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June 2009

National Health Observances for June 2009
Source: 2009 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
June 24 to 25, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia

National Association of School Nurses 41st Annual Conference
"Transforming School Communities: Partners for Student Success”
June 25 to 28, 2007
Boston, Massachusetts

Conference tracks include:

• Health Promotion - Promoting health in today's fast paced, dynamically changing environment
• Leadership/Legal - Strategies and information for school nurses to build leadership skills and enhance understanding of laws and policies affecting school health
• Practice - Innovative