GPHA Annual Meeting and Conference

Thanks to everyone who attended the 2024 Georgia Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Conference. We had a great turnout, wonderful speakers, workshops, and poster presentations, tons of opportunities for networking and meeting exhibitors, and a lot of fun, too.

We need your feedback!

If you attended the conference, please complete the conference evaluation at the link below. Your feedback will help us design an even better conference for next year. The link will remain open until May 31st.

–> GPHA 2024 Conference Evaluation

Congratulations to all of our 2024 GPHA Award Winners!

  • Al Dohany Community Service Award: Danielle Sayre
  • Kathy Milner Health Education and Promotion Award: Mecca Mason
  • Jules S. Terry Memorial Award: Valerie Fraley
  • Fred Agel Governance Award: Chris Tsavatewa, DSc, MP
  • Academic Section Award: Sherry Farr
  • Communications Excellence Award: Valerie Crow
  • Rosemarie B. Newman Nutrition Extra Mile Award: Lisa Murray
  • Administration Outstanding Service Award: Melinda Bryant
  • Applied Epidemiologist of the Year Award: Mareike Haaren
  • Stancliff Boone Communicable Disease Specialist Award: Marie Paul-David
  • Environmental Health Specialist of the Year Award: Gina Smith
  • Early Career Environmental Health Specialist of the Year Award: Linda Marrazzo
  • J. Patrick O’Neal Safety and Health Preparedness Award: Susan Beckham
  • Maggie Kline Nursing Award: Virginia Russell
  • Ruth B. Freeman Nursing Award for Population Health: Chrissa Shaffer
  • Lillian D. Wald Public Health Nursing Award: Lupita Maria Trejo Lozaro
  • Barfield Nursing Award: Kimberly Allen, MS, PhD
  • President Award Recipients: Angie Peden, MPH
  • Sellars-McCroan Award Recipients: Team Members of Georgia Public Health Laboratories, 2020-2023

Submit Your Presentation Materials

Did you present at the 2024 GPHA Annual Meeting and Conference? Please consider submitting your presentation materials to Digital Commons.

Why submit your presentation? More exposure for your work! Presentations are searchable through Google, and you will receive reports showing how many people have downloaded your presentation.

Digital Commons @ Georgia Southern hosts the official archive of the GPHA Conference, which is available here. We invite you to submit your presentation materials for publication in the archive. To do so, please complete this form and within the form, attach any files you would like to make publicly available. Please note that this is a Google form. If you are not logged into Google, you will need to sign in but you can use any email address. Should you have any difficulty using the form, please contact digitalcommons@georgiasouthern.edu and we will gladly assist you.

Please note: All materials made publicly available are required to include a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. Under this license, end users may share and privately adapt your work, but they must give you credit for it and ask your permission to distribute any adaptations they make or use your work for any commercial purpose. When you send us your materials for posting, you agree to apply the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license to your work.

If you have any questions or concerns about licensing your work, please contact us or indicate this in the form when you submit your materials. Otherwise, we will proceed with posting your materials using this license.

Medicine (CME) Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the Georgia Public Health Association.  The APHA is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Designation Statement: The APHA designates this live educational activity for a maximum of 14.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit (s)™.   

Nursing (CNE) Accreditation Statement

This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the American Public Health Association’s Public Health Nursing Section Approver Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Health Education (CHES) Statement

Sponsored by the American Public Health Association (APHA), a designated approver of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES®) to receive up to 14.5 total Category I contact education contact hours.