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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
Thanks to Rittenhouse for their sponsorship of MLA's website.

Thanks to Elsevier's Procedures Consult for their sponsorship of the MLA website.

Thanks to American Psychiatric Publishing for their sponsorship of the MLA website!