Health Administration

We invite all APHA members to be primary members of the Health Administration section and welcome all new, returning and continuing members to submit abstracts to our section! Health Administration is the right section for you if you have an interest in assuring the highest quality public health practice, identifying important issues in the advancement of quality and best practices in health administration, and seeking solutions that advance the health of the communities in which we live and work. The Health Administration section is also the right place for you if you value nurturing, supporting, training and exchanging information with public health and healthcare administrators of all disciplines and publicly advocating the highest quality practice based on sound administrative and scientific principles.

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 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 lessons learned for improvement. These papers should focus on how insights learned from research or practice can be applied in other settings.

 

Topics of interest include:

• Academic / practice partnerships and health administration training
  
• Accreditation and quality improvement in public health administration
  
• Administrative approaches to healthcare improvement
  
• Administrative models for improving equity in access, quality, and outcomes
  
• Administrative models for improving equity in access, quality, and outcomes - I
  
• Administrative models for improving equity in access, quality, and outcomes - II
  
• Administrative models for improving patient safety
  
• Administrative models for public health preparedness
  
• Administrative models for public health preparedness
  
• Big questions in health administration
  
• Challenges and benefits of social media for health administration
  
• Collaborative improvement efforts in health administration
  
• Collaborative improvement efforts in health administration - I
  
• Core competencies in health administration
  
• Cross-pollination between public health administration and healthcare administration
  
• Emerging challenges in health administration
  
• Ethics and accountability in health administration
  
• Evidence-based health administration
  
• Health Administration Section business meeting 1 (all are welcome)
  
• Health Administration Section business meeting 2 (all are welcome)
  
• Health Administration Section business meeting 3 (all are welcome)
  
• Health Administration Section business meeting 4 (all are welcome)
  
• Health Administration Section new member orientation / meet and greet
  
• Health Administration Section poster session 1
  
• Health Administration Section poster session 3
  
• Health Administration Section poster session 4
  
• Health Administration Section poster session 5: Late-breaking abstracts
  
• Health Administration Section social hour
  
• Health Administraton Section poster session 2
  
• Health administration at the intersection of politics and public health
  
• Health administration round table: Impacts of the Affordable Care Act
  
• Health administration round table: Innovations in health administration
  
• Health administration round table: Innovative collaborations to improve public health
  
• Health systems improvement
  
• Healthography: Administrative models for overcoming geographical differences in health outcomes
  
• Hospital and health systems role and accountability toward population health in the context of the Affordable Care Act
  
• Impacts of the Affordable Care Act
  
• Improving population health through healthcare administration
  
• Improving the Social and Economic Value of Public Health Strategies through Practice-Based Research Networks
  
• Improving the social and economic value of public health strategies through practice-based research networks
  
• Integrating and Focusing Local Resources to Impact Community Health: Using a Driver Diagram to Facilitate Effective Collaboration between Health Care and Public Health Focusing on Antibiotic Stewardship
  
• International perspectives on health administration
  
• Managing risk in health administration
  
• Million Hearts and hypertension control: Using a multi-state learning collaborative model to address systems approach to change
  
• Model practices for mentoring and succession planning in health administration
  
• Model practices in program evaluation
  
• Model practices in program evaluation
  
• Models for coalition building and policy influence in local health departments
  
• Models for coalition building and policy influence in local health departments
  
• Models for effective management of public health advocacy campaigns
  
• Models for user-centered design of public health interventions
  
• Models of academic / practice partnerships
  
• Public Health Systems and Services Research (PHSSR)
  
• Public health systems and services research (PHSSR) - I
  
• Public health systems and services research (PHSSR) - II
  
• Quality Improvement in Public Health Administration
  
• Quality improvement in public health administration
  
• Sharing public health functions and capabilities
  
• Successful models for communicating with policymakers
  
• Successful models for meeting PHAB accreditation standards
  
• Successful models for meeting PHAB accreditation standards
  
• Translation of health administration theory and research to health administration practice
  
• Tribal Health and Academic Health Departments: Current Status & Next Steps
  
• Using technology to improve health administration practice
  
• Workforce development, professional development, and human resources management in health administration
  
• Workforce development, professional development, and human resources management in health administration - I
  
• Workforce development, professional development, and human resources management in health administration - II
  
• Workforce diversity in health administration
  

Please click on the "Submit Abstract" link at the bottom of the page 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, health educators, and those certified in public health 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, panelist, discussant, and/or faculty must provide:

1) an abstract free of trade and/or commercial product names.

2) at least one MEASURABLE SINGLE objective (“to understand” or “to learn” are not measurable objectives and compound objectives are not acceptable). Use ONLY the following Measurable Action Verbs: Explain, Demonstrate, Analyze, Formulate, Discuss, Compare, Differentiate, Describe, Name, Assess, Evaluate, Identify, Design, Define or List.

3) A signed Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form with a relevant qualification statement;

Example of Acceptable Biographical Qualification Statement: (I have been the principal or co-principal of multiple federally funded grants focusing on the epidemiology of drug abuse, HIV prevention and co-occurring mental and drug use disorders. Among my scientific interests has been the development of strategies for preventing HIV and STDs in out-of-treatment drug users.)

Please note that stating “I am a Principal Investigator/Project Coordinator of this project.” is not sufficient since it only gives submitter's job title or position. Please add little more information about your experience and/or background.

4) All continuing education learning content must be of sound science or professional practice and serve to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills and professional competence of the health professional. Learning content should be evidence-based if available. A list of over 30 areas will be provided online for you to choose from. You will be asked to choose at least one or up to 6 areas that your presentation will address.

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

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Program Planner Contact Information:

Alan Card, PhD, MPH, CPH, CPHQ
Evidence-Based Health Solutions
PO Box 62
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: 574-323-7310
alan.j.card@gmail.com

and
Akilah Cadet, MPH
Quality Management--Department of Education and Training
San Francisco Department of Public Health--San Francisco General Hospital
1001 Potrero, Bldg 30, Suite 3200
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: 415-206-4013
Fax: 415-206-4450
akilah22@gmail.com