Exploring sexual coercion, health disparities and food insecurity and improving services for people accessing emergency shelter and living in public housing

Saturday, March 21, 2015: 2:10 PM-3:30 PM
Room 13/14 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Coercive sexual environments contribute to health disparities
Speaker:
Susan Popkin, PhD, Urban Institute

Author:
Robin E. Smith, MPA, The Urban Institute

Creating a safety net for homeless families in an emergency shelter
Speaker:
Joyce N. Thomas, RN, MPH, PNP, FAAN, Center for Child Protection and Family Support, Inc.

Development and implementation of the PASS intervention (Promoting Adolescent Sexual Health and Sexual Safety) in Washington DC public housing
Speakers:
Sade Adeeyo, MA, Urban Institute
Tia Newman, N/A, DC Housing Authority

Authors:
Leah A. Gordon, MPH, Center for Gender Equity and Health, Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Susan Popkin, PhD, Urban Institute
Robin E. Smith, MPA, The Urban Institute
Elsa Falkenburger, MPA, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center
Chantal Hailey, BA, Urban Institute
Jay G. Silverman, PhD, Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego

Associations between food insecurity and intimate partner violence in a nationally representative sample from Nepal
Speaker:
Manali Nekkanti, MPH, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Authors:
Sheri Weiser, MD, MA, MPH, University of California, San Francisco
Alexander Tsai, MD, PhD, Harvard University
Nadia Diamond-Smith, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Anita Raj, PhD, University of California, San Diego

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