UCLA Fielding School of Public Health at the 2026 APHA Meeting & Expo: "Together We Thrive: Health Across the Lifespan"

The 2026 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo will be held from:

November 1 – November 4, 2026, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty, students, staff, and graduates will attend and present at the 2026 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas: “Together We Thrive: Health Across the Lifespan."

As the largest public health gathering of the year, APHA’s Annual Meeting and Expo convenes approximately 11,000 public health professionals and partners from around the world. The Public Health Expo will be held from Sunday, November 1 until Tuesday, November 3.

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Visit the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (booth # 2119) at the 2026 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo. The Public Health Expo will be held from Sunday, Nov. 1 until Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2025. For a complete list of sessions at the 2026 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, click here. Sharing photos on social media? Please tag #UCLAFielding.

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Note that what is listed below are only some of the events and sessions where the UCLA Fielding community will be present. Please check the APHA website for the latest information.

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty, staff, and student sessions, by day and time:

Sunday, November 1, 2026

• 1-2 pm: Informed, clandestine, hesitant, or disenfranchised: How women make sense of PrEP in the context of intimate partner violence; Laurel Sharpless
• 1-2 pm; Preparing public health students for artificial intelligence tools: Equity and training gaps in applied practice experiences; Sarah Blenner, Maayan Epstein
• 2:30-4 pm: 2016.0 - Strategic insights from student-led rebranding and social marketing to promote community-engaged public health practice; Sarah Blenner
• 3-4 pm: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and CD4/CD8 ratio variation among Men who have Sex with Men (MSM): Role of depression and HIV status; Matthew Mimiaga
• 4:30-4:45 pm: 2071.3 - Public health impacts of antizionism and Jew-hatred; Sarah Blenner
• 5-6 pm: Modification and validation of the teen vaccine hesitancy scale toward vaccines for adolescents; Onyebuchi Arah, Annette Regan
• 5:30-5:45 pm: 2089.0 - Centering intersectional identities in suicide prevention for adolescent dating violence survivors; Laurel Sharpless

Monday, November 2, 2026

• 12:30-1:30 pm: Exploring the role of housing and employment in long-term services and supports (LTSS) policy: Case studies of adults with disabilities in California; Angelica Barrios, Isabela Cruz-Vespa, Araceli Hernandez, Kathryn Kietzman, Daisy Saucedo, Angelica Sanchez-Gomez
• 12:30-2 pm: 3129.0 - If not Federal datasets, then what?; Ninez Ponce
• 12:30-1:30 pm: Ambient ozone exposure and school absenteeism among California youth; Michael Jerrett, Ninez Ponce, Yu Yu, Xinyu Zhang
• 2:30-3:30 pm: Re-envisioning typologies for Asian Americans: A qualitative analysis of public comments on Federal Asian race and ethnicity standards; Susan Babey, Tara Becker, Ninez Ponce, AJ Scheitler, Riti Shimkhada
• 2:50-3:10 pm: 3152.0 - Raids, fear, and forgone care: A longitudinal panel study of ICE enforcement exposure and health outcomes in Los Angeles County, 2024-2025; Randall Kuhn

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

• 9-9:15 am: 4114.0 - Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and oral manifestations among Men who Have Sex with Men (MSM): Role of depression, substance use, and HIV status; Matthew Mimiaga
• 10:30-11:30 am: Health-related quality of life (QoL) changes after initiating GLP-1 therapy among people living with HIV; Onyebuchi Arah, Roger Detels, Matthew Mimiaga, Gilda Noori, Roxana Rezai, Connor Wright, Elizabeth Yonko
• 10:30-11:30 am: Gun Violence Restraining Orders as a tool for IPV prevention: Lessons from California stakeholders; Jennifer Wagman
• 12:30-1 pm: Exploring mechanisms underlying hurricane exposure and mental health; Dana Rose Garfin, Kyeongwon Kim, Soheil Shapouri
• 12:30-1:30 pm: Association of NHPI-specific tobacco cessation service utilization with smoking quit outcomes among Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander (NHPI) adults in California; Ninez Ponce
• 12:30-1:30 pm: If I must die: Public health, power, and Palestine; Randall Kuhn, Roxana Rezai
• 12:30-1:30 pm: Rethinking capacity in an aging nation: A functional, rights‑protective blueprint for conservatorship reform; Sophia Kangavari
• 2:30-3:30 pm: Racial and ethnic differences in predictors of postpartum hemorrhage: The roles of prior preterm birth and primiparity; Anaiah Brown
• 4:30-6 pm: 4195.0 - American Journal of Public Health Supplement Session: HIV prevention, care continuum, and health outcomes among Hispanic people in the US and Puerto Rico; Elizabeth Yonko
• 5-5:15 pm: 4216.0 - School-based restorative justice implemented with high support may be promising for mental health among Black and Hispanic dating violence girl survivors; Laurel Sharpless
• 5:30-5:45 pm: 4195.0 - Stepped-care interventions and Latinx health equity: Findings from the Positive STEPS study; Elizabeth Yonko

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• 8:30-10 am: 5060.0 - Silence as survival: A mediation analysis of microaggressions, intimate partner violence, and suicide risk in Black women; Laurel Sharpless, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
• 10:45-11 am: 5108.0 - A One Health database project for investigating the impact of TCDD in Vietnam; Sudipto Banerjee, Ondine S. Ehrenstein

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For more information, see: APHA's 2026 Annual Meeting and Expo website