18th Annual
Joint Conference on Health
“Building Community Together-Creating Opportunities for Better Health”
October 17 & 18, 2011
Vancouver, WA
“Creating the Connection between Health and Healthcare: IHI’s Triple Aim” Jeff Selberg, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of Institute of Healthcare Improvement
”The State of Washington’s Health” with State Secretary of Health Mary Selecky, Mary Ann Lindebald, BSN, MPH of DSHS and Heidi Robbins Brown, JD of WA Healthcare Authority
“The Future of Public Health: Now More Than Ever” Dr. Howard Frumkin, Dean of UW School of Public Health
Background
The Washington State Joint Conference on Health was conceived in 1994 when the Infectious Disease Conference (later expanded to include non-infectious conditions), the Data Users Conference, and the Washington State Public Health Association decided to consolidate their training offerings into one event. In recent years, direct coordination with the Washington State Department of Health and other partners has increased offerings to public health professionals across Washington for a single, in-state, affordable event, the only one of its kind in Washington.
JCH 2011 Objectives
- Understand how to use data for program and agency decision-making and continuous quality improvement
- Identify ways to use and apply technology effectively
- Identify ways to create conditions in which healthy choices are the easy choices
- Identify approaches that impact multiple health issues, working across internal and external agency boundaries
- Identify strategies to train staff and hire a workforce to meet current needs
- Define key qualities of those who lead change in times of reduced resources
- Identify how health care reform can be used to increase our reach and impact on health
- Identify innovative ways to reorganize to address changing priorities in rural and urban settings
- Describe future thinking for how communities can respond to improving the health of the public
Cross disciplinary Tracks
- Assessment, evaluation and quality improvement
- Environmental health (including built environment)
- New solutions (today’s issues with different solutions)
- Community work (partnerships, policies, advocacy)
- Use of technology (IT, media, marketing, surveillance)
- Workforce development (including leadership skills)