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Session: Methods and Techniques for Leading Public Health Organizations
5110.0: Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Methods and Techniques for Leading Public Health Organizations
The continuing development of the public health workforce and public health organizations continues to create challenges for leaders. This session takes a look at unique workforce development strategies and joint health organization efforts that can benefit staff, patients, and the communities being served.
Learning Objectives: A discussion of best practices in accreditation, identifying key competencies for staff, and how succession planning and joint organization initiatives support effectiveness in developing standards for the development of public health agencies.
Presider(s):Polly S. Turner, DrPH, MPH, RPh
12:30 PMRaising the bar: Accrediting local public health agencies  [ Recorded presentation ]
Shirley Rutz, MPH, Beverly Tremain, PhD, CHES
12:48 PMManagerial Challenges Facing Public Health Leaders in Today's Volatile Health Care Environment  [ Recorded presentation ]
John J. Newhouse, EdD, MS, David B. White, PhD, MPH
1:06 PMCreative Succession Planning in Public Health
Tricia Todd, MPH, Kristin Raab, MPH
1:24 PMKeeping the spirit alive: Strategies to support peer educators  [ Recorded presentation ]
Nancy Holson, MPH, Sharon B Mannheimer, MD, Julie Franks, PhD, Bill Bower, MPH, Paul Colson, PhD
1:42 PMWithdrawn -- PROMOTING A JOINT BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN COMPETIVE PUBLIC HOSPITALS: ROAD TOWARDS EFFICIENCY
Ada Pastor, MD, MPH, Oscar Bueno
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Health Administration
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA