2024 NEEMA Meeting

At a glance

Annual meetings for the NCHHSTP Epidemiologic and Economic Modeling Agreement offer educational sessions, network opportunities, and the latest resources to improve the effectiveness of public health programs and activities.

Jul 30 - Aug 2, 2024

9:00 AM - 3:30 PM ET

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Rd
Atlanta GA, 30329

Meeting agenda

TB Day: Tuesday, July 30, 2024

9:30am-4:30pm
TB Day (Hosted by DTBE)
Contact Suzanne Marks for additional details

Day 1: Wednesday, July 31, 2024

9:00am-9:30am
Jonathan Mermin
Welcome and Introduction
9:30am-10:00am
Taiwo Abimbola
Decade of NEEMA presentation
10:00am-10:15am
Break

TB

10:15am-11:45am
Carla Winston
  • Expanding eligibility for TB screening to Medicare eligible population, Yunfei Li
  • The impact, costs, and cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis outbreak investigation in the United States: A model-based analysis, Sourya Shrestha
  • Variations by race/ethnicity in the population attributable fractions associated with key risk factors of TB transmission in the United States, Meha Ahmed and Sourya Shrestha
  • Optimal domestic and global approaches for United States TB elimination, Nick Menzies
11:45am-1:15pm
Lunch

Viral hepatitis

1:15pm-2:45pm
Amy Sandul
  • Estimating hepatitis C virus infection in the United States, 2017–2020, Eric Hall and Heather Bradley
  • Viral hepatitis funding landscape, Eric Hall and Amanda Honeycutt
  • Assessing COVID-19 pandemic impacts on people who inject drugs (PWID) health using a novel data sharing model and meta-analysis, Heather Bradley
  • Evaluating the health and economic impacts of reducing racial and insurance disparities in the hepatitis B care cascade, David Hutton
2:45pm-3:00pm
Wrap-up
3:00pm-3:10pm
Break/transition to closed breakout session
3:10pm-3:55pm
PPIO
TB and Viral Hepatitis breakout sessions
  • Recipients (20 minutes)
  • Divisions (20 minutes)
  • PPIO wrap-up (5 minutes)
3:55pm-4:05pm
Break/transition between closed breakout session
4:05pm-4:50pm
PPIO
TB and Viral Hepatitis breakout sessions
  • Recipients (20 minutes)
  • Divisions (20 minutes)
  • PPIO wrap-up (5 minutes)
5:30pm-7:30pm
Dinner (Sri Thai – Emory Point)

Day 2: August 1, 2024

9:00am-9:05am
PPIO
Welcome and introduction
9:05am-10:35am
Michelle Van Handel
Cross-cutting and Adolescent Health
  • Evaluating preventive healthcare policy change on health outcomes (Braidwood), Joshua Salomon
  • Evaluating the impact of integrated services for people who inject drugs using local surveillance and program data, Marissa Reitsma
  • Impact of COVID-19 school learning modality policies on mental health, substance use, and violence related behaviors and victimization among U.S. high school students, David Katz and Sanjana Pampati
  • How Covid 19 -related school closures have impacted STI transmission among High School students in the US, David Katz
  • Overview of the Prevention Policy Modeling Lab (PPML) adolescent health projects, Joshua Salomon
10:35am-10:45am
Break

STD

10:45am-12:15pm
Tom Gift
  • Network Epidemiology of Syphilis Transmission Study (NEST): descriptive analysis, Kevin Maloney
  • Improving interpretation and use of surveillance data for antimicrobial resistant N. gonorrhoeae, Kirsten Oliveira Roster
  • Predictive modeling for targeting and surveillance of STDs, Minttu Ronn
  • The role of prenatal care in congenital syphilis prevention in the United States: a mathematic modeling analysis, Minttu Ronn
12:15pm-1:45pm
Lunch

HIV

1:45pm-3:15pm
Liz DiNenno
  • Growth in sexual and gender minority status in the US: measuring relations to behavior and implications for HIV/STI prevention and care, Mike Barry
  • Achievement of ending the HIV epidemic (EHE) Goals in the Southern US through scale-up of available interventions: a simulation study, Deven Hamilton
  • Estimating the annual number of HIV tests conducted and HIV testing targets in the United States, Minttu Ronn
  • Estimation of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) need among demographic strata, Minttu Ronn
3:15pm-3:30pm
Wrap-up
3:30pm-3:40pm
Break/transition to closed breakout session
3:40pm-4:25pm
PPIO
STD and HIV breakout sessions
  • Recipients (20 minutes)
  • Divisions (20 minutes)
  • PPIO (5 minutes)
4:25pm-4:35pm
Break/transition between closed breakout session
4:35pm-5:10pm
PPIO
STD and HIV breakout sessions
  • Recipients (20 minutes)
  • Divisions (20 minutes)
  • PPIO (5 minutes)

Day 3: August 2, 2024 (open to NCHHSTP NEEMA collaborators)

9:00am-10:30pm
Cecily Campbell
NEEMA 2.0: Reflections on successes, lessons learned, and challenges
10:30am-11:00am
Tamika Hoyte
NEEMA 2.0 grant closeout
11:00am-11:15am
Break
11:15am-12:15pm
Angie Estadt
NEEMA PWID modeling meeting
12:30pm-1:45pm
PPIO and Recipients group lunch (General Muir)
1:45pm-2:30pm
Taiwo Abimbola
Management and coordination meeting (PIs/Program Directors meeting with PPIO)

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