Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Research Week poster awards!

Center Prizes

Center for Health Policy and Research
Gul Rukh Mehboob
Poster title: Impact of COVID-19 related emergency funds on Hospital Margins: A rural-urban comparison

Clinical Trials Statistical & Data Management Center
Megan McCabe
Poster title: Estimating Power under Differences in Placebo Response in a Platform Trial

Global Public Health Initiative
Priyanka Dubey
Poster title: Menstrual health and hygiene among transgender and non-binary populations: A global systematic review

Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest
Rawan Hassanain
Poster title: Strategies and Challenges for Recruiting Negative Control Participants in a Healthcare Workers’ COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance Program

Injury Prevention Research Center
Gilsu Pae
Poster title: Identifying risk factors related to older driver crash culpability in Iowa, 2010 to 2020

Institute for Public Health Practice
Devin Spolsdoff
Poster title: Sexual Education Inclusive of LGBQ Relationships: cross-sectional associations with Violence in LGBQ Youth

Institute for Public Health Practice, Research and Policy
Gawain Williams
Poster title: Rural Urban Cancer Incidence in the United States, 2015-2019

Prevention Research Center for Rural Health
Khyathi Gadag
Poster title: Assessment of Social Needs in Iowa Rural Hospitals: Content Analysis of Community Health Needs Assessments

RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy
Khyathi Gadag
Poster title: Impact of Offering Telemental Health Service on Mental Health Services Utilization in Federally Qualified Health Centers

State Health Registry of Iowa/Iowa Cancer Registry (SHRI/ICR)
Vanessa Siebert
Poster title: Evaluating the Optimal Number of Cycles of Bendamustine as Initial Chemoimmunotherapy for Follicular Lymphoma

Collegiate Prizes

Undergraduate Public Health Poster
Eliza Waage
Poster Title: What’s Your Flavor? Vapes, energy drinks, and queer identity on TikTok

Research Week General Submission Posters
Nafis Md Irfan
Poster Title: Effect of Alamandine on Isoproterenol-Induced Left Ventricular Dysfunction, Cardiac Remodeling and Immune Responses in Rat

Max Waugh
Poster Title: Dermal Immune Environment in Progressive Stages of Canine Leishmaniosis

Morgan Wolff
Poster Title: Diet and Health Behaviors Associated with Osteoarthritis Knee Pain During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST)

And thank you to all the poster presenters who attended! Below is a list of participants and their poster topics.

Morning Session

Abdinasir Ali
The Effect of the Expanded Child Tax Credit of 2021 on Mental Health of Home Renters   

Lastascia Coleman
A Conceptual Model for Alternative Payment Models in Maternity Care

Priyanka Dubey
Menstrual health and hygiene among transgender and non-binary populations: A global systematic review

Khyathi Gadag
Assessment of Social Needs in Iowa Rural Hospitals: Content Analysis of Community Health Needs Assessments

Rebeca Galindo
Parenting styles and driving under the influence of cannabis (DUIC) among U.S. adolescents

Rawan Hassanain
Strategies and Challenges for Recruiting Negative Control Participants in a Healthcare Workers’ COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance Program

Megan McCabe
Estimating Power under Differences in Placebo Response in a Platform Trial

Gilsu Pae
Identifying risk factors related to older driver crash culpability in Iowa, 2010 to 2020

Eliza Waage
What’s Your Flavor? Vapes, energy drinks, and queer identity on TikTok

Afternoon Session

Sofie Dollison
Examination of Instructor Opinions on Student Disability Accommodations at the University of Iowa

Darby Forsyth
Effect of Extreme Heat on Systemic Inflammatory Response

Khyathi Gadag
Impact of Offering Telemental Health Service on Mental Health Services Utilization in Federally Qualified Health Centers

MM Hasibuzzaman
CPH:SA IL-1α Microparticles Enhances the Abscopal Effect of Radiotherapy

Ishrat Nourin Khan
Association of Nuclear Interleukin-1 alpha Expression with Head and Neck Tumor Aggression

Dongkeun Lee
Characterization and Role of Exosomal Release in Lung Epithelial Cells Following Exposure to Polystyrene Nanoplastics: Implications for Extracellular Nanoparticle Transport and Cellular Toxicity

Carly Mahoney
Interactive Cancer Mapping Tool for Small Geographic Regions

Nafis Md Irfan
Effect of Alamandine on Isoproterenol-Induced Left Ventricular Dysfunction, Cardiac Remodeling and Immune Responses in Rat

Gul Rukh
Impact of COVID-19 related emergency funds on Hospital Margins: A rural-urban comparison

Danielle Pessoa Pereira
Borrelia burgdorferi modulates Leishmania infantum-infected canine macrophage redox and inflammatory profile

Md Abu Eabrahim Siddique
Chronic Arsenic Exposure is Linked to the Features of Allergic Asthma and Dysregulated Th2 Cytokines

Vanessa Siebert
Evaluating the Optimal Number of Cycles of Bendamustine as Initial Chemoimmunotherapy for Follicular Lymphoma

Jamie Sorensen
Experiences of weight stigma during cancer treatment: A qualitative study

Devin Spolsdoff
Sexual Education Inclusive of LGBQ Relationships: cross-sectional associations with Violence in LGBQ Youth

Max Waugh
Dermal Immune Environment in Progressive Stages of Canine Leishmaniosis

Gawain Williams
Rural Urban Cancer Incidence in the United States, 2015-2019

Erin Wissler Gerdes
Clinical trial knowledge, discussion, and participation among cancer survivors: A HINTS-SEER study

Morgan Wolff
Diet and Health Behaviors Associated with Osteoarthritis Knee Pain During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST)