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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
 APHA 2005
 
Session: Developments in the Organizational Structures of Public Health
5046.0: Wednesday, December 14, 2005: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Developments in the Organizational Structures of Public Health
This session will examine recent developments in governmental structures of agencies at the federal, state, and local (regional) level. The ability of governmental public health to meet the major challenges of today's environment requires flexible and innovative organizational structures.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1) Discuss lessons learned through the Futures Initiative at CDC 2) Describe the type and extent of state public health agency restructuring that has occurred in the past few years 3) Describe the factors which led to the development a regional public health Alliance 4) Compare two different experiences in regionalizing public health services.
Moderator(s):Bud Nicola, MD MHSA
8:30 AMCDC: The future is now  [ Recorded presentation ]
Bradley A. Perkins, MD, MBA
8:50 AMState Public Health Agency - Organization & Reorganization  [ Recorded presentation ]
Brent M. Ewig, MHS, Mary Shaffran, Kathleen Nolan, MPH
9:10 AMAn innovative public health model infrastructure: The Western New York Public Health Alliance  [ Recorded presentation ]
Donald W. Rowe, PhD
9:30 AMRegionalizing services for emergency response: Lessons learned from public health officials  [ Recorded presentation ]
Justeen K. Hyde, PhD, Linda S. Sprague, MA, Basil Kim, MPH, Mary Clark, JD, MPH, Karen Ann Hacker, MD, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Health Administration
Endorsed by:Academic Public Health Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA