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Annual Report 2003/04

Public Health/Health Administration (PH/HA) Section

Progress on Goals and Priorities for 2003/2004

Goal 1: Recruitment, Membership, and Leadership in the Profession

Objective 1: Encourage and enlist current PH/HA members to be active within the section.

Progress: The newsletter editor and Web editor positions have become Committee Chair positions, have been filled with new leaders, and each committee now has several members. In addition we had a successful election, with both positions contested.

Objective 2: Establish a process to contact members who do not renew their PH/HA membership and encourage them to do so.

Progress: Membership Chair Pauline Fulda is trying to get a list of 2002 members who did not renew in 2003, but has yet to receive it. The plan currently is to do this manually and personally contact non-renewing members.

Goal 2: Llifelong Learning

Objective 1: Conduct a survey to determine the continuing education needs of PH/HA members.

Progress: Kay Deeney designed and conducted a survey, the results of which were published in the fFall issue of PH/HA News (http://www.phha.mlanet.org/fall2003.html#survey) .

Objective 2: Offer at least one e-journal club on a topic relevant to PH/HA members, based on the results of the survey (see objective 1).

Progress: Kay Deeney is currently working with representatives from CAPHIS on preparing a health literacy journal club to be offered in the sSpring.

Goal 3: Advocacy

Objective 1: Contribute $750 from the section to the Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship Fund.

Progress: Completed.

Objective 2: Coordinate the selection of the Sewell Fund stipend recipients who will attend the APHA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Progress: Fourteen of twenty-five applicants were accepted to attend the meeting, which took place November 15-19, 2003. The Client Relations Committee coordinated the process and the activities of the meeting itself.

Goal 4: Creating and Communicating Our Knowledge

Objective 1: Establish the Core Journal List as an official PH/HA project and develop a plan for sustainability.

Progress: To this point a plan has yet to be drafted. This will be discussed at the Annual Meeting in Washington DC.

Objective 2: The sponsorship of programs at MLA '04 in Washington, DC (May 2004), which are of high quality and broad interest to the PH/HA section and the membership of MLA at large.

Progress: Chair-elect, Kris Alpi, has worked on the program planning for this year. Planned programs are as follows:

Lead sponsor:

"Mining Data for Knowledge Generation: Collecting, Using and Promoting Data Sets." Contributed papers session.
"The Power of National and International Health Initiatives." Cosponsored by LBGT SIG.
"Eco-Power: Taking Back the Environment." Invited and contributed papers. Lead sponsor: Chiropractic Libraries; cosponsors: PH/HA and NLM (Specialized Information Services)
"Emerging Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases: The Power of Disease on Society." Lead sponsor: History of the Health Sciences; cosponsors: PH/HA, Veterinary Libraries, International Cooperation, Health Association Libraries.
"Educating the 21st Century Health Professional." Contributed papers. Lead sponsor: Educational Media & Technologies Section; cosponsors: PH/HA, Medical Informatics, International Cooperation.
Power Surge Session: "Iraq Libraries and Health," an invited speaker session, cosponsored with the International Cooperation Section.

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

Section Officers

Chair: Marie Ascher
Chair-Elect: Kristine Alpi
Immediate Past-Chair: Will Olmstadt
Secretary-Treasurer: Kathryn Kerdolff
Section Council Representative (by proxy): Matthew Wilcox
Section Council Representative-Elect: Pauline Fulda
Client Relations Committee Chair: Nancy Schaefer
Membership Chair: Pauline Fulda
Newsletter Editor: Barbara Nail-Chiwetalu
Web Committee Chair: Lisa Wallis (Ammon Ripple through 12/03)
Continuing Education Chair: Kay Deeney
Archivist: Helen Look