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MAKE MY PSA CONTEST
APRIL 4, 2023 | 12:30-5:30 pm | The DuBois Center UNC Charlotte Center City
Thank you for joining us for this annual event, bringing together UNC Charlotte faculty and students, Mecklenburg County public health professionals, data scientists, health care organizations, community groups, and policymakers to explore innovative new approaches to addressing the Charlotte area's most pressing community health needs and priorities.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Photo courtesy of C.S. Muncy
STEVEN W. THRASHER holds the inaugural Daniel Renberg Chair at Northwestern's Medill School, the first journalism professorship anywhere to focus on LGBTQ research. He is also on the faculty of Northwestern's Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing.
An interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Thrasher is an internationally recognized expert on race, social epidemiology, and the criminalization of disease who has addressed universities and medical institutions around the world. In 2020, he served as a national surrogate to presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders, advising the campaign on its healthcare policies. He has written about the HIV/AIDS, Covid-19, and monkeypox epidemics for the New York Times. Guardian, Atlantic, and BuzzFeedNews, as well as in numerous scholarly journals.
His first book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide, was published in August 2022 by Celadon Books and Macmillan Publishing to wide acclaim. The book was on "best of" lists from Apple, Amazon, USA Today, Kirkus Reviews, New York magazine and Publishers Weekly. The Viral Underclass was also a longlist finalist for both the American Library Association's Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, and won Best in Literature from the POZ Awards for its depiction of HIV/AIDS. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and tweets @thrasherxy.
APHI INNOVATION AWARDS
Please join us in honoring the commitment and leadership of eight individuals
who are supporting APHI's mission by developing innovative solutions addressing the Charlotte area's health needs and priorities. This year's recipients, listed below,
were recognized and presented with an award at the 2023 Nexus event:
Kimberly Bayha
Tobacco Control
Program Manager
Mecklenburg County Public Health
Tamikia Greene
Assistant Health Director
Case Management and Health Partnerships
Mecklenburg County Public Health
Meagan Zarwell
Assistant Professor
Public Health Sciences
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Raynard Washington
Health Director
Mecklenburg County
Public Health
Maren Coffman
Associate Professor, School of
Nursing and Robert Woods
Johnson Faculty Scholar (2009)
The University of North
Carolina at Charlotte
Milad Rogha
PhD Degree Program in Computer Science
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Renu Karule
Masters Degree Program in Computer Science
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Sebastian Marin-Cespedes
Undergraduate Degree Program in Public Health
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The 2023 Nexus has been certified for up to 2.5 professional continuing education
units (CEUs) for ACHE, CHES, CPH, and Social Work contact hours.
Important Note: APHI will use Zoom attendance logs to verify session participation. So please be sure to connect to the session using the Zoom account associated with the email address used to register for the Nexus (e.g. @uncc.edu or @mecknc.gov) and not a personal or unidentifiable email address (rw2713@gmail.com), or we will be unable to confirm your attendance for certification purposes.
Requesting CEU credit requires completion of the online Qualtrics survey linked above, and takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. We recommend the use of a computer, rather than a mobile device, for ease of completion. For questions, please email Contact@APHInnovation.org.