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5086.0: Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | |||
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| The American Public Health Association meeting is being held the week following the 2004 Elections during which races for the White House and the US Congress will be determined. The outcome of the election will pose vital opportunities and challenges for public health policy at the national level over the next four years. This session will engage four renowned DC-based opinion leaders and political in a discussion of implications of the election results for public health funding and policy. Participants will have an opportunity to engage the speakers in a lively and strategic discussion. Perspectives will be offered from: Morton Kondrake. A journalist for more than 40 years, Kondracke has covered nearly every phase of American politics and foreign policy. He is a commentator on the Fox News Channel, seen nightly as a Fox All Stars panelist on Special Report with Brit Hume and weekly as co-host of The Beltway Boys. He is the Executive Editor and Columnist for Roll Call, Capitol Hill's independent newspaper. He is the author of Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease published in 2002. In November 1994, Morton Kondracke won the Washington Post's coveted Crystal Ball Award as the only journalist to predict the Republican Congressional landslide. Celinda Lake. One of the Democratic Party's leading political strategists, Lake has served as tactician and senior advisor to the national party committees, dozens of Democratic incumbents and challengers at all levels of the electoral process. Lake and her firm are known for cutting edge research on issues including the economy, health care, the environment and education. Christopher Jennings. Chris Jennings is the president of Jennings Policy Strategies, Inc. Mr. Jennings served the Clinton Administration for eight years. As the President's senior health policy advisor, he was charged with developing and implementing the Administration's health care policy. He is currently a senior advisor to the Kerry Campaign. Julie Rovner (Invited), A health policy journalist who has covered Capitol Hill for the last 15 years, Rovner is currently a part-time health policy reporter for National Public Radio and a special correspondent for National Journal's CongressDaily. A noted expert on health policy issues, Rovner has appeared on television on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, CNN, C-Span, and MSNBC. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At this end of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Identify voting trends related to public health issues in the 2004 elections; 2. Identify opportunities for public health policy with the new Presidential Administration and Congress; 3. Identify challenges in national public health policy with the new Presidential Administration and Congress. | |||
| Celinda Lake Morton Kondracke Chris Jennings | |||
APHA President-elect Special Session: Looking Ahead: What the Elections Mean for Public Health ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | APHA-Special Sessions | ||
| CE Credits: | Nursing | ||