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27th Annual MAPHN Conference

Public Health Nursing: Navigating the New Era of Emerging Infectious Diseases

May 14th – May 15th, 2025

Thanks to everyone who attended this year’s annual conference! We are looking forward to seeing you again in 2026.

2025 Conference Awardees

Congratulations to our 2025 Conference Awardees! We are proud to have presented our annual awards to the following recipients:

  • Presidential Award: Simone Carter RN, BSN
  • Sheila Miller Memorial Public Health Nurse Award: Melissa Lowry MPH, BSN, RN
  • Charlotte Stepanian Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award: Kitty Mahoney RN, BSN, MS
  • Champion of Public Health Nurses Award: Caitlin Pettengill DNP-PHNL, RN
2025 Presidential Awardee, Simone Carter RN, BSN
2025 Presidential Awardee, Simone Carter RN, BSN
Sheila Miller Memorial Public Health Nurse Awardee, Melissa Lowry MPH, BSN, RN
Sheila Miller Memorial Public Health Nurse Awardee, Melissa Lowry MPH, BSN, RN
Charlotte Stepanian Memorial Lifetime Achievement Awardee, Kitty Mahoney RN, BSN, MS
Charlotte Stepanian Memorial Lifetime Achievement Awardee, Kitty Mahoney RN, BSN, MS
Champion of Public Health Nurses Awardee, Caitlin Pettengill DNP-PHNL, RN
Champion of Public Health Nurses Awardee, Caitlin Pettengill DNP-PHNL, RN

2025 Conference Gallery

Nurses around tables at the 2025 MAPHN Annual Conference.
Jacksonville, Florida skyline in black and white.

Public Health Nursing: Navigating the New Era of Emerging Infectious Diseases

The two day conference will be held at the Four Points by Sheraton Wakefield Hotel & Conference Center 1 Audubon Rd, Wakefield, MA.

There will be no “At Door” registrations permitted. Last date to register is April 30th, 2025.

DUE APRIL 30, 2025 – NOW CLOSED

Call for Proposals

The Massachusetts Association of Public Health Nurses (MAPHN) is pleased to announce the Call for Poster Abstracts for our 26th Annual Conference, May 14th-15th, 2025.  Abstracts that reflect innovative, evidence-based, or new practice information have the highest possibility for selection as a poster presentation at the conference. The 2025 Poster Committee looks forward to your submission!

2025 Conference Agenda

3:00 PM Hotel Registration for those with Overnight Accommodations & Conference Check-In for Afternoon Presentations – Scan QR Code and Pick-up badge 5:15-6:15 pm

4:00-5:15 PM Reception and visit the MAPHN Store 

5:15-6:15 PM Christina Hernon, M.D. Emergency Physician and Medical Toxicologist. “You Might Be There. Because Reality.” “Whether emerging infectious Diseases or a Disaster Event, Public Health Nursing brings helpers to a crisis. But when the crisis happens to you or around you, understanding the disaster gap holds the power to save lives & promote responder recover and healing.”

6:15-7:15 PM Dinner Buffet & Cash Bar, Nursing Store Open

7:15-8:15 PM Presentation Stephanie Chalupka, EdD, RN, PHCNS-BC, FAAOHN, FNAP, Professor & Coordinator MS in Nursing Program, Worcester University “Global Climate Change, Wildfires, and Human Health”

8:15 PM Socializing, & Networking, MAPHN Nursing Store 8:15-9:00PM 

06:30-07:30 AM Exhibitor Setup 

07:00-08:00 AM Check-in-Scan QR Code & pick up badge 

07:15-08:45 AM Breakfast Buffet Open

07:30-08:30 AM MAPHN Membership Annual Meeting

08:30-08:45 AM President’s Welcome: Tiffany Benoit, MPH, RN, CHO, Regional Nurse Consultant

08:45-09:00 AM 15-min Break, Exhibitors, & Poster Areas Open

09:00-10:00 AM Opening Remarks: Dylan Tierney, MD, MPH Associate Medical Director in Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences “How the Massachusetts DPH responds to Emerging Infections and What Resources Can Be Put into Action”

10:00-10:30 AM Visit the MAPHN Nursing Store & Exhibitors

10:30-11:30 AM Keynote: Todd Ellerin, MD Director Infectious Disease South Shore Hospital “Emerging Infectious Disease-What’s New on the Horizon”

11:30-12:00 PM Jessica Tracy, MSN, RN, REHS/RS, Simone Carter, RN BSN, and Angela Kramer, MS, RN “MAPHN Leadership Matters: Update” Leadership Matters Team: Pat Tremblay, M.S. RN, Caroline Kinsella, BSN, RN, RS, Taylor West, BSN, RN, Tiffany Benoit, MPH, RN, CHO Regional Nurse Consultant

12:00-01:00 PM Lunch, exhibitors, posters, nursing store open 12:30-1:00 pm

01:00-02:00 PM Presentation Caitlin Pettengill, DNP-PHNL, RN, Chief Local PH Clinical Advisor, Meg Burch, MS, RN, NCSN UMass Local PH Nurse Consultant Program Manager, Ann Becker, DNP-PHNL, RN, UMass Local PH Nurse Consultant Program Director, “OLRH and UMass Supporting Local Public Health Nurses”

02:00-02:20 PM Award Presentations-Welcome new Public Health Nurses, & Recognize Retirees

02:20-03:20 PM Manuel Lowenhaupt, MD, Medical Director, Amundsen Scott South Pole Station, United States Antarctic Program, “Public Health at the End of the Earth”

03:20 -03:30 PM Tiffany Benoit, President of MAPHN, welcoming newly elected board members

03:30 -03:45 PM Drawing of Chapter Baskets & 50/50 Raffle, & Scavenger Hunt