Workshop on Housing and Obesity: Gaps, Opportunities, and Future Directions for Advancing Health Equity

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Background

This multi-agency sponsored workshop will explore the role of housing insecurity in obesity-related health disparities, the evidence base for housing-related interventions to address obesity disparities, and future directions to advance health equity for all. Housing insecurity is a serious rising challenge in the U.S. with millions of households unable to afford rent and utilities, experiencing frequent moves, living in low quality housing, and residing in under-resourced neighborhoods. The increasing levels of housing insecurity contribute to burden of obesity through multiple, interacting mechanisms at the individual-, interpersonal, community, and societal-levels. This includes inadequate availability and access to healthy and affordable food, lack of safe green spaces, transportation, and other challenges. Moreover, housing insecurity is rooted and sustained in historical systemic racism and is a driver of present-day residential segregation, disparities in home ownership, housing inequality, and wealth inequalities.

Meeting Objectives

The overall goal of this workshop is to accelerate research on the role of housing insecurity—including housing affordability, quality, stability, and its neighborhood context— on behaviors and pathways underlying risk for obesity-related health disparities across the lifespan. The workshop will emphasize existing research that connects housing policies and programs with obesity and also address methods for housing and obesity research, including study design, measures, data linkages and analytic approaches. The event will highlight interventions focused on addressing housing as a social need and that also move upstream to address housing as a core social determinant of health. The workshop will include engaging and interactive discussions to identify key research questions for advancing health equity research priorities relevant to diverse sectors and identify opportunities to create research partnerships and collaborations across Federal, regional and local housing programs.

The workshop is a two-day, online event and is free and open to the public. The meeting will bring together a diverse group researchers, leaders, and experts from a range of disciplines, including housing, obesity, health disparities, health equity, public health, and other relevant fields. The event will feature panel presentations, poster sessions, breakout sessions, and interactive discussions. Registration is required.

Sponsors

This workshop is supported by the National Institute of Health (NIH), including National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Cancer Institute (NCI); Office of Disease Prevention (ODP), NIH; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD); National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), and National institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Workshop Co-chairs:
Danya Keene, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences)
School of Public Health
Yale University

Craig Pollack, M.D., M.H.S.
Katey Ayers Endowed Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Scientific Program Leads
Mary Evans, Ph.D., NIDDK, NIH
Alison Brown, Ph.D., M.S., RDN, NHLBI, NIH
Jacqueline Lloyd, Ph.D., M.S.W., ODP, NIH

Organizing Committee Members:
Shavon Artis Dickerson, Dr.P.H., M.P.H; NIDDK, NIH
Raquel Greer, M.D., M.H.S.; NIDDK, NIH
Fanta Kamara, M.S.; NIDDK, NIH
Barbara Linder, M.D., Ph.D.; NIDDK, NIH
Saira Mehmood, Ph.D.; NIDDK, NIH
Jenna Norton, Ph.D., M.P.H; NIDDK, NIH
Vanessa White, M.S.; NIDDK, NIH
David Berrigan, Ph.D., M.P.H.; NCI, NIH
Marissa Shams-White, Ph.D., M.S.T.O.M., M.S. M.P.H.; NCI, NIH
Rebecca Campo, Ph.D.; NHLBI, NIH
Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, M.D.; NHLBI, NIH
Laurie Friedman Donze, Ph.D.; NHLBI, NIH
Regina Bures, Ph.D.; NICHD, NIH
Layla Esposito, Ph.D.; NICHD, NIH
Olga Herren, Ph.D.; NIMHD, NIH
Yewande Oladeinde, Ph.D.; NIMHD, NIH
Lynn Adams, Ph.D.; NINR, NIH
David Banks, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.S.W., R.N.; NINR, NIH
Bramaramba Kowtha M.S., R.D.N., L.D.N; ODP, NIH
Elizabeth Vogt, M.P.H; ODP, NIH
Liberty Walton, M.P.H.; ODP, NIH
Leah Lozier, Ph.D.; HUD
Stephanie Rutledge Ph.D.; CDC
Christopher Holliday, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A., FACHE; CDC

Registration Deadline

November 9, 2022

Agenda

November 14, 2022, 12:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. EST

12:00 p.m. – 12:05 p.m.

Welcome from Workshop Co-chairs, Workshop Purpose and Goals
Danya Keene, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health
Craig Pollack, M.D., M.H.S., Katey Ayers Endowed Professor, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

12:05 p.m. – 12:20 p.m.

