Title: HAS Annual Meeting Program Newsworthy! (Reprise)
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Section/SPIG: Health Administration
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The Health Administration Section’s scientific program for the 2005 APHA Annual Meeting is worth attending. You are invited to view the entire HAS scientific program at: <http://apha.confex.com/apha/133am/techprogram/>. A complete list is located below.
Session #3109.0 Health Administration Section – Student Award Presentations
As a step toward recognizing the importance of students as the future leadership of public health, the Health Administration Section will be featuring a session focused on the top student abstracts submitted to the Health Administration Section. Please join us to recognize these students.
Session #3108.0 Eliminating Health Disparities through Collaborative Leadership
This year APHA and the American Medical Association are co-sponsoring a panel at the APHA Annual Meeting on using collaborative leadership to decrease health disparities. This panel comes from continuing discussions between APHA’s Health Administration Section and AMA’s public health staff. Panelists will present the principles of collaborative leadership as they can be used with practicing physicians in the community to work together on decreasing health disparities.
Session #3282.0 The 2004 Florida Hurricanes: Public Health and Community Response
Florida experienced its most intense hurricane season ever during a seven week period in 2004 – causing $60 billion damage and 117 deaths. Come hear about how Florida has coped with a situation where there was greater damage from natural disasters than any other state has had in a comparable period of time. Presentations will cover response and recovery activities relating to Hurricane Charley and lessons learned; the Department’s behavioral health incident command response to the hurricanes; a summary of a series of case studies and journals produced by graduates of the Public Health Leadership Institute of Florida; and the findings of a survey of nursing home administrators that collected their views on preparations for disasters and their experiences in the hurricanes.
Session #4031.0 New Directions for Quality Improvement
The U.S. public and elected officials are demanding accountability from government agencies. This Health Administration-sponsored session will provide attendees with a snapshot of current initiatives for quality improvement in public health at the state and local levels. The session will address successes, barriers and challenges to implementation of quality improvement efforts, and will provide attendees with strategies, tools and techniques for public health organizations to consider as they seek to move ahead in embracing quality improvement.
Session #4227.0 Public Health Systems Research
This invited session from the Health Administration Section will provide an update on the emerging field of public health systems research and and highlight current studies that offer evidence-based guidance for organizing, financing, and delivering pubic health services. Sessions #3030.0 and 3107.0 Meet NIH Researchers, Staff, and Volunteers in Reducing Cancer Disparities
The Health Administration Section is pleased to sponsor a panel session (#3030.0) with NIH researchers, staff, and volunteers discuss approaches to reducing cancer disparities. This session will be immediately followed by a roundtable session (#3107.0) where attendees will be able to meet with individual NIH researchers, staff and volunteers.
Bud Nicola - bnicola@u.washington.edu