Speaking & Presentations

American Public Health Association (APHA)
From institutional to individual responsibility: An analysis of how top US public health schools abandoned
COVID-19 mitigation policies
Recorded posted presentation selected for the Emerging Scholars Plus Program at the: Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association; 2023 November. Presented by Griest Schwartzman E.
Authored by Griest Schwartzman E, Matas KJ, Thomas A, Hughes M., Simon S, Wang C.

COVID Mitigation is Disability Access: An analysis of COVID policies at Institutions of Higher Education across the United States. Poster presentation at the: Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association; Presented by Eiryn A. Griest Schwartzman.
Authored by Eiryn A. Griest Schwartzman, Kris JG. Matas, and Courtney A. Bergan. 2022 November.

Featured mentoring pairs from the Disability Section Mentoring Program. 
Disability Section, Annual Meeting of the Public Health Association; 2022 November.
Mitra M, Twardzik E, James TG, Griest Schwartzman E. 

International OCD Foundation (IOCDF)
OCD and Chronic Illness: Concrete Ways to Navigate the Difficulties of Living With Both. 
Session presented by Natalia Nottingham, Eiryn Griest Schwartzman, CHES, Emily DeSalvatore, MS, LPC-MHSP, and Max Wilson at the IOCDF Online OCD Conference, November 2022.

Marked by COVID
Disability Justice & COVID-19.
Guest speaker presentation by Eiryn Griest Schwartzman and Stacie Hipp for the Marked By COVID Community Meetings series.
June 2022.

Generation Patient
Promoting a Campus Culture Embracing Students with Chronic Medical Disabilities.
Panel presented by Eiryn Griest Schwartzman, Syreeta Nolan, Alicia Wackerly-Painter for the Medical Disabilities and Higher Education Roundtable. March 2022.

• Presentation published in Chronic Medical Disabilities and Higher Education Roundtable Proceedings. May 2022. Available at: https://generationpatient.org/roundtables

American College Health Association (ACHA)
Centering Disabled & High Risk Students in COVID Safety Advocacy on Campus.
Training presented to the: American College Health Association, CoVAC Initiative Digital Peer Network. February 2022.

National Council on Independent Living (NCIL)
Chronic Pain and the Opioid Crisis 102: Mobilizing for Chronic Pain and Substance Use Disorder Advocacy In Your Community. 
Workshop presented by Lindsay Baran, Sarah Blahovec, and Eiryn Griest Schwartzman at the NCIL Annual Conference. July 2019.

National Disability Leadership Alliance (NDLA)
Chronic Pain, Opioids and Disability. 
Panel presentation by Lindsay Baran, Sarah Blahovec, and Eiryn Griest Schwartzman for the NDLA Organizer’s Forum. August 2018.

DC LCBTQA Symposium
Coming Out: On Disclosure of LGBTQ+ Status and Chronic Illness. 
Oral presentation by Abby Picard and Eiryn Griest Schwartzman at the 9th Annual DC LGBTQA Symposium. George Mason University. November 2014.