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Annual Report 2000/01

Public Health/
Health Administration Section

Goal 1. Profession Development

The Public Health/Health Administration (PH/HA) Section is co-sponsoring three programs and one symposium at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association. The section committed $1,000 to support the symposium. The travel medicine program planners, Richard Klein and Helen Look, raised $500 (in addition to the funding from co-sponsoring sections and SIGs) to support the travel medicine invited speaker program.

The three programs are entitled:

I. "Core Competencies for Librarians in Informatics- Intensive Environments" (contributed papers) Medical Informatics (lead sponsor), Public Health/Health Administration (co-sponsor), Leadership and Management, Medical Library Education

II. "Medicine for International Travel: State of the Art, 2001" (invited paper) Public Health/Health Administration (lead sponsor), Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Transgendered SIG, Federal Libraries, International Cooperation, Consumer & Patient Health Information, Pharmacy & Drug Information, Rehabilitation Hospital SIG

III. "To Boldly Go Where No Information Has Gone Before"-Delivering Health And Information To Rural Communities Using Telemedicine (contributed papers) International Cooperation (lead sponsor), Public Health/Health Administration (co-sponsor)

The symposium is entitled:

I. "Library Partnerships - Powerful Connections" Consumer Health and Patient Health Information, International Cooperation and Public Health/Health Administration Sections and the Outreach SIG PH/HA and the Medical Informatics Section have jointly sponsored an electronic journal club on public health informatics.

PH/HA Newsletter/Web Editor Kris Alpi coordinated the three sections of thirty participants. A Web page on public health informatics resources has been developed and made available on the PH/HA Website.

Goal 2. Advocacy

A revised section brochure is being developed and will be distributed at the 2001 Annual Meeting. The Membership Chair, Newsletter Editor, and Section Chair are streamlining the process for adding new members to the sectionUs listerserv and announcing the new members in the sectionUs newsletter. A new section logo is being designed and will eventually be incorporated into the sectionUs Website, brochure, and section quilt piece for the MLA quilt. Goal 3. Organization A slate of candidates were proposed and voted on for election for 2001/02.

Goal 4. Research

PH/HA is supporting a "Core Public Health Journal Project." The purpose of the project is to identify a list of core public health journals that should be in all libraries serving public health organizations in any or all of the specialty areas covered. The list should assist libraries and faculty in selecting journals for purchase and in evaluating their own collections. Chair-Elect Matt Wilcox and Stephanie Normann are currently coordinating the project.

Goal 6. Information Technology

The sectionUs Web based newsletter publicizes public health and health administration issues important to section members. An ongoing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) column has been developed.

MOTION

This report is informational and requires no action by the Board of Directors.

Prepared by: Helen Look Chair of the Public Health/Health Administration Section

Thanks to Rittenhouse for their sponsorship of the MLA Website!
Thanks to Mosby's Nursing Index for their sponsorship of the MLA Website!
Thanks to American Psychiatric Publishing for their sponsorship of the MLA Website!