Session: Going for the Gold: Affiliate Best Practices


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3258.4: Monday, December 12, 2005: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Oral

Going for the Gold: Affiliate Best Practices

APHA and the Committee on Affiliates have a goal of building local public health infrastructure; one of the activities to accomplish that is by sharing best practices among the APHA affiliates. Best practices cover a wide range of issues. This session provides a forum to learn about affiliate successful practices in use of information technology for mentoring, planning and holding a Legislative Forum and capacity building that might be customized and/or replicated by other affiliates.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant will be able to: Describe how the Internet can be used to develop a program to mentor incoming public health workers. List three tools for raising the profile of advocacy in Affiliates. Identify lessons learned from capacity assessment.

Moderator(s):

Louise Anderson

2:30 PM

Making policy a priority: New Mexico Public Health Association's efforts to raise the bar on advocacy

Cheryl A. Ferguson, MPH

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

Organized by:

APHA-Committee on Affiliates

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