News & Press https://www.aptrweb.org/news/default.asp Sun, 10 May 2026 10:19:17 GMT Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:39:26 GMT Copyright © 2021 Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) Congratulations 2021 Student Poster Winners! https://www.aptrweb.org/news/news.asp?id=556076 https://www.aptrweb.org/news/news.asp?id=556076

Congratulations to the following 2021 Student Posters Awardees. Poster presenters provided a video overview of their poster topic to accompany their poster.

1st Place

Adaptations to a mass vaccination event by a student-run free clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Thomas Agostini, Gabrielle Young, Preston Walker—CARES Free Clinic at Medical University of South Carolina

 

2nd Place

Sociodemographic and Regional Disparities in the Prevalence of Self-Reported History of Coronary Heart Disease among Persons 18 Years and Over in the United States

  • Frantz D. Soiro—Morehouse School of Medicine

 

3rd Place

Life During COVID-19: The Student Experience

  • Julianne LaRosa, Cierrah Doran, Amanda Guth—Thomas Jefferson University
]]> Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:39:26 GMT Teaching Prevention 2021 Program Posted https://www.aptrweb.org/news/news.asp?id=483541 https://www.aptrweb.org/news/news.asp?id=483541 APTR is excited to release the program details for Teaching Prevention 2021: Promoting Adaptability, Resiliency, & Sustainability; March 8-10, 2021.

This virtual APTR annual meeting provides an opportunity to build your professional network from across the academic prevention community. Faculty from medicine, public health, and other health professions focus on the knowledge, skills, collaborations, and resources needed to teach, practice, and promote population health improvement. During Teaching Prevention, the academic prevention community will explore initiatives and share efforts across institutions, disciplines, and professions to advance innovative teaching, research, practice, and evaluation in prevention.

View program details at www.teachingprevention.org/program.

Discounted registration rates end February 1, 2021

]]> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:58:10 GMT Teaching Prevention 2015 Comes to a Close https://www.aptrweb.org/news/news.asp?id=223084 https://www.aptrweb.org/news/news.asp?id=223084 The APTR Annual meeting - Teaching Prevention 2015: Connect. Motivate. Innovate. Educate, held March 15-17, brought together health professions faculty to network and advance population health education.After the meeting kick-off on Sunday, attendees engaged in dialogue and discussion during the Training Prevention Champions Workshop.Mark S Sothmann, PhD; Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of the Medical College of South Carolina welcomed attendees to Charleston during the Monday opening plenary session. The opening plenary highlighted prevention initiatives underway in South Carolina and dynamic discussion around what types of partnerships can improve health outcomes.

With a dynamic agenda, Teaching Prevention 2015 showcased a talented group of presenters. During the 2015 APTR Awards Luncheon, individuals were honored for advancing population health education. APTR would like to thank the Medical College of South Carolina for its sponsorship of the luncheon. Congratulations to this year's winners.

During the Welcome Reception and Poster Presentation student and faculty presented posters on a variety of topics. Thank you to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston for its sponsorship of the reception. Congratulations to the student poster recipients of the Certificate of achievement.

  • Kyle Morgenstern, Medical Student, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
  • Jaleen D. Sims, MPH, Medical Student, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Thank you to all of our honored guests, moderators, speakers, sponsors, and attendees. Finally, APTR would like to thank the annual meeting chair Sabrina Neeley, MPH, PhD, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, and the entire annual meeting planning committee for all of their support and hard work.

 

]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:32:10 GMT Healthy People 2020 Webinar on Environmental Health and Tobacco Use https://www.aptrweb.org/news/news.asp?id=205599 https://www.aptrweb.org/news/news.asp?id=205599 Join the upcoming Healthy People 2020 webinar exploring progress in the Environmental Health and Tobacco Use topic areas on Friday, December 5 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET. Free continuing education credits (CME, CNE, CHES) are available!

This 90-minute webinar will be led by the ActingAssistant Secretary for Health, Dr. Karen DeSalvo, who will be joined by experts from CDC and NIH. We'll also highlight the work of Live Smoke Free in St. Paul, MN, and its focus on smoke-free multi-housing units.

Register Today! ]]> Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:30:02 GMT