CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — 139th APHA Annual Meeting

Theme: Healthy Communities Promote Healthy Minds & Bodies

Health Administration

Submission Deadline: Friday, February 18, 2011
We invite all APHA members to be primary members of the Health Administration section and we also welcome all members who join our section! Health Administration is the right section for you if you have interest in the advancement of quality and best practices in health administration leadership skill development, and participation in cutting edge dialogue about health administration and leadership practice.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 18, 2011
This section invites papers for presentation that address research, practice and policy issues as they relate to health administration and leadership in domestic and international governmental public health agencies, for profit and nonprofit health organizations, academia, business, industry and other settings.

Papers should identify the specific administrative and leadership challenges in health administration practice. We encourage papers that focus on solutions including best practices, promising models for the future, and/or instructive failures that offer insight for improvement. These papers should focus on practice or applicable research and consider transportability and applicability of lessons learned to other settings.

Check list:

Does my paper address at least one of the following?
• Health administration practice issues of interest to public health leaders
• Quality Improvement/ Performance Management in public health
• Public health finance issues
• Workforce development in public health
• Future of health administration, trends, ideas, opportunities
• Future of public health leadership, trends, ideas, opportunities
• Research, practice and/or policy related to health administration
• Research, practice and/or policy related to public health leadership
• Challenges in health administration and leadership with a problem-solving perspective

Suggested Topic Areas Are Listed Below:
  • Access to Care
  • Administrative Models and Tools That Produce Efficiencies in Organizational Operations
  • Administrative Strategies Supporting Multi-Sector Collaboration
  • Administrators Role in Addressing Health Disparities and Cultural Awareness
  • Collaborative Leadership Strategies and Tools That Assist Communities in Achieving Public Health Outcomes
  • Core Competencies for the Professional Public Health Administrator
  • Creating New Revenue Streams in Times of Public Health Funding Shortfalls
  • Critical Issues in Public Health Funding
  • Ethics and Accountability in Health Administration
  • Financial Management 101 For New Local Health Officers
  • Health Administrator's Role in Medical Care
  • Health Care Reform
  • Hot Topics for Health Administrators
  • International Perspectives in Health Administration
  • Leadership Development Models in Public Health Practice Settings
  • Leadership and Healthy Communities: The Health Administrators Role in Promoting Healthy Minds and Bodies
  • Lessons Learned in Administrative and Leadership Practices in Public Health
  • Model Practices in Policy Development and Advocacy
  • Models for Effective Program Evaluation
  • Models of Quality Improvement Programs in Local, State, and Territorial Health Departments
  • Models of Successful Academic/Practice Partnerships To Enhance Student Experiences in Health Administration
  • Models of Successful Leadership Development Programs for New Health Administrators
  • Organizational Strategic Planning, Community Health Improvement Planning and Preparing for Accreditation – Model Processes That Make it all Mesh
  • Promising Practices in Responding to Technology Challenges for Health Care Administrators
  • Promoting and Maintaining Healthy Communities with Limited Organizational Resources
  • Strategies and Programs That Increase Diversity of Leadership in Public Health Practice
  • Translation of Health Administration Theory and Research to Health Administration Practice
  • Using Media and Social Networking Effectively in Public Health Settings
  • Workforce Development in Public Health
Please click on the "Submit Abstract" link in the top right corner and select one of the topics above. If you are proposing multiple papers to comprise an entire panel or session (i.e. a session proposal), please consult with the program chair before submission; all such session proposals need to be approved by the program chair in advance.

Continuing Education Credit

APHA values the ability to provide continuing education credit to physicians, nurses, health educators and those certified in public health at its annual meeting. Please complete all required information when submitting an abstract so members can claim credit for attending your session. These credits are necessary for members to keep their licenses and credentials.

For a session to be eligible for Continuing Education Credit, each presenter must provide:

1) An abstract free of trade and/or commercial product names

2) At least one MEASURABLE objective (DO NOT USE understand or to learn as objectives, they are not measurable).

Examples of Acceptable Measurable Action Words:
Explain, Demonstrate, Analyze, Formulate, Discuss, Compare, Differentiate, Describe, Name, Assess, Evaluate, Identify, Design, Define or List.

3) A signed Conflict of Interest (Disclosure) form with a relevant Qualification Statement. See an example of an acceptable Qualification Statement on the online Disclosure form.

Thank you for your assistance in making your session credit worthy.

Contact Annette Ferebee at annette.ferebee@apha.org if you have any questions concerning continuing education credit. Contact the program planner for all other questions.
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Program Planner Contact Information:
Vamsi Vasireddy, MD, MPH, DrPHc
School of Public Health
University of Illinois at Chicago
1603 W. Taylor Street, M/C 923
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: 773-578-7833
Vvasir2@uic.edu

and
Maureen Bezold, PhD, MPH
Western Illinois University
703 N Campbell St.
Macomb, IL 61455
Phone: 414-226-2258
MP-Bezold@wiu.edu