The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA
Session: Coalition Building and Partnering with the Public to Improve Environmental Public Health Services
2016.0: Sunday, November 10, 2002: 8:00 AM-6:00 PM
Oral
Coalition Building and Partnering with the Public to Improve Environmental Public Health Services
Statement of Purpose and Institute Overview:
Increasingly, public health and safety agencies are confronted by difficult environmental health problems ranging from environmental justice concerns of development, to contaminated site cleanup, to poor indoor air quality, to bio-terrorism and the spread of infectious diseases. This institute will provide participants with the knowledge, skills sets, and practical exercise needed to identify stakeholders, form partnerships with the public and professional agencies, and effectively coordinate those partnerships to identify and address such complex issues. In Boston, the faculty have used a successful model for building partnerships with the public and other stakeholders to address such varied issues as a leaking underground gasoline storage tank, disproportionate siting of noxious industries in low income communities of color, and planning the redevelopment of major brownfield sites. This CEI will draw upon these and other case studies to teach this model and skills set to the participants.
Learning Objectives: Through interactive presentations, group discussions, and break-out exercises, participants will learn models and skills for increasing and fostering public involvement in identifying public health issues of concern and making decisions/regulations to deal with them as well as the need for such involvement. Upon completion of the institute, participants will be able to: 1. Discuss the implications for the changing roles of public health professionals and administrators given the increasing involvement of the community in the public health decision making process 2. Identify key stakeholders in a given community 3. Identify the issues and concerns important to each of the stakeholders involved 4. Effectively involve community stakeholders in the process of identifying public health issues to be targeted for interventions 5. Coordinate public involvement in the process of formulating and implementing public health decisions and interventions 6. Practice effective risk communication skills with community stakeholders to inform, raise awareness, and promote involvement in the process of formulating and implementing public health decisions and interventions 7. Assess and discuss the implementation of new public health interventions (regulations, education strategies, etc.) and their overall outcomes, expected and unexpected
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organizer(s):Paul Shoemaker, MPH
8:00 AMWelcome and introduction (Ghaemghami and Shoemaker)
8:10 AMPre-assessment
8:20 AMFirst Group exercise/icebreaker
8:35 AMWhy bother with public involvement
Paul Shoemaker, MPH
9:05 AMFind and intergrate your stakeholders - the Boston model
Paul Shoemaker, MPH
9:35 AMBreak
9:50 AMCase study exercise (Shoemaker)
10:05 AMManaging the public involvement process - risk communication without creating a panic
Jalal Ghaemghami, PhD
10:35 AMLunch Break (APHA Annual Meeting Opening General Session)
1:35 PMBoston case studies - success with partnerships and failures without
John Shea, MS
2:05 PMCase study / scenario role play (Shoemaker, Ghaemghami, Shea, and Goldstein-Gelb)
2:35 PMSharing and review of role play group exercise results
Jalal Ghaemghami, PhD, Paul Shoemaker, MPH
3:05 PMBreak
3:20 PMImplications for the future - changing roles of the public health professional in building partnerships with the public
Jalal Ghaemghami, PhD, Warren Goldstein-Gelb
3:45 PMWrap-up: Group discussion and Q & A
4:25 PMPost-assessment
4:34 PMConcluding Remarks
Organized by:APHA-Continuing Education Institutes
CE Credits:CME, Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA