| 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
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| 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
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| Day 2: May 6, 2026 |
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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
- ATOD: Strengthening 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
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| 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM |
Lunch (Provided) |
| 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM |
Breakout D
- ATOD: Justice 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
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| 2:15 PM –3:15 PM |
Breakout E
- ATOD: Building 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
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| 3:15 PM –3:45 PM |
Break, Visit Sponsors, Snacks |
| 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM |
Breakout F
- ATOD: There 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
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| Day 3: May 7, 2026 |
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Breakfast on your own |
| 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM |
Breakout G
- ATOD: CredibleMind
- 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
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| 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM |
Breakout H
- ATOD: Emerging 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
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| 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 |
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