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APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing

Lynn S. Abrahamson, MPH, RN, Connecticut Public Health Association, c/o SCSU - Department of Public Health, 144 Farnham Avenue, New Haven, CT 06515, (860) 647-3175, labraham@ci.manchester.ct.us, Jerry King, Executive Director, Indiana Public Health Association, 3838 North Rural Street, Rm #214, Indianapolis, IN 46205-2930, Geoffrey Wilkinson, MSW, Massachusetts Public Health Association, 434 Jamaicaway, Boston, MA 02130, and Elaine Schwartz, Executive Director, Kansas Public Health Association, 215 SE 8th Ave, Topeka, KS 66603-3906.

In an interactive dialogue panelists and audience will describe their public health associations' experiences, both fruitful and problematic, with in-state partners, including how some associations have created mechanisms through which to perpetuate partnerships (e.g. board composition, formal coalitions), navigated between partners with potential mission conflicts (e.g. Planned Parenthood and abstinence-only groups) or maintained respectful partnerships even through episodic conflicts (e.g. between associations and elected policy makers).

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will learn about and assess a range of experiences of public health associations with local partners, learning how associations have cultivated creative relationships, recognized potential pitfalls and worked through conflicts to sustain constructive partnerships.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No