2015 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

339555
An Historical Perspective


Monday, November 2, 2015 : 3:10 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Theodore M. Brown, PhD in History of Science and Medicine, Postdoc in History of Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

  
Examining the span of APHA and the context of the social and public health movement of the including historic highlights and themes related to Annual Meeting.

Learning Areas:

Public health or related research

Learning Objectives:
Assess the role of historic analysis import and lessons that inform both current context as well as provide guideposts to influencing the future directions of population health.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a PhD historian who specializes in the history of medicine, public health, and health policy. I have published many scholarly articles and books and have been a History editor of the American Journal of Public Health since 1997. I am also centrally involved in the APHA History Project.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

Back to: 3327.0: APHA History Project: APHA: Reflections on Fourteen Decades, of Public Health – Then, Now, and the Future