Research

Presentations from the 2018 STD Prevention Conference

2018 STD Prevention Conference

Click on the title of the presentations below to watch an archived video from the conference.

Debate: Should Health Departments Stop Active Surveillance and Partner Services for Chlamydia?

PRO
Joan Chow, DrPH, MPH
California Department of Public Health, CA

CON
William Miller, MD, PhD
The Ohio State University, OH

The Population-Level Impact of Screening Women for Chlamydia

Minttu Ronn, PhD
Prevention Policy Modeling Lab, Department of Global Health and Population
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Can Differences in Sexual Behavior Explain Racial Disparities in Chlamydia Prevalence among Young Women?

Patricia Dittus, PhD
Division of STD Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

EXTRA-GENITAL GONORRHEA (GC) AND CHLAMYDIA (CT) SCREENING—A SUCCESS STORY FROM LOUISIANA

Mohammad Rahman, PhD, MBBS, MPH
STD/HIV Program, Louisiana Office of Public Health, New Orleans, LA

RETESTING RATES AFTER A POSITIVE CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS TEST RESULT: EXPERIENCE FROM A LARGE CLINICAL LABORATORY

Sheila Waters, RN, MSN
Director, Women’s Health/Oncology—Medical Affairs
Quest Diagnostics

PREDICTORS OF REPEAT GONORRHEA AND/OR CHLAMYDIA INFECTION IN A POPULATION OF MEN-WHO-HAVE-SEX-WITH-MEN (MSM) IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY

Laura Anderson, MPH
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA

Short message system (SMS) reminders for re-testing among female STD clinic patients with gonorrhea or chlamydia

Christine Khosropour, MPH
Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

LEVERAGING DISEASE INVESTIGATION SPECIALISTS TO IMPROVE CHLAMYDIA AND GONORRHEA TREATMENT AMONG YOUTH RELEASED FROM JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERS IN NEW YORK CITY, 2016

Diana Sanchez, PhD, MPH
Bureau of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Long Island City, NY

The Customer is Often Right: Innovative Solutions in the Local Public Health Laboratory

Godfred Masinde, PhD, MBA, HCLD (ABB), DRI (CA)
San Francisco Department of Public Health Laboratory
San Francisco, CA

ESTIMATES OF CHLAMYDIA INCIDENCE AMONG US MEN AND WOMEN IN 2016 BASED ON A BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODEL

Emanuele Mazzola, PhD
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA

AN APPROACH TO ESTIMATING THE EXPECTED NUMBER OF RECTAL CHLAMYDIA AND GONORRHEA INFECTIONS AMONG MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN—NEW YORK CITY, 2016

Jennifer Slutsker, MPH
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
New York, NY

Optimizing the Impact of Expedited Partner Therapy

Julie Schillinger, MD, MSc
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
New York, NY

TRENDS IN THE PREVALENCE OF CHLAMYDIA IN WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES, 2001-2016

Kristen Kreisel, PhD
Surveillance and Data Management Branch, Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA