Westat staff will present at the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2025 Annual Meeting and Expo, which will be held November 2–5 in Washington, DC. The event convenes nearly 13,000 public health professionals from around the world to share research and discuss strategies for advancing health. This year’s meeting theme, Making the Public’s Health a National Priority, will inform sessions and presentations.
Westat staff, shown in bold, were part of the research teams that contributed to the following presentations. View the APHA 2025 Annual Meeting and Expo program to learn more.
Sunday, November 2
3:00–4:00 pm
Jordan Stangle, Catherine Heresy, Meg Tucker, Nicole Harlaar, Diana Cassar-Uhl, Caitlin Cross-Barnet, Jennifer Morone, and Martha Sibley. Peer Recovery Support Services for Pregnant and Postpartum Patients With OUD: Lessons Learned From the MOM Model.
5:00–6:00 pm
Lisa Clemans-Cope, Caitlin Cross-Barnet, Jordan Stangle, Diana Cassar-Uhl, Meg Tucker, Nicole Harlaar, Jennifer Morone, and Martha Sibley. Changes in the Opioid Landscape and Its Influence on MOM Model Implementation.
Monday, November 3
10:55–11:00 am
Diana Cassar-Uhl, Jennifer Morone, Meg Tucker, Andrew Bryant, Caitlin Cross-Barnet, and Martha Sibley. Patient Experiences: Health-Related Social Needs in the MOM Model Patient Population.
Tuesday, November 4
10:30–11:30 am
Diana Cassar-Uhl, Meg Tucker, Andrew Bryant, Jordan Stangle, Caitlin Cross-Barnet, Jennifer Morone, and Martha Sibley. Using We All Count Analytic Method Scores to Inform Evaluation and Improvement Efforts in the CMS MOM Model.
Amanda Edelman, Eva Sharma, Jennifer Edwards, MeLisa Creamer, John K Kingsbury, Heather Kimmel, Chelsea McKinney, LaTasha Swanson, Aaron Blakney, Debra Stark, Cristine Delnevo, and Andrew Hyland. Misclassification Between Electronic Nicotine Products and Heated Tobacco Products: A Qualitative Study.
Melissa Gliner, Christopher Duke, Jennifer Edwards, Kevin Baier, Talia Spark, and Rachel Neenan. Mental Health Treatment Need and Availability Among Active-Duty Service Members and Their Families: Findings From the Health Care Survey of Department of Defense Beneficiaries.
Eva Sharma, Amanda Edelman, Jennifer Edwards, MeLisa Creamer, John K Kingsbury, Heather Kimmel, Chelsea McKinney, LaTasha Swanson, Aaron Blakney, Debra Stark, Cristine Delnevo, and Andrew Hyland. Misclassification Between Nicotine Pouches and Smokeless and Snus Pouches: A Qualitative Study.
Kevin Wilson, John Riddles, Andrew Hill, Elizabeth Bassett, Mengshi Zhou, Michelle Barron, Catia Chavez, Rahul Shrivastava, Anil Battalahalli, Daniel Chacreton, Ethan Moran, Elizabeth Rowley, Zachary Weber, Lawrence Reichle, Sarah Ball, and Toan Ong. Improvements in Identification of Respiratory Virus Immunization Using Rule-Based Natural Language Processing.
11:15–11:30 am
George Mensah, Maliha Ilias, Gniesha Y Dinwiddie, Vanessa Marshall, Bryan Ampey, Karen Plevock Haase, Mary Masterson, Kimberly Durkin, Erynn Huff, Chanza Baytop, Nancy Hood, Amy Ubesie, Gabriel Anaya, Nathan Stinson Jr., and Eliseo Pérez-Stable.Addressing the U.S. Burden of Chronic Diseases and Risks: The Crucial Role of NIH Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL).
2:30–4:00 pm
Vivian Towe, Heather Angier, Ursula Running Bear, Juan Villamar, Regina Ortiz, and Tammy Calise. Why Community-Engaged Research Is Critical to Improving Community Health.
5:00–5:15 pm
Amy Artuso and Adele Polson. New and Unique Electronic Data Collection With Census Overlay to Advance Child Occupant Protection in Motor Vehicles.