The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Abstract #52299

Victor W. Sidel, MD, Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical College and Montefiore Medical Center, 111 East 210th Street, New York, NY 10467, Sidney J. Socolar, PhD, 606 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027-7027, Frank Goldsmith, DrPH, Self Employed, 371 Second Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215-2403, 718-768-0351, vsidel@igc.org, and Cheryl Merzel, DrPH, Dept of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W. 168 St., New York, NY 10032.

Over the past three years, a Task Force on Public Health Infrastructure of the Public Health Association of New York City (PHANYC) has convened a series of seminars on the public health infrastructure of New York City. The report of the Task Force, entitled ?Strengthening New York City?s Public Health Infrastructure,? was published in September 2001 and has attracted considerable attention and favorable comment, both locally and nationally. On December 12, 2001, members of the PHANYC Board of Directors and other public health leaders met in a Public Health Leadership Seminar, resulting in a second report, ?Public Health at a Crossroads.? Copies of both reports will be available at the poster session. The work of the Task Force was supported by the New York Community Trust. PHANYC will continue to work on public health infrastructure issues and their application to New York City and other cities.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about efforts by the Public Health Association of New York City to protect and strengthen New York City's public health system, efforts that may be applicable to APHA affiliates in other cities

Keywords: Infrastructure, Public Health Infrastructure

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: Public Health Association of New York City
Disclosure not received
Relationship: Not Received.