CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — 138th APHA Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2010)

Health Administration

Submission Deadline: Friday, February 12, 2010

 Submit Abstract
2010 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

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.

2010 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS- DEADLINE FEBRUARY 12, 2010
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
• Public Health Finance Issues
• Workforce Development
• Future of health administration, trends, ideas, opportunities
• Future of leadership, trends, ideas, opportunities
• Research, practice and/or policy related to health administration
• Research, practice and/or policy related to 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
  • Collaborative Leadership Strategies and Tools That Assist Communities to Achieve Public Health Outcomes
  • Creating New Revenue Streams in Times of Public Health Funding Shortfalls
  • Critical Issues in Public Health Funding
  • Financial Management 101 For New Local Health Officers
  • Health Administration ethics and accountability
  • Health Care Reform
  • Hot Topics for Health Administrators
  • How to Use Media and Social Networking Effectively in Public Health Settings
  • Leadership Development Models in Public Health Practice Settings
  • Leadership and Social Justice: The Health Administrators role
  • Lessons Learned On Administrative and Leadership Practices in Public Health
  • Maintaining a social justice focus with limited organizational resources
  • Model practices in Policy Development
  • Models for Effective Program Evaluation
  • Models of Quality Improvement Programs in Local & State 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
  • Strategies and Programs That Increase Diversity of Leadership in Public Health Practice
  • Translation of Health Administration Theory & Research to Health Administration Practice
  • Workforce development
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 and health educators 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 (to understand or to learn are not measurable objectives).

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 form with a relevant qualification statement

Thank you for your assistance in making your session credit worthy.
Contact Annette Ferebee at www.annette.ferebee@apha.org if you have any questions.
Submit Abstract

Program Planner Contact Information:
Kusuma Madamala, PhD, MPH
Consultant
450 Thistle Lane
Lake Zurich, IL 60047
Phone: 847-307-5943
kmadamala@hotmail.com

and
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