to the top of the page
  Home  »  

Agenda

Download a copy of the tentative agenda here:
 

2026 Conference

Day 1: May 5, 2026 
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM  Registration Check-in 
Lunch on your own 
Exhibit Hall Open 
12:30 PM  Welcome, Opening Session 
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM  Opening Plenary: Public Health Updates in North Dakota
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM  Break & Visit Sponsors 
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM  Poster Session A 
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM  Breakout A 
  • ATOD: Motivational Interviewing: Implementation Considerations for Managers  
  • Community Health: Suicide Prevention in North Dakota 
  • General Environmental Health: Wildfire Smoke and Air Quality in North Dakota 
  • Food Safety: The Dose Makes the Poison: The Challenges of Food Additives 
  • Infectious Disease: Polio: Do you Remember It? Storytelling by the Ones Who Do 
  • Smorgasbord: Strength-Based Public Health Messaging: Centering Relationships and Tribal Sovereignty & How Cultural Identity and Connection through Programming Promote Healing and Resilience for Native Americans 
  • Syndemic: Prioritizing Outbreak Planning and Understanding Local Public Health Unit Responsibilities During Infectious Disease Outbreaks 
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  Breakout B 
  • ATOD: Leveraging the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Strategies to Impact Community Change 
  • Community Health: From Community to Care Teams: The Growing Role of Community Health Workers in North Dakota 
  • General Environmental Health: Innovations in Radon Education and Testing in North Dakota 
  • Food Safety: MN Nice Doesn’t Apply 
  • Infectious Disease: Demystifying Death Certificate Completion: What You Need to Know 
  • Smorgasbord: StrengthsFinder 2.0 and Beyond 
  • Syndemic: How Is Your STI Prevention Program? Evaluating Programs & Best Practices 
   
Day 2: May 6, 2026 
  Breakfast on your own 
8:30 AM – 8:45 AM  Welcome, Daily Announcements, Awards 
8:45 AM – 9:45 AM  Plenary  
9:45 AM – 10:30 AM  Break & Visit Sponsors 
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM  Poster Session B 
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM  Breakout C 
  • ATODStrengthening Clinician Capacity to Treat Youth Nicotine Dependence: Findings from the ACCESS Study 
  • Community Health: TBD 
  • General Environmental Health: Brief Insight into the World of Hazardous Waste 
  • Food Safety: Wild Mushrooms 
  • Infectious Disease: TBD 
  • Smorgasbord: Building Better Programs: Lessons on What Works, What Doesn’t, and Creating Lasting Results 
  • Syndemic: Spilling the Tea on HIV Stigma and Survival  
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM  Lunch (Provided)  
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM  Breakout D 
  • ATODJustice for Katarina: What Happens After the Sirens Fade 
  • Community Health: Well Parents, Well Kids: Growing Postpartum Support in North Dakota 
  • General Environmental Health: EPHEPR Framework – Environmental Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Response 
  • Food Safety: Epidemiology and Environmental Health in Enteric Disease Investigation in North Dakota 
  • Infectious Disease: Avian Influenza 
  • Smorgasbord: Not Another Boring Meeting (or Training): Tips for Participant Engagement 
  • Syndemic: Community Strategies in Response to Rising Syphilis Rates 
2:15 PM –3:15 PM  Breakout E  
  • ATODBuilding Your Prevention Capacity: Mapping, Connecting, Storytelling 
  • Community Health: Caring for the Whole Person 
  • General Environmental Health: The Importance of Pool Design 
  • Food Safety: Value in Waste: Compliance in Nose to Tail Marketing 
  • Infectious Disease: Avian Influenza 
  • Smorgasbord: Bridging Worlds: Using Culturally Grounded Metaphors to Build Capacity with Indigenous Evaluation Frameworks
  • Syndemic: TBD 
3:15 PM –3:45 PM  Break, Visit Sponsors, Snacks 
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM  Breakout F 
  • ATODThere Has Always Been Drinking in America: Alcohol, History, Culture, and What it All Means for Prevention 
  • Community Health: The Power of Prevention: ScreeND’s Impact on Rural and Tribal Communities in North Dakota 
  • General Environmental Health: Communicating Radon Risk: Strategies to Engage North Dakotans on an Invisible Environmental Hazard 
  • Food Safety: Balancing the Plate:  Addressing Static and Dynamic Risks in Food Safety 
  • Infectious Disease: Disease Investigation: Human Rabies in a North Dakota Healthcare Facility 
  • Smorgasbord: Community Power: Driving Public Health Change Through Advocacy  
  • Syndemic: Refugee and Immigrant Health: Supports to Move From Surviving to Thriving 
   
Day 3: May 7, 2026 
  Breakfast on your own 
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM  Breakout G 
  • ATODCredibleMind 
  • Community Health: Education and Donor Milk Programs Strengthening Breastfeeding Support and Public Health Across North Dakota 
  • General Environmental Health: Updates for Onsite Wastewater Treatment System Code 
  • Food Safety: Kwik Trip, Inc. (Kwik Star) Food Protection Risk Management Systems 
  • Infectious Disease: From Concern to Confidence: Responding to Common Vaccine Concerns from Parents and Patients 
  • Smorgasbord: Good Ideas, Messy Results: Why Public Health Efforts Don’t Always Go as Planned  
  • Syndemic: Tuberculosis Part 1 
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM  Breakout H 
  • ATODEmerging Drug Trends and the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP) as a Public Health and Public Safety Collaborative Tool in North Dakota 
  • Community Health: Cultivating Access: Expanding Local Foods in North Dakota 
  • General Environmental Health: TBD 
  • Food Safety: TBD 
  • Infectious Disease: Public Health and School Collaboration During the 2025 Measles Outbreaks in North Dakota 
  • Smorgasbord: The Family Resource Center Model: A Practical Framework for Advancing Community Wellbeing 
  • Syndemic: Tuberculosis Part 2 
10:45AM – 11:00 AM  Snack Break 
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM  Awards 
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM  Plenary  
12:15 PM   Closing 
   
 
 
© 2026 Bismarck State College – Continuing Education All rights reserved.
Designed and developed by Odney