APHA Annual Meeting & Expo

The American Public Health Association (APHA) 2026 Annual Meeting and Exposition is an important gathering of more than 11,000 public health professionals from around the world. This event offers professionals opportunities to collaborate, learn, and connect through various educational and networking activities. Attendees include public health professionals, visionaries, current students, and future leaders who come to meet with organizations that shape the industry. The Yale School of Public Health is proud to support, exhibit, and present at this significant annual event for public health professionals worldwide.

Booth Hours

• Sunday, November 1: 12:15-6 p.m.
• Monday, November 2: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 3: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

View the YSPH booth location on the map.

Interested in representing YPSH by volunteering at our booth? Sign up to volunteer here.

We are hosting a special reception on Monday, November 2, from 6 - 8 p.m., which is open to the whole YSPH community. If you have any questions, please contact ysph.alumni@yale.edu.

Hyatt Regency Riverwalk
123 Losoya St.
San Antonio, TX 78205

RSVP to attend the alumni reception.

“One Battle after Another:” fighting on multiple fronts to defend our right to health and to visualize the road forward to a more just, healthy world

Sunday, November 1, 2026
2:30 - 4 p.m.
YSPH Panelist: Gregg Gonsalves
Learn more about the “One Battle After Another” session.

If Not Federal Datasets, Then What?

Monday, November 2, 2026
12:30 - 2 p.m.
YSPH Panelist: Anne Shapiro, PhD
Learn more about the “If Not Federal Datasets” session.

Candid Conversation: Defending Democracy is a Public Health Imperative and Here’s How We Do It

Tuesday, November 3, 2026
2:30 - 4 p.m.
YSPH Panelist: Gregg Gonsalves
Learn more about the “Candid Conversation” session.

Closing General Session: Together Towards Better Health: The Future of Public Health

Wednesday, November 4, 2026
12:30-1:45 p.m.
YSPH Moderator: Debra Houry, MD, MPH
Learn more about the Closing General Session.

1 - 2 p.m.

• Efficacy of a clinic-integrated HIV prevention app “JomPrEP” to improve HIV testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake among men who have sex with men in Malaysia: A randomized controlled trial
  YSPH Author: Jeffrey Wickersham
• Informed, clandestine, hesitant, or disenfranchised: How women make sense of PrEP in the context of intimate partner violence
  YSPH Author: Trace Kershaw
• Associations of alcohol use and adolescent depression and anxiety by gender in an urban Northeastern U.S. city
  YSPH Authors: Nimisha Srikanth, Sitara Weerakoon, Joy Lindsay, Ijeoma Opara
• Constellations of risk: socioecological profiles of structural adversity and polysubstance use among US adolescents
  YSPH Authors: Sitara Weerakoon, Xunyun Wan, Jaleah Rutledge, Joy Lindsay, Ijeoma Opara
• Differential Roles of Marital and Mother-Grandmother Relationship Quality in Predicting Maternal Suicidal Ideation in Rural Pakistan: Evidence from the Bachpan Cohort
  YSPH Author: Ashley Hagaman

3-3:15 p.m.

• Exploring Condom Use Among Adult Cisgender Black Women In Texas: A Qualitative Analysis
  YSPH Authors: Joyonna Gamble-George, Jasmine Abrams

3-4 p.m.

• “Honestly, the worst diagnosis to tell anyone about is herpes”: Provider Perspectives on Herpes Simplex Virus
  YSPH Author: Joyonna Gamble-George
• As Need Grows, Coverage Stalls: Trends in Mandated Hearing Aid Coverage Across Insurers and the Lifespan, 2008–2023
  YSPH Author: Reginald Hebert
• Time & Place in ALS: Geography as a Structural Determinant of Health in Caregiver and Care Recipient Lived Experiences
  YSPH Authors: Ikra Ahmad, Maame-Owusua Boateng, Avery DeWitt, Ashley Nurse, Asia Beason, Jaylen Moment, Joan K. Monin, Chelsey Carter

4:30-4:45 p.m.

• The Associations Between Sex Work, Substance Use, and Depressive Symptoms Among Cisgender and Transgender Female Sex Workers in Malaysia
  YSPH Author: Jeffrey Wickersham

5-5:15 p.m.

• Digital Intimacies and Sexual Health Risk: LGBTQ+ University Students in the Era of Hookup Culture
  YSPH Author: Trace Kershaw

8:30-8:45 a.m.

• “I would have hated her for good, and I would not come near her”: Exploring how intersectional stigma influences health workers’ treatment of clients receiving HIV services in Uganda
  YSPH Authors: Trace S. Kershaw, John Dovidio

8:30-10 a.m.

• Mapping the Hearing Health Policy Landscape: Development of a Multi-Insurer Policy Surveillance Database
  YSPH Author: Reginald Hebert

10:30-11:30 a.m.

• The incidence and context of multiple administrations of naloxone for treatment of opioid overdoses in the pre-hospital setting.
  YSPH Author: Christopher Morrison

11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

• Pacific Island communities: The intersection of health outcomes and determinants of health
  YSPH Author: Courtney Choy

12:30-1:30 p.m.

• Place-Based Disparities and Continuity of Care in Medicaid Hearing Aid Coverage Across the Adult Lifespan
  YSPH Author: Reginald Hebert
• Recommendations for creating college-community partnerships to address STIs in the southern United States
  YSPH Authors: Nimisha Srikanth, Amelia Apgar, Olivia Francis, Elly Maldur, Jaleah Rutledge, Ijeoma Opara
• Building the Public Health Workforce: A Practical Toolkit for Creating Effective Student Internship and Training Programs
  YSPH Author: Susan Nappi

2:30-3:30 p.m.

• Training Youth Citizen Scientists to Transform Urban Youth Substance Use Prevention Research: Findings from The SASH Lab at Yale Summer Youth Research Program
  YSPH Authors: Ijeoma Opara, Nimisha Srikanth, Joy Lindsay, Sitara Weerakoon

8:30-10 a.m.

• Strengthening Faith-Academic Partnerships for Public Health: Lessons From a Review of Collaboration, Trust, and Community Engagement
  YSPH Author: LaDrea Ingram
• Climate-related mental health harm: Spatial disparities by age and place across California
  YSPH Author: Kai Chen

8:45-9 a.m.

• “Didn't matter how many drug tests I passed and how many times I jumped through their hoops... they kept sending me back,” A Mixed Methods Investigation of The Institutional Circuit
  YSPH Authors: Kaylia Carroll, Trace Kershaw
• Social Return on Investment of a Multisectoral Nurturing Care Policies Package for Early Childhood Development in Brazil
  YSPH Author: Rafael Pérez-Escamilla

9:15-9:30 a.m.

• The Dreamer Girls Project: Utilizing ADAPT-ITT to develop a Drug Use Prevention and Sexual Health Wellness Intervention for Black Girls
  YSPH Authors: Ijeoma Opara, Jaleah Rutledge, Gina Sissoko

10:30-11:30 a.m.

• Household composition as a structural correlate of child mental health disparities across U.S. regions
  YSPH Author: LaDrea Ingram
• Exploring psychosocial predictors of life satisfaction among rural MSM: A hierarchical analysis
  YSPH Authors: Erin Nicholson, Sally Kirklewski, Trace Kershaw
• Latent Profiles of Dating App Use Motives and Their Associations with Sexual Risk Perception and Engagement
  YSPH Authors: Sally Kirklewski, Trace Kershaw, Erin Nicholson

10:45-11 a.m.

• Understanding anxiety and community trauma: a convergent mixed methods evaluation of structural and environmental risk for urban youth
  YSPH Authors: Sitara Weerakoon, Gina Sissoko, Ijeoma Opara

12:30-12:48 p.m.

• Witnessing
  YSPH Authors: Chelsey Carter, Maame-Owusua Boateng

12:30-1:30 p.m.

• Evaluating a state-level poverty-related legal index to assess the cumulative impact of law and policy on kidney transplant waitlist times using a latent variable structural equation model
  YSPH Author: Terika McCall
• Enhancing Volunteer Satisfaction and Retention in Faith-Based Health Outreach Programs
  YSPH Authors: Jhonatan Nagasako, Elena Gold, Monique Stefanou, Debbie Humphries

2:30-3:30 p.m.

• Feasibility and acceptability of a privacy protective digital peer support platform for substance use disorder recovery: Preliminary week 4 findings
  YSPH Authors: Jananthan Paramsothy, Dita Bhargava

2:30-4 p.m.

• The Communication Paradox: A Dyadic Analysis of Self vs. Partner Myths in Family Planning Dialogue
  YSPH Author: Trace S. Kershaw

3-3:15 p.m.

• Neighborhood trauma exposure, substance use, and mental health among urban youth: identifying adaptation processes
  YSPH Authors: Sitara Weerakoon, Ijeoma Opara

3:34-3:42 p.m.

• Spatial Latent Class Analysis of Sexual and Gender Minority Adults’ Health Risk Behaviors
  YSPH Authors: Bryce P Takenaka, Sally Kirklewski, Erin Nicholson, Trace Kershaw

4:45-5 p.m.

• The effect of health system ownership on the availability of general pediatric inpatient services
  YSPH Presenter: Bianca Chiu

5-5:15 p.m.

• School-based restorative justice implemented with high support may be promising for mental health among Black and Hispanic dating violence girl survivors
  YSPH Author: Trace Kershaw

5:15-5:30 p.m.

• Evaluating the effect of continued FIT screening: A target trial emulation using the clone–censor–weight method
  YSPH Author: Buket Öztürk Esen

10:45-11 a.m.

• Structural Stigma and LGBTQ+ Health: Meta-Analytic Evidence and Future Directions
  YSPH Author: John Pachankis

11-11:15 a.m.

• An overlooked workforce: Cardiovascular disease risk, psychological distress, and unmet care needs among urban market vendors in Uganda
  YSPH Authors: Yumi Yang, Drew Cameron
• Internalized Beliefs vs. Social Norms: A Dyadic Analysis of Family Planning Attitudes in Uganda
  YSPH Author: Trace S. Kershaw

11:15-11:30 a.m.

• Identifying Medicaid enrollees in same- and different-sex couples in Medicaid administrative claims and enrollment data
  YSPH Authors: Kyle Gavulic, John Pachankis, E. Jennifer Edelman, Anthony Lollo, Jacob Wallace

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