Continuing Education at the APHA Annual Meeting

The 2008 APHA Annual Meeting offers professionals and practitioners the opportunity to enhance their knowledge and exchange information on best practices, latest research and new trends in public health and provides more educational offerings in public health than any other event. Registrants may earn continuing education (CE-credits) for specific professional disciplines.

Scientific Session- Hundreds of scientific sessions will be approved for continuing education credits for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES), Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Nursing Education (CNE). Consult the online program after August 23 to view abstracts, learning objectives, faculty disclosure and updated information on sessions approved for CE.

Learning Institute Courses  - APHA also offers Learning Institute Courses immediately prior to the Conference.  Up to 13.5  CE credits can be earned for attending these half or full-day courses.  Click here for more information about the Learning Institute courses.

Annual Meeting Theme -  The 2008 APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition theme, Public Health Without Borders, will explore transnational public health, and will provide a forum to address a diversity of topics including immigrant and refugee health; water and land rights; coordinating disease surveillance and epidemologic response activiteis across boarders; air and water pollution management across borders; the international impact of trade, arms sales, tobacco sales and gun control policies; and the international transmission of socio-cultural behaviors with adverse health implications.  This Annual Meeting will provide a forum for better understanding of the aspects of growing multiculturalism that promote healthy living and highlight and foster specific traditional practices that may serve to protect populations as they enter new environments.

Educational Objectives

• To define the roles of the public health community in responding to the influences of physical, economic and social environments.
• To identify lessons learned and best practices in addressing general public health issues.
• To increase information about and general awareness of public health issues and how they are affected by immediate world factors.
• To enrich the work experiences of public health practitioners by introducing new skills and improving existing competencies.
• To provide both formal and informal opportunities for attendees to share ideas, information and experiences, and to promote alliances and networking to address public health issues.

Target Audience - Policy makers, physicians, social workers, health educators, public and environmental health professionals, state, county, and local health agency officials and staff; nurses and nurse practitioners, health care providers, and staff including those in schools, managed care, and academe.

Policy on Faculty and Sponsor Disclosure - It is the policy of APHA that the program planners, presenters, moderators and organizers disclose real or apparent conflicts of interest relating to their participation in the educational component of the Annual Meeting. They must also disclose discussions of unlabeled/unapproved (off-label) or experimental uses of drugs or devices during their presentation(s). Specific disclosure will be made in the online program, the hard copy program and at the beginning of each educational Institute or scientific session.