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2024 Scientific Meeting
Speaker Profiles

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Jon-Patrick Allem, PhD, MAJon-Patrick Allem, PhD, MA

Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy, Rutgers School of Public Health

Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine

Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Core Member, Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies

Profile

Title: Corporate Influence on Adolescent Health and Well-being

Objectives:

  1. Learn about the kinds of digital marketing that is prevalent in today’s marketplace (e.g., product placement, influencers).
  2. Learn about how new forms of digital marketing affect children and adolescents.
  3. Learn about how corporations try to avoid being held accountable for the harmful consequences of their products or services.

José Bauermeister, MPH, PhDJosé Bauermeister, MPH, PhD

Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations
Chair, Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing
University of Pennsylvania

Profile

Title: Developing, Implementing and Evaluating Digital Health Interventions for Behavior Change [jointly with Dr. Lisa Hightow-Weidman]

Objectives:

  1. Describe key strategies to promote the successful design and implementation of mHealth interventions for behavior change.
  2. Characterize the role of user engagement when designing and evaluating mHealth interventions.
  3. Discuss opportunities to increase the scale-up and dissemination of mHealth. interventions.

Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou, PhD, MPHWen-Ying Sylvia Chou, PhD, MPH

Program Director
Communication and Informatics Research Branch
National Cancer Institute

Profile

Title: Improving Health with Effective Communication: Lessons from Research on Misinformation

Objectives:

  1. Describe the current state of research on health misinformation, including tested mitigation strategies.
  2. Discuss health communication challenges and opportunities in a changing media ecosystem.
  3. Evaluate effectiveness of various approaches to communicate health and science information.

Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPHLisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH

Distinguished and Endowed McKenzie Professor
Interim Associate Dean for Research
Founding Director, Institute on Digital Health and Innovation
College of Nursing, Florida State University

Profile

Title: Developing, Implementing and Evaluating Digital Health Interventions for Behavior Change [jointly with Dr. José Bauermeister]

Objectives:

  1. Describe key strategies to promote the successful design and implementation of mHealth interventions for behavior change.
  2. Characterize the role of user engagement when designing and evaluating mHealth interventions.
  3. Discuss opportunities to increase the scale-up and dissemination of mHealth interventions.

Linnea Laestadius, PhD, MPPLinnea Laestadius, PhD, MPP

Associate Professor
Joseph J. Zilber College of Public Health
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Profile

Title: Keep Monitoring: The Limits of Self-Regulation for Harmful Commercial Content on Social Media

Objectives:

  1. Explain how the social media environment can be considered a commercial determinant of health.
  2. Describe and provide examples of the different forms of health relevant commercial content on social media platforms.
  3. Identify current challenges to creating more health promoting environments on social media platforms.

Seth M. Noar, PhDSeth M. Noar, PhD

James Howard and Hallie McLean Parker Distinguished Professor
Hussman School of Journalism and Media
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Profile

Title: Understanding the Impact of Vaping Prevention Messages on Adolescents

Objectives:

  1. Understand elements of effective vaping prevention messages for youth.
  2. Describe unintended consequences of vaping prevention message elements for youth.
  3. Estimate the impact of vaping prevention messages on youth.

Andy Tan, PhD, MPH, MBA, MBBSAndy Tan, PhD, MPH, MBA, MBBS

Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication

Director, Health Communication & Equity Lab

Profile

Title: For Youth, By Youth, With Youth: Co-designing Social Media Messages to Reduce Susceptibility to Vaping Initiation Among LGBTQ+ Youth

Objectives:

  1. Describe mixed-methods formative research to identify vaping-related beliefs and cultural tailoring preferences among LGBTQ+ youth.
  2. Describe bidirectional learning with LGBTQ+ youth as partners using an engaged research process.
  3. Describe social media message co-design with LGBTQ+ youth and message pre-testing.

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