NewsAwards and GrantsDoug Evans won a grant from Johnson and Johnson to evaluate the text4baby mobile health marketing intervention, which promotes adherence to pre-natal care among low-income women. Lorien Abroms was awarded an administrative supplement to her K Award from the National Cancer Institute entitled, "Using Email to Enhance Counseling Services at NCI's Smoking Cessation Quitline." Doug Evans is consulting with Population Services International on condom brand promotion. His work with PSI takes him to Madagascar and Tanzania in early October for site visits. Presentations and Meetings**Lorien Abroms** Abroms, LC. Using New Communication Technologies for Smoking Cessation. Georgetown University, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Washington, DC. Oct. 1, 2009. Abroms, LC. Using New Communication Technologies to Enhance Services at Smoking Quitlines. Invited lecture for the North American Quitline Consortium. Washington, DC. Sept. 9th and 11th, 2009. Abroms, LC. Invited Panalist to "Developing a New Mobile Therapy: Twitter for Tobacco Tweetment", a one day workshop at the National Institute of Drug Abuse, NIH, Rockville, MD. Sept. 21st, 2009. Bontemps-Jones, J., Westmaas, J. L., Abroms, L., Bauer, J., & Bade, J. (August, 2009). Black smokers don?t and will never use quitlines: Fact or fiction? Poster presented at the American Cancer Society's Health Equity through the Cancer Lens Conference, Las Vegas, NV. **Doug Evans** Evans, W.D. "Social Marketing: Effective Campaigns and How They Work." Invited Presentation at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at The Johns Hopkins University, September 2009. Evans, W.D. "Mediators of Parent-Child Communication About Sex." Presented at the 6th Annual Media Psychology Society Meeting, Duisburg, Germany, September 2009. Evans, W.D. "Health Equity, Social Determinants, and Social Marketing." Invited Presentation at the Presented at the Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Health Marketing Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 2009. Evans, W.D. "An Ecological Approach to Branding Childhood Obesity Prevention." Presented at the Presented at the Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Health Marketing Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 2009. Evans, W.D. "An Ecological Approach to Branding Childhood Obesity Prevention." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Cascais, Portugal, June 2009. PublicationsEvans, W.D., Silber-Ashley, O., Davis, K.C., Snider, J. (Forthcoming). "Parent-child Agreement About Sexual Communication." Journal of Adolescent Health. Evans, W.D., Blitstein, J., Davis, K.C., Ulasevich, A. (Forthcoming). "Mediators of Parent-Child Communication About Sexual Activity." Prevention Science. In the newsDoug Evans was interviewed on Sept. 2, 2009 by ABC News on public health communications on swine flu. View his comments here. An article was written for this month's Parenting Magazine about Dr. Lorien Abroms' work with an iPhone app for smoking cessation. Student NewsJanice Cunningham, MPH in Public Health Communication & Marketing Presented at the CDC Health Marketing Conference in Atlanta (August 2009) on MDOT (Mobile Direct Observation of Treatment) for TB treatment Compliance; She will also present this work at the mHealth Summit October 29th. |
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