2012 National STD Prevention Conference

Theme Contest Winners

THANK YOU

The advisory committee of the 2012 National STD Prevention Conference would like to thank everyone who submitted ideas for themes for our first ever National STD Prevention Conference theme contest! We were impressed both by the diverse, thoughtful, and creative entries and by the many places and sectors from which you hail. 178 entries were received from people all over the world, including people who work for federal, state, or local governments; at non-profit or for-profit health-promoting and service agencies; within educational institutions and hospitals; and from members of the general public with an interest in STD prevention. Ultimately, the winning theme was selected by the 2012 National STD Prevention Conference Advisory Committee, which is comprised of leaders in the fields of STD and HIV prevention, health systems and services delivery, and social, behavioral, and biomedical science.

Your passion for STD prevention is clear. Again, thank you.

And The Winner Is...

Jessica Ladd, a recent MPH graduate from John Hopkins, submitted the winning theme for the 2012 National STD Prevention Conference. The 2012 conference theme will be STD Prevention Innovation: Solutions in an Era of Change. As winner, Jessica will receive one free registration to the 2012 conference.

Jessica has worked in the field of sexual health for the last eight years. Her experience includes teaching health education to disadvantaged youth and to recovering substance abusers in California, researching sexual health programs and policy, founding a sexual empowerment program for young women and writing a college sexual health column. More recently, she advocated for positive sexual health policies as a Public Policy Associate with The AIDS Institute and worked at the White House to help develop policy around reproductive and sexual health. Jessica received her B.A. from Pomona College, majoring in Public Policy / Human Sexuality. Jessica concentrated her MPH studies on the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. Starting fall 2011, she will continue her work at Johns Hopkins as a PhD candidate in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Jessica plans to focus her dissertation research on partner notification and on the development and evaluation of new media sexual health interventions.

Congratulations Jessica!

Runners-up

Dr. Marc Steben, a family practitioner at Quebec’s National Institute of Public Health on Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) is a runner-up in the 2012 National STD Prevention Conference theme contest. Although his theme, Old Infections In Need of New Methods, was not selected as a winner, it is definitely worthy of an honorable mention.

Dr. Steben is a member of the social and preventive medicine and obstetrics and gynecology departments as a faculty member at the University of Montréal. He is also a member of the Canadian STI guidelines expert group and lead author on the group’s book chapters on HPV and genital ulceration. Dr. Steben was the 2010 recipient of the Gilles Des Rosiers award for his contribution to continuing medical education.

Dr. Steben chaired the 26th International Papillomavirus Society meeting and is 2011 co-chair of the policy and health services track of the International Society for STD Research Congress.

Dr. Steben currently practices at Clinique médicale l’Actuel in Montréal. In July, he will be the medical director of Clinique A McGill street, a sister clinic from l’Actuel devoted to multidisciplinary approach to sexual health.

Marty Goldberg, B.S., a CDC retiree, submitted another theme, STD Prevention - Cutting Edge While Cutting Budgets...The Real Challenge, for the 2012 National STD Prevention Conference. Though this theme was not selected, the committee felt it was worthy of being an honorable mention.

In 2007, Marty retired from CDC, where he served as a Member of the Board of The National Coalition of STD Directors, assisted in the formation of the Region III Infertility Prevention Project, coordinated the development of the first integrated STD Control Program LAN-Based Management System (Philadelphia, 1991- present), participated in the development of STD-related guidelines for "Healthy People 2000", and co-authored numerous STD-related publications. During his career with CDC, Marty worked in several STD programs including New York City as a public health advisor, Chicago as an Assistant Program Manager, and Houston and Philadelphia as a Program Manager. Shortly after retirement, Marty began working for the Public Health Management Corporation in Philadelphia as a Program Consultant. Marty graduated from the City College of New York with a B.S. in Psychology in 1968.