Panel Discussion

In the past 2 years, several public health organizations have collaborated to pursue policy change around three public health issues. These topics included public health financing, public health workforce and school health services. Key organizations addressing these issues included the Wisconsin Public Health Association, the Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards of Health, the Public Health Council, the Wisconsin School Nurse Association and the Wisconsin Division of Public Health. The workforce and school health services projects were made possible through planning grants funded by the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program. This session will discuss these three initiatives, describe the challenges of the collaboration as well as current status of the policy development.

Session Objectives: 1.Articulate core components of three recent Wisconsin public health policy initiatives. 2.List three advantages of collaboration when addressing statewide public health policy initiatives. 3.Describe two challenges to groups wanting to advance policy recommendations to statewide stakeholders.

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing