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About the Public Health Summit 2025

RIPHA, in partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Health, RIPHA is hosting its 3rd Public Health Summit, titled "Innovative Approaches to Advance Public Health: A Call to Collective Action".

 

This conference is open to anyone interested in health equity and public health. It welcomes a diverse audience, including public health professionals, community members, community Health Workers, community organizations, patients, healthcare providers, faith-based organizations, health plans, health centers, public health officials, researchers, and students.

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Join us on April 28, 2025, for RIPHA’s third annual Public Health Summit. Our primary goal is to provide an engaging opportunity for focused dialog on Health Equity and improving Community Health.  Let's come together to make a difference!

 

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8:00AM

Registration and breakfast

8:30AM

Opening: CMW Youth Alliance, MusicWorks

8:40AM

Welcome:

Larry O. Warner, DrPH, MPH President, Rhode Island Public Health Association

8:50AM

Opening Remarks:

Jerome Larkin, MD 

Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health

9:00AM

Keynote Dr. Michael Curry

President & CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers (The Mass League)

9:50AM

Panel “Policy and Public Health”: How local leaders do it.

10:40AM

Morning Breakout Sessions

  • Integrating Health Equity into Primary Care Transformation: Addressing Alcohol Use Disorder Through Collaborative Innovation: Garry Bliss, Nelly Burdette, PsyD., & Rachel Ferrara, MSW.

  • How Pioneering Community Leaders in Rhode Island are Developing Successful and Innovative Harm Reduction Services: Thomas E. Bertrand, MPH, Christa Thomas-Sowers, Arlo Narva, Raynald Joseph

  • Improving referral pathways and information sharing for CHWs and direct service providers: Dominique Resendes, BS, Wendy Sanchez, BS, Michael Nina, CCHW, Evylegna Rodríguez, MPsy.

  • Community Health Workers Reduce Health Disparities: A Multi-Sector Partnership: James Day.

11:40AM

Lunch/Visiting Vendors/ Students & CHWs Poster Session "Public Health; The Future is Now

1:00pm

1st. Afternoon Breakout Sessions

  • Centering the Voices of BIPOC and PWUD in Research Generation, Methodology, and Dissemination: Elijah McCray, B.S, Nya Reichley, MPA, Monica B. Tavares, BS, & Alexandria Macmadu, PhD.

  • Advancing Public Health Through Mobile Integrated Health and Community Paramedicine: Megan Umbriano, BS, AEMT-C & Marta Kryschuk, MS, AEMT-C

  • Rhode Island Maternal Health Taskforce: Deborah Garneau, MA & Haita Ndimbalan, MPH

  • Prevention is priceless: Connecting heart health and diabetes: Erica Franco Hanson, BA & Katlynn Kisla MS, RD, LDN

2:10PM

2nd Afternoon Breakout Sessions

  • Best Practices for Community Engaged Research: Alison Tovar, PhD , Dennis Bailer, CPRS, CCHW, Julia Shinnick, MD, Hilda R. Castillo, BA, Joseph Diaz, MD, MPH, Lisa Uebelacker, PhD, & Michelle McKenzie

  • Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention in Rhode Island: Casey Parker, MPH, Steven Williamson, PhD, Emily Tilano, MPH, & Erica Lamy, M.S.

  • Exploring Partnerships and the Impact of Community Engaged Health Models: Jennifer Latham, Matthew Roman, MSW & Susan Jacobsen, MA, LMHC, CCM,

  • Facilitated Networking

3:20PM

Closing Panel: “Driving Collective Action: Health Equity Zone (HEZ) Statewide Governance"

  • Closing Panel: “Driving Collective Action: Health Equity Zone (HEZ) Statewide Governance”: Sydney Ormerod, BS, Lucy Berman, Kristin Read , Ivy Swinski, CCHW, & Anusha Venkataraman

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