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CCC = COLORADO CONVENTION CENTER
HRD = HYATT REGENCY DENVER
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Non-Endorsement of Products
As an Accredited Provider of Continuing Education (CE) Credits
for Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Medicine (CME),
and Public Health (CPH) the American Public Health Association
Learning and Professional Development Programs (LPDP) Unit and
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conjunction with this activity and are not responsible for the actual
presentation of content during scientific sessions.
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any entity either producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing
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Continuing Medical Education (CME)
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Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide
continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement:
The APHA designated this live educational
activity for a maximum of 30 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM.
Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent
of their participation in the activity.
The educational purpose of APHA 2016 Annual Meeting & Expo is
to offer professionals and practitioners the opportunity to enhance
their knowledge, exchange information on best practices, and learn
about the latest research and new trends in public health.
Educational Objectives
• To address the gap between public health practitioners’
knowledge and performance as it relates developing and
implementing policies that demonstrate a collaborative
approach to improving the health of all people.
• To define the roles of the public health community in working
together to promote health, equity, and sustainability as public
health policies are developed and implemented.
• To increase knowledge of the public health community to
incorporate health, equity, and sustainability into specific
policies, programs, and processes, and to embed health, equity,
and sustainability considerations into government decision-
making processes.
• To identify best practices in developing and implementing health
in all policies.
• To improve the competencies of public health practitioners
through skill-building.
Learning Needs and Identified Gaps
Through multiple mechanisms, including needs assessment
surveys, the judgment of the APHA Education Board, and input
from the Continuing Education Committee, APHA has identified
a gap in public health practitioners’ competency in the area
of developing and implementing policies that demonstrate a
collaborative approach to improving the health of all people. The
APHA Annual Meeting will address gaps in knowledge of the public
health community to incorporate health and equity into specific
policies, programs, and processes, and to embed health and equity
considerations into government decision-making processes.
Target Audience
Policy makers, physicians, social workers, health educators, public
and environmental health professionals, students, international,
federal, state, county, and local health agency officials and staff,
nurses and nurse practitioners, health care providers, school health
personnel and teachers, managed care group personnel, personnel
and faculty from academia, administration and research.
Policy on Disclosure to Learners
The APHA strives to ensure balance, independence, objectivity
and scientific rigor in all of its educational programs. All
planners, faculty members, moderators, discussants, panelist
and presenters participating in this program have been required
to disclose any real or apparent conflicts(s) of interest that may
have a direct bearing on the subject matter of this program. This
includes relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical
device manufacturers or other corporations whose products or
services are related to the subject matter of the presentation topic.
The intent of this policy is to identify openly any conflict of interest
so that the attendees may form their own judgments about the
presentation with full disclosure of the facts. In addition, faculty
is expected to openly disclose any off-label, experimental and/
or investigational uses of drugs or devices in their presentation.
CONTINUING EDUCATION