141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

3170.0
Leveraging Resources and Strengthening Infrastructure for Partnerships and Collaboration in Public Health

Monday, November 4, 2013: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Oral
This session aims to define collaborative practices to improve population health while promoting multiple methods of programmatic approaches and policy implementation.
Session Objectives: Identify ways to leverage community resources to maintain effective coalitions. Design partnership structures for advocacy alliances to drive state and local policy. Describe public health infrastructure as a component of Healthy People 2020.
Moderator:
Stuart Usdan, PhD

10:30am
Reducing childhood obesity through advocacy: The American heart association and robert wood johnson foundation childhood obesity advocacy organization   
Jill Birnbaum, JD
     
10:45am
Addressing health disparities among minority populations through program infrastructure and management   
Nakeitra Burse, MS, CHES, Antwan Nicholson, MA, DeMarc Hickson, PhD, MPH and June Gipson, PhD, EdS
     
11:00am
Leveraging local resources to maintain effective leadership teams   
Charline Whyte, Bachelors
     
11:15am
Return on investment analysis: A tool for policy advocacy   
Alberto J.F. Cardelle, PhD, MPH and Cynthia Bigley, MPH
     
11:30am
City of Detroit health department transition to a private non-profit instutitue for population health   
Anita Moncrease, MD, MPH, LaCema Womack, MS, ED SPEC, Sharon Quincy, RD, MA, Stephanie Harrington, BA and Remonia Chapman
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: Health Administration, Community-Based Public Health Caucus, Community Health Planning and Policy Development

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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