Title: CHPPD Section Council invites CHPPD members to draw up roadmap for enhancing “sharing of ideas” in Philly
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Section/SPIG: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
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The Section Council invites CHPPD members to a meeting on Sunday, Dec. 11, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 109A, to draw up a roadmap to enhance "sharing of ideas."
In a survey in August 2005, CHPPD members said they joined the Section because they wanted to keep updated on planning and policy issues, and were interested in discussing ideas with other professionals. A roadmap responding to members suggested will be proposed and endorsed at the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. All members are encouraged to attend Section meetings, and if you are not able to attend the meeting in Philadelphia, please e-mail your ideas to the Section Council leadership.
In October 2005, over a conference call, Section Council members identified three levels of involvement: active involvement e.g. leadership team; moderate involvement e.g. staffing booth; and passive involvement e.g. reading updates. Specific opportunities are described below.
Opportunities in Leadership
Any members can join the leadership team. It is one way for members to get to interact other professionals.
Awards (Chair: Ann Umemoto, umemoto@modimes.org): Clarifies the purpose of the awards, develops formal criteria for the awards (that are approved by the Section Council), establishes a calendar for nominations, solicits award nominations and works with the Section Council to make decisions regarding the awards.
Manual (Chair: (Sherry Weingart), sweingart@ameritech.net): Reviews the Section manual, which contains the Section's bylaws, and proposes potential updates and changes to the bylaws for considerations by the Section Council.
Newsletter (co-chairs: Priti Irani, pri01@health.state.ny.us and Darryl Montgomery, dmontgomery@HealthyArkansas.com): Soliciting, editing and publishing articles, and working with APHA to see that members without e-mail receive hard copies of the newsletters. The newsletter is sent online only to members who have email acess. Please make sure that APHA has your most current e-mail address by sending it to membership.mail@apha.org.
Program Committee (Chair: Judy Gorbach, jagorbach@post.harvard.edu)
Reviewing the call for abstracts for possible updates and changes prior to the printing of the call for abstracts, and enforcing abstract policies on the Web site at policies established regarding submission and review of invited abstracts. These include:
- Formal invitations for a session will come only from the Section chair. This does not preclude persons seeking such a session from approaching the chair and requesting a session. Invited sessions will be determined no later than Dec. 31 of the preceding year.
- Abstract submissions will still be required for invited sessions - with one abstract per presentation, rather than one for the entire session.
- While no cap will be set, Section members agreed that up to 25 percent of the sessions may be invited by the chair (give or take a few percentages). Regarding preference being provided to Section members, invited sessions should be organized by, but do not need to be presented by, a Section member.
- The Program Committee was also charged with attempting to have an additional meeting for Section business scheduled, and to try to have four or five presenters per scientific session whenever possible.
Policy/Resolutions Committee (Chair: Donald M. Lumpkins, dmlumpkins@comcast.net): Establishing mechanisms to review and comment on proposed policy resolutions presented to APHA for consideration, consider and develop mechanisms for involving the Section in development of policy statements for consideration.
Strategic Task Force (Chair: Islara Souto, ibsouto@bellsouth.net)
Engaging Section membership, and become engaged in the APHA process. The task force is charged with identifying core policy issues around which the Section can organize membership interest as well as influence at APHA.
Webmaster (Thomas R. Piper, macquest@mchsi.com)
Maintaining and updating the Section Web site. Works closely with the Section Chair, Newsletter Editor and Section Committee Chairs to gather and post information of interest to CHPPD membership. Periodically survey the needs and desires of the Section leadership and membership to ensure that the Web site reflects these preferences.
Moderate involvement opportunities
For members who cannot be actively involved, writing articles for the newsletter, nominating individuals or organizations for awards, writing policies for consideration, staffing the CHPPD booth are some ways to be involved.
Low involvement opportunity
Reading the e-mails and information sent out by the Section, and acting on the information as relevant.
Other opportunities for involvement
In the survey, some members had expressed an interest in discussing specific topics with other CHPPD members. For example, one person mentioned “Heath Impact Assessment.” One idea mentioned was building on a forum - <www.chppd.org> recently initiated in response to discussions related to the Katrina disaster, and developing other similar forums.
Members did not get a chance to discuss all issues identified in the survey, and will be reviewing them in greater details before the Annual Meeting.