14th Annual Collegiate Fall Conference
Hepatitis B: The Human Impact (website)
Hepatitis B: The Human Impact was a conference that discussed the social and human aspects of living with chronic hepatitis B. Explore presentations from our guest speakers to learn about how HBV affects the human experience!
In our previous outreach efforts, much of Team HBV’s focus involves the hepatitis B virus itself and its physiological effects. And rightfully so! The disease attacks the liver and can cause serious complications if left untreated.
However, there is more to living with hepatitis than facing a threat to liver health. HBV carriers also face external threats in the form of discrimination or judgment from others, which can take a psychological and emotional toll. We prepared this year’s conference to shed light on this rarely discussed aspect of hepatitis B.
The conference featured advocacy experts who have witnessed discrimination against carriers in its various forms and storytellers who revealed their personal encounters with HBV. Our conference workshop challenged attendees to brainstorm inventive ways to share our speakers’ insights with the general public.
We hope that our content will help you build a more complete picture of how hepatitis B impacts the human experience.
Our conference workshop challenged attendees to brainstorm inventive ways to share our speakers’ insights with the general public, the product of which you can find here (link).
-Andrew Kang and Joyce Lui, co-chairs of the 2022 Team HBV Collegiate Advisory Board
12th Annual Collegiate Fall Conference
The Future of Healthcare in the Digital Age
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, our 2020 conference was the first Team HBV conference hosted virtually by the collegiate advisory board. The 2020 conference topic, The Future of Healthcare in the Digital Era, was chosen because at Team HBV, we believe that the bridging between health and technology has never been more apparent, and will only continue to grow, in the near future. How might we use technology, digital solutions, data, and human centered design to address issues in health access, quality, equity, and awareness?
At this conference,we explored this question through workshops, panels, speakers, and a conference project that facilitated the creative, inclusive, and collaborative nature of technology and healthcare. The conference project culminated into heppy days, an online resource hub that was made to house digital resources meant to address the emotional burdens individuals living with Hepatitis B and their loved ones face.
-Tiffany Yu and Jessica Lee, co-chairs of the 2020 Team HBV Collegiate Board
11th Annual Collegiate Fall Conference
Advancing Hep B Advocacy
The 2019 conference was hosted at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The conference theme was on hepatitis B policy and advocacy, with speakers from the policy and legislations space. The conference hackathon was focused on developing plans to advocate for hepatitis B prevention and awareness.
10th Annual Collegiate Fall Conference
#SELFIE: Strengthening, Encouraging, and Lifting Through Focused Interest in Each Other
Our 2018 conference was hosted at UCLA in Los Angeles, a worldwide center of influencers in the digital sphere. The theme of the conference was #SELFIE: Strengthening, Encouraging, and Lifting Through Focused Interest in Each Other, implemented with the intention to reinvent and expand Team HBV to new heights in hepatitis B Advocacy and social media campaigns.
At the conference, participants engaged in team-building challenges including creating social media content and developing new and creative awareness projects. Looking back, Team HBV has had an outstanding history of outreach and advocacy. One of the first intercollegiate collaborations involved chapters creating cardboard cutouts and placing them around campus. Recent projects have included chapters that have engaged Asian language media organizations in local communities. In 2018, the Outreach Hackathon, in place of previous Intercollegiate Outreach Projects, involved chapters engaging with the community through designing project proposals, including a walkathon event plan, a social media hashtag campaign, and a political advocacy booth.