Alcalá; Pedro
Gullon, MD; Alba Cebrecos; Francisca Sureda; Usama Bilal; Julia Díez; Francisco Escobar
3 43. Reframing Emergency Care as a Community Public Good. Melissa Stewart; Avi Baehr, MD Candidate; Amanda Doty;
David N. Karp; Kristin L Rising, MD, MS; Bon S. Ku, MD, MPP; Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA, MS
44. Impact of HCV Testing in a Targeted Group of High-Risk Individuals from the Community. Michelle Dougherty; Stacey
Trooskin; Lora Magaldi
45. Developing a cloud based platform as a service to improve public health of epileptic patients in urban places.
Mohammad-Parsa Hosseini, PhD Candidate
46. Data-Informed and Community-Driven: An Approach to Address Birth Outcome Inequities in 16 Urban Communities
Across the U.S. Monica Beltran; Denise Pecha; Chad Abresch, MEd; Carol Gilbert, MS; Allison Miles, MPH; Rebecca
Ramsey, MPH; Kara Gehring, MPH
47. Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Primary Care Access in a US Metropolis: A Multi-level Study of Greater
Philadelphia. Mustafa Hussein, PhD; Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH; Robert Field, PhD
48. Philadelphia Autism Project: Awareness to Action. Pamela Piscitelli; Kaitlin Miller; Lindsay L. Shea
49. Predictors of store location choice over 25 years in 4 U.S. Cities. Pasquale Rummo, MPH; Penny Gordon-Larsen, PhD;
David K. Guilkey, PhD
50. Reaching urban youth through digital media and public transit: Findings from the Teens in NYC 2014 marketing
campaign. Radhika Gore, PhD Candidate; Meredith Slopen; Sarah Roberts; Allyna Steinberg
51. Healthy Corner Store Network “Heart Smarts” Program. Rickie Brawer, PhD, MPH; James Plumb, MD, MPH; Hilda
Rivera, MPH; Sandra Sherman, ED; Nyssa Entrekin
52. Benchmarking a Home-Delivered Meal (HDM) Program's Annual Satisfaction Survey. Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili, PhD,
RN, CNSC, FASPEN; Katelyn Baron; Jennifer Nasser, PhD, RD; Nicole Laverty, RD, LDN
53. Network Modeling of Smoking Experimentation Among High School Students: Exploring the Impact of Trait
Heterogeneity in Friendship Circles. Sarah Cherng, MPH; Rafael Meza, PhD
54. Exposure to Secondhand Smoke in New York City: Current Status, Changes Over the Past Decade and Comparison with
the U.S. Sharon Perlman; Claudia Chernov; Shannon Farley; Carolyn Greene; Ken Aldous; Amy Freeman; Lorna Thorpe
55. The Urban Health Plan as Integrator for Population Health Improvement. Steven Szebenyi; Anje Van Berckelaer; Kristin
Beck
56. Rationale and design of the Violence, injury and trauma observatory (VITO): the VITO Study. Tali Cassidy; Ardil Jabar,
PhD; Tolullah Oni, PhD; Mark Engel, PhD; Richard, Matzopoulos, PhD
57. Assessing walking and cycling environments in the streets of Madrid: Comparing on-field and virtual audits. Usama Bilal,
MD; Pedro Gullon, MD; Hannah M. Badland, PhD; Silvia Alfayate, BSc; Francisco Escobar, PhD; Alba Cebrecos, BSc;
Julia Diez, BSc; Manuel Franco, MD, PhD
58. An in-depth characterization of a neighborhood’s social and physical environment in relation to cardiovascular health.
Usama Bilal, MD, MPH; Manuel Franco, MD, PhD; Julia Diez; Silvia Alfayate; Pedro Gullon; Francisco Escobar; Maria
Sandin; Isabel del Cura
59. Longitudinal Associations between Neighborhood Amenities and Mobility in Older Adults. Ying Cui; Yvonne Michael,
ScD, SM; Loni Philip Tabb, PhD
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