Title: Chair's Report Winter 2005, by Jörg Westermann
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Section/SPIG: Health Administration
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| Jorg Westermann, Chair, HA Section |
Dear Health Administration Section Member:
Thank you very much for taking the time to read our Newsletter, and thanks to Laura Larsson and her committee to putting such a great resource together. Many thanks also to the members that took the time and contributed an article or resource to this Newsletter.
I hope you had a good holiday season and a good start into the New Year.
It is with great pleasure and honor that I am serving as your Chair this year.
I would like to continue on the path that the last several Chairs have already started and also increase the outreach efforts and convert members of our Ssection to active and engaged members of our Section.
To get this started I have sent out an e-mail to each member of our Section and asked each member to consider getting involved in one our committees. I attached a short description of the committee and its main responsibilities.
We received quite a number of responses. A lot of members stated that they appreciated the opportunity to get involved. I forwarded the responses to the committees and asked them to follow up with each member. So hopefully we reached out and located some members that will help our Section to move forward and become a great resource within APHA and outside of APHA.
I decided to ask Tricia Todd to continue her work as the Chair of the Special Committee on Strategic Planning of the Implementation Committee. This committee is Co-Chaired by Nadim A. Haddad. I will ask the Section Council during our next conference call to confirm this decision. I think this Committee and process is of great importance to the success of our Section. Therefore I ask every Committee Chair to name a representative of their committee to the Strategic Planning and Implementation Committee in order to facilitate the implementation of the goals and objectives we worked on over the last year.
Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns or would like to get involved.
Thank you so much for your kind consideration.
Have a great week and stay in touch!