APHA Annual Meeting Session: Moving Public Health Systems Research from Infancy to Adolescence: Research Needs, Stakeholder Priorities, and a Joint Agenda
November 5, 2007, 8:30 a.m.- 10:00 a.m. (Session #3011.0)
In their formative article, Behind the Curve? What We Know and Need to Learn from Public Health Systems Research, Glen P. Mays, Ph.D., Paul K. Halverson, Dr.P.H., and F. Douglas Scutchfield, M.D., define Public Health Systems Research (PHSR) as a field of study that examines the organization, financing, and delivery of public health services within communities, and the impact of these services on population health. This discipline has been built and strengthened by PHSR researchers contributing to the knowledge base, private and public organizations funding such research, and variety of stakeholders along the translation continuum who use PHSR findings to guide policymaking. However, as PHSR moves from its infancy to its adolescence, unavoidable questions—practical and philosophical—face this field. This panel seeks to continue the PHSR consensus-building dialogue by addressing the diverse interests that shape this emerging field and posing a strategy for moving it forward.
Speakers include:
Susan Allan, M.D., Public Health Director, Oregon Department of Human Services
Ron Bialek, M.P.P., Executive Director, Public Health Foundation
Glen Mays, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Kate Papa, M.P.H., AcademyHealth
Information about this session can be found at http://apha.confex.com/apha/135am/techprogram/session_21626.htm
