8:30 a.m.     Registration: Coffee and breakfast served

9:05 a.m.     Opening Remarks

• Jamie Gajos, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  
  

9:15 a.m.     Opening Keynote

• Joel Caplan, PhD, Rutgers University & Simsi
  "From Gun Violence to Epilepsy to Food Deserts: An Introduction to RTM Methods and its Evolution through Actionable Research"

9:45 a.m.     Coffee Break & Networking

9:55 a.m.     Panel #1: Presentations followed by moderated Q&A 

• J. Sunil Rao, PhD, Director of Biostatistics, Masonic Comprehensive Cancer Center, Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, University of Minnesota
  "Risk stratification by contextual vulnerability for drug overdose deaths in King County, Washington: New implications for prevention" 
• Kim Lersch, PhD, School of Information, University of South Florida
  "Analyzing drug overdoses in the City of Detroit, Michigan"

10:50 a.m.     Coffee Break & Networking

11:00 a.m.     Panel #2: Presentations followed by moderated Q&A

• Dahianna López, PhD, MSN, MPH, College of Nursing, University of Rhode Island
  "Analysis of the Influence of Microenvironmental Features on Bicycle Crashes in Manhattan"
• Jennifer Hernandez-Meier, PhD, MSW, Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin
  "Using RTM to Enhance the Cardiff Model for Violence Prevention" 
  
  

11:55 a.m.     Campus Welcome & Lunch

• Irfan Asif, MD, Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Heersink Endowed Professorship in Sports and Exercise Medicine, UAB 
  "Combating Physical Inactivity for the Prevention of Cardiometabolic Disease" 
  
  

1:05 p.m.     Panel #3: Presentations followed by moderated Q&A

• Jamie Gajos, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UAB
  "Geographically-Explicit Ecological Momentary Assessments to Examine Alcohol Use in Adults Experiencing Homelessness"
• Phillip Marotta, PhD, MPH, Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis
  "Risk Terrain Modeling for the Allocation of Overdose Response Resources: A Case Study of St. Louis, Missouri USA"
  
  

2:00 p.m.     Coffee Break & Networking

2:10 p.m.     Presentations 

• Christopher Morrison, PhD, MPH, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
  "The Role of Spatial Data and Place-Based Analytics for Epidemiology and Injury Prevention"
• Hans Menos, PhD, LCSW, Public Safety Innovations at Center for Policing Equity
  "Brokering research to action; Community-focused engagement; Spatial equity; Intersections of public health and public safety" 
  
  

2:55 p.m.    Coffee Break & Networking

3:05 p.m.     Closing Keynote

• Leslie Kennedy, PhD, Rutgers University & Simsi
  "Reflections, Future Directions and Next Steps for RTM"
  
  

3:25 p.m.     Final Remarks and Takeaways