Introductory Remarks
Moderator: Mary Evans, Ph.D., Director, Special Projects in Nutrition, Obesity, and Digestive Diseases, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P., Director, NIDDK, NIH
Deborah Galuska, Ph.D., Associate Director of Science, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Calvin Johnson, Ph.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Monitoring, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Session One: Overview and Background—Housing, Obesity, and Health Equity
Moderator: Alison Brown, Ph.D., M.S., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH

12:20 p.m. – 12:35 p.m.

Social Determinants of Obesity Trends and Cardiovascular Health Inequities
Tiffany Powell-Wiley, M.D., M.P.H., Stadtman Investigator, Social Determinants of Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Laboratory, NHLBI, NIH, Adjunct Investigator, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), NIH

12:35 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.

Housing Insecurity, Environment, and Pathways Underlying Risk for Obesity
Kathryn Leifheit, Ph.D., M.S.P.H, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine

12:50 p.m. – 1:05 p.m.

A Personal Perspective on Housing Insecurity, Health, and Well-being
Kimberly Hart, Mothers & Others for Justice

1:05 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Q&A and Panel Discussion

Session Two: History of Housing, Structural Racism, and the Current Housing Context
Moderator: Tiana Moore, Ph.D., M.S., M.A., Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, University of California, San Francisco

1:15 p.m. – 1:35 p.m.

Current State of the Housing Sector: Affordability, Access, and Stability
Jenny Schuetz, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

1:35 p.m. – 1:55 p.m.

The Legacy of Historic and Contemporary Housing Discrimination
Derek Hyra, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy, and Director, Metropolitan Policy Center, American University

1:55 p.m. – 2:10 p.m.

Q&A and Panel Discussion

2:10 p.m. – 2:25 p.m.

Break

2:25 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.

Early-career Investigator Breakout Presentations
Note: All breakout session rooms will run concurrently

Room 1: Housing Instability, Neighborhoods and Obesity
Moderator: Alison Brown, Ph.D., M.S., NHLBI, NIH

• Examining Housing as a Determinant of Child Health: Does Housing Instability and Utility Impact Weight?
  Kiana Bess, M.P.H.; Alison Miller, Ph.D.; Rebeccah Sokol, Ph.D.; Roshanak Mehdipanah, Ph.D.

• Housing Characteristics and Obesity in a Disadvantaged Urban Youth Cohort
  Keely Cheslack-Postava, Ph.D. M.S.P.H.; Huilan Tang, M.S.; George Musa, Ph.D.; Megan Ryan, M.S.; Michaeline Bresnahan, Ph.D., M.P.H.; Lupo Geronazzo-Alman, Ph.D.; Christina Hoven, Dr.P.H., M.P.H.

• Association of Housing Instability with Obesity Status Among a Representative Sample of Insured Adults Across Seven Regional Health Plan Markets
  Morgan Clennin, Ph.D., M.P.H.; Liza Reifler, M.P.H.; Stacie Daugherty, M.D., M.S.P.H.; Mario Schootman, Ph.D.

• Are the Associations Between Neighborhood SES and BMI Modified by Individual-level Characteristics? Evidence from the Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS).
  Lauren Giurini; Loren Lipworth Ph.D.; Harvey Murff, M.D.; Wei Zheng, M.D., Ph.D.; Shaneda Warren Andersen, Ph.D.

Room 2: Innovative Methods for Studying Housing, Neighborhoods and Obesity
Moderator: Craig Pollack, M.D., M.H.S., Katey Ayers Endowed Professor, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Association Between Receipt of Housing Assistance and Measures of Food Security, Diet Quality, and Adiposity in NHANES, 1999-2019.
  Alejandra Ellison-Barnes, M.D., M.P.H.; Leah Jager, Ph.D.; Alyssa Moran, Sc.D., M.P.H., R.D.

• Rental Assistance Improves Food Security and Nutrition
  Whitney Denary, M.P.H.; Andrew Fenelon, Ph.D.; Shannon Whittaker, M.P.H.; Kasia Lipska, M.D.; Denise Esserman, Ph.D.; Danya Keene, Ph.D.

• Patterns of Neighborhood Disinvestment and Infrastructure in Jackson, MS: What Can We Learn from Google Street View?
  Stephen Mooney, Ph.D.; Dustin Fry Ph.D., M.P.H.; Jessica Whitley, M.P.H.; Deja Gantt, B.S.; Sharrelle Barber, Sc.D., M.P.H.

Room 3: Redlining and its Legacies
Moderator: Danya Keene, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health

• Cross-sectional Associations of Historical Redlining with Body Mass Index for Black and White Adults in Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (CARDIA)
  Andrea Richardson, Ph.D., M.P.H.; Tamara Dubowitz, Sc.D., M.Sc., Kirsten Beyer, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.; Yuhong Zhou, Ph.D., M.S., M.E.; Kiarri Kershaw, Ph.D., M.P.H.; Waverly Duck, Ph.D., M.Sc.; Feifei Ye, Ph.D., M.S.; Robin Beckman, M.P.H.; Penny Gordon-Larsen, Ph.D.; James Shikany, Dr.P.H.; Catarina Kiefe, Ph.D., M.D.

• Where You Live Matters: Examining the Relationship Between Historic Redlining on Contemporary Obesity Prevalence
  Marcus Andrews, M.P.H.; Tiffany Powell-Wiley, M.D., M.P.H.

• Historical Redlining and Present-Day Housing Tenure and Obesity: A Case Study of El Paso, Texas
  Sungmin Lee, Ph.D.; Chanam Lee, Ph.D., M.L.A.; Hanwool Lee, Ph.D.

• Understanding the Experiences of Black Residents in a Gentrifying Pittsburgh Neighborhood
  Alexandra Mendoza-Graf, Ph.D.; Sarah MacCarthy, Sc.D.; Rebecca Collins, Ph.D.; Tamara Dubowitz, Sc.D.

Room 4: Housing Instability, Health Behaviors, and Health Outcomes
Moderator: Jacqueline Lloyd, Ph.D., M.S.W., Office of Disease Prevention (ODP), NIH

• Associations Between Eviction, Post-Traumatic Stress, and Emergency Department Use among Low-Income Adults in New Haven, CT
  Patrick Smith, B.S.N., RN; Allison Groves, Ph.D.; Brent Langellier, Ph.D.; Danya Keene, Ph.D.; Alana Rosenberg, M.P.H.; Kim Blankenship, Ph.D.

• Association of Cost-Driven Residential Moves with Adverse Health Outcomes and Behaviors Among California’s Renters
  Katherine Chen, M.D.; Lauren Wisk, Ph.D.; Teryl Nuckols, M.D. MS; Paul Ong, Ph.D.; Ninez Ponce, Ph.D.; Kristen Choi, Ph.D.; Claudia Nau, Ph.D.; Joann Elmore, M.D., M.P.H.; Frederick Zimmerman, Ph.D.

• Sleep quality among homeless-experienced older adults: Results from the HOPE HOME study
  Cheyenne Garcia, B.A.; Karen Valle, M.Sc.; Jennifer Evans, M.S.; Margot Kushel, M.D.

• “Prescribing Housing” to Address a Social Determinant of Health
  Jamison Koeman, M.P.H.; Roshanak Mehdipanah, Ph.D.

Session Three: Introduction to Federal Housing Assistance Programs and Research Opportunities
Moderator: Danya Keene, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health

3:20 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.

Session Overview and Introductions

3:25 p.m. – 3:35 p.m.

Health and Housing—an Overview of the Policy and Research Landscape
Anna Bailey, J.D., Senior Policy Analyst, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

3:35 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Public and Assisted Housing in the United States: Key Programs and Opportunities for Research
Veronica Eva Helms Garrison, M.P.H, Social Science Analyst, Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD, and Bloomberg American Health Initiative Fellow and Dr.P.H. Candidate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

3:45 p.m. – 3:55 p.m.

Understanding the Relationship between Housing Policy and Health in the United States Using Linked Survey–Administrative Data
Andrew Fenelon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University

3:55 p.m. – 4:05 p.m.

Housing and Obesity at the Intersection of Primary Care
Earle Chambers, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director, Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

4:05 p.m. – 4:20 p.m.

Q&A and Panel Discussion

4:20 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Day 1 Wrap-up Remarks and Overview of Day 2
Nathaniel Stinson, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Director, Community Health and Population Science, NIMHD, NIH
Danya Keene, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health
Craig Pollack, M.D., M.H.S., Katey Ayers Endowed Professor, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

4:30 p.m.

Adjournment

November 15, 2022, 12:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. EST

12:00 p.m. – 12:05 p.m.

Day 2 Welcome and Overview
Danya Keene, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health
Craig Pollack, M.D., M.H.S., Katey Ayers Endowed Professor, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Session Four: Housing-focused Research Opportunities

12:05 p.m. – 12:55 p.m.

Session A: Intervening on the Built Environment: Housing and Its Neighborhood Context
Moderator: Rebekah Israel Cross,, Ph.D., Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

12:05 p.m. – 12:17 p.m.

• Combining Housing and Neighborhood-level Interventions to Address Obesity-related Health Inequities
  Ashlesha Datar, Ph.D., Senior Economist, University of Southern California Center for Economic and Social Research

12:17 p.m. – 12:29 p.m.

• A Natural Experiment Approach Looking at Neighborhood Change Over Time: The Built and Social Environment and Health Outcomes—Reports from the Field
  Tamara Dubowitz, Sc.D., M.Sc., Senior Policy Researcher, Faculty, RAND Corporation, Pardee RAND Graduate School

12:29 p.m. – 12:41 p.m.

• Understanding Local Housing Policy Levers to Advance Health Equity
  Martha Galvez, Ph.D., Executive Director, The Housing Solutions Lab, NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University

12:41 p.m. – 12:55 p.m.

• Q&A and Panel Discussion

12:55 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

Session B: Housing Support and Stability Interventions: Housing Mobility, Pathways to Home Ownership, and Emergency Rental Assistance
Moderator: Jacqueline Lloyd, Ph.D., M.S.W., Office of Disease Prevention, NIH

12:55 p.m. – 1:07 p.m.

• Housing Mobility Programs and HUD’s Community Choice Demonstration
  Leah Lozier, Ph.D., Program Evaluation Division, Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD

1:07 p.m. – 1:19 p.m.

• Helping Low-income Renters Become Homeowners through the “Make It Home” Program in Detroit
  Roshanak Mehdipanah, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan

1:19 p.m. – 1:31 p.m.

• Emergency Rental Assistance, Housing Stability, and Health Outcomes
  Claudia Aiken, M.C.P., Director of the Housing Initiative at Penn (HIP), University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design
  Cypress Marrs, Housing Research Analyst, HIP, University of Pennsylvania

1:31 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

• Q&A and Panel Discussion

1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Break

2:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.

Session C: Intersection of Housing and the Delivery of Evidence-based Obesity Interventions
Moderator: Shavon Artis Dickerson, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., NIDDK, NIH

2:00 p.m. – 2:12 p.m.

• Addressing Housing Instability and Quality-related Barriers to Engagement in Lifestyle Interventions: Experiences from the Delivery of Community-based Diabetes Prevention Programs
  Maya Venkataramani, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Associate Director of Community Program Implementation, Johns Hopkins Brancati Center for the Advancement of Community Care
  Katelyn (Kat) Dustan Stokes, Community Health Worker, Community Outreach Specialist, Johns Hopkins Brancati Center for the Advancement of Community Care

2:12 p.m. – 2:24 p.m.

• Addressing Nutrition, Food Access, and Safe Space Barriers for Public Housing Residents
  Camille Anoll-Hunter, M.P.H., M.S.W., Health Policy Manager, Council of Large Public Housing Authorities
  Andrea Mata, M.S., Director of Health Initiatives, New York City Housing Authority

2:24 p.m. – 2:36 p.m.

• Mobile Health Plus Community Health Worker Support for Weight Management among Residents Living in Public Housing Developments
  Lisa Quintiliani, Ph.D., Professor, Boston Medical Center School of Medicine, Boston University

2:36 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.

• Q&A and Panel Discussion

2:50 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.

Session D: Housing Insecurity and Obesity: Roles for Health Care Systems
Moderator: Katherine Diaz Vickery, M.D., M.Sc., Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute

2:50 p.m. – 3:02 p.m.

• Evaluation of the Masshealth Flexible Services Program to Address Food and Housing Insecurity in a Medicaid Accountable Care Organization
  Anne Thorndike, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Director, Cardiac Lifestyle Program, Massachusetts General Hospital

3:02 p.m. – 3:14 p.m.

• Housing Insecurity and Health Systems: Family, Place, and Policy-level Interventions
  Megan Sandel, M.D., Lead Principal Investigator, Boston University School of Medicine

3:14 p.m. – 3:26 p.m.

• Identifying and Addressing Health-related Social Needs in the Accountable Health Communities Model
  Kate Abowd Johnson, Ph.D., Acting Director, Division of Population Health Incentives and Infrastructure, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation

3:26 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.

• Q&A and Panel Discussion

3:40 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.

Breakout Listening Sessions

• Room A: Intervening on Housing and Its Neighborhood Context: Programs, Policies, and the Built Environment
  Moderator 1: Rebecca Campo, Ph.D., NHLBI, NIH
  Scribe 1: Layla Esposito, Ph.D., Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), NIH
  
  Moderator 2: Olga Herren, Ph.D., NIMHD, NIH
  Scribe 2: Marissa Shams-White, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH

• Room B: Housing Support and Stability Interventions: Housing Mobility, Pathways to Home Ownership, and Emergency Rental Assistance
  Moderator 1: Jenna Norton, Ph.D., NIDDK, NIH
  Scribe 1: Elizabeth Vogt, M.P.H., ODP, NIH
  
  Moderator 2: David Berrigan, Ph.D., M.P.H., NCI, NIH
  Scribe 2: Liberty Walton, M.P.H., ODP, NIH

• Room C: Delivering Evidence-based Obesity Interventions in the Housing Context
  Moderator 1: Laurie Donze, Ph.D., NHLBI, NIH
  Scribe 1: Barbara Linder, M.D., Ph.D., NIDDK, NIH
  
  Moderator 2: Regina Bures, Ph.D., NICHD, NIH
  Scribe 2: Rebekah Van Raaphorst, M.P.H., NIDDK, NIH

• Room D: Housing Insecurity and Obesity: Roles for Health Care Systems
  Moderator: Yewande Oladeinde, Ph.D., NIMHD, NIH
  Scribe 1: Raquel Greer, M.D., M.H.S., NIDDK, NIH
  
  Moderator 2: Saira Mehmood, Ph.D., NIDDK, NIH
  Scribe 2: Vanessa White, M.P.H., NIDDK, NIH

4:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Research Gaps and Opportunities and Closing Remarks

4:30 p.m

Adjournment

Abstracts

Submission Deadline

October 24, 2022

Abstract Submission Instructions

Abstracts for presentations are encouraged, but not required, to present obesity- or weight-related outcomes. They should, however, have potential relevance to obesity as broadly defined and include obesity-related behaviors—such as dietary intake, sedentary behavior, physical activity, and sleep—as well as other underlying behavioral, psychosocial, contextual, and structural factors that are related to or that influence the risk for obesity.

Abstracts should focus broadly on the role of housing, housing insecurity, and neighborhood context. Examples may include topics related to federal, state, and local housing policy; screening for housing-related social needs in health care settings; and tailoring existing interventions to address housing-related social needs. Abstracts may span a wide range of study designs—including epidemiologic investigations, interventional research, and qualitative and ethnographic studies—and a variety of disciplinary perspectives (for example, public health, medicine, behavioral and social sciences). Abstracts of interest are those that focus on diverse populations across all stages of the life course and in diverse geographic settings (i.e., urban versus rural). Global health research with relevance to housing and obesity is also welcome.

Submitting Abstracts

All abstracts must be submitted via email to John Hare, with “Workshop on Housing and Obesity” in the subject line. The abstract submission should be a one-page Microsoft Word document that does not exceed 250 words (not including the abstract’s title and name and affiliation of all authors).

Presenters are welcome to submit abstracts previously presented in other venues, including work that has been delivered at other conferences or published within the past 2 years. If the work has been published, please include a full citation and a link to the paper.

Abstract Organization

Organize the body of the abstract as follows:

• Purpose—Concisely state the objective of the study.
• Methods—Describe the methods, which may include study design, setting, participants, measures, and analytic approach.
• Results—Summarize the main findings in sufficient detail to support the conclusion.
• Conclusions—Briefly state the conclusions and implications. For studies that do not address obesity directly, be sure to indicate the potential relevance for obesity.

The abstract’s word count is limited to no more than 250 words.

Formatting Requirements

Please follow the instructions below to format an abstract. (Note: Submissions will not be edited for spelling or grammar and will be accepted “as is.”)

• The abstract should be a Microsoft Word document with 1-inch margins, typed single space, and using Times New Roman font; a 12-point font should be used for everything except the title.
• The abstract’s title should be typed in Title Case using bold 16-point font and should clearly represent the nature of the investigation.
• List the author’s first and last names, degree, affiliation, city, and state. If more than one author is listed, include complete information for all authors and underline the presenting author’s name.
• Please ensure that your abstract is the correct length (no longer than 250 words).
• One table or figure may be included; however, the abstract may not be longer than one page, including the table or figure.
• The abstract file name should follow this format: primary author’s LastName_FirstWordOfTitle (e.g., Zucker_Effects).

Research Presentations

Presentations will be conducted virtually during the workshop, with approximately 8 minutes to present and 2 minutes for questions and answers.

All presenters must register in advance for the conference. Registration is free.