Overview
The Association for Community Health Improvement is proud to announce its 4th annual national conference to be held on March 7-9, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Come to share and explore national and local best practices with real results and lessons. This year's topic tracks include:
- Maximizing Access to Care
- Innovating for Community-based Chronic Disease Prevention
- Achieving Community Benefit Excellence
- Leading Community Health Assessments with Impact
Across all of these tracks, the conference will address Advocating for Community Health and Building Partnerships among Health Care Leaders.
Conference Sessions and Activities
Attendees will learn and interact with peers in a variety of settings, including:
- Three energizing KEYNOTE SESSIONS, one for each day of the conference
- Practical and relevant BREAKOUT SESSIONS across four topic tracks
- Skill-building INTENSIVE WORKSHOPS
- Plenty of structured and open time for peer consultation, networking and problem-solving
- Social events to help build a national community
- NEW: "ADVANCED PRACTICE" breakout sessions designed for those with 10+ years of experience. More information will be available soon.
Conference Value
Participate in this conference and you will:
- Bring home practical strategies and tactics you can use
- Build bridges with peers in health care, public health, healthy communities, and philanthropy
- Engage and grow in sessions where everyone is a participant
- Gain skills and insights with national experts and capable peers
- Exchange ideas and experiences to help you develop new perspectives and approaches
Who Will Attend
The conference community will include a rich array of more than 450 committed health leaders from across the U.S. and Canada. This boundary-crossing conference's attendees will include:
- Community health and community benefit leaders in hospitals, health systems, health plans and other health care organizations
- Public health department directors and health promotion managers
- Healthy communities directors and community advocates
- Coalition members of access to care and disease prevention institutes
- Executives of national and state health associations
- Foundation leaders and social entrepreneurs
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