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, and student work (including an award for outstanding student submission). These papers should focus on how insights learned from research or practice can be applied in other settings.

 

Topics of interest include:

• Administrative policies, programs, or systems for improving equity in access, quality, and outcomes
  
• Administrative policies, programs, or systems for improving patient outcomes
  
• Benefits of evaluation and policy development
  
• Challenges and opportunities to working across sectors to improve health
  
• Collaborative efforts in health administration - challenges and opportunities
  
• Emerging challenges with policy creation in health
  
• Health organization and academic partnership to further program/policy development
  
• Hot topics for health administrators
  
• Impact of public health department accreditation
  
• Impacts of the Affordable Care Act
  
• Innovations in health administration and leadership
  
• International perspectives on health administration
  
• Model practices for communication communicating with policymakers
  
• Policies and programs to support or address workforce diversity, professional development and mentoring 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:

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

and
Michele L. McCay, MPH, DrPH
DePaul University
Phone: 708-214-9656
micheleshade@gmail.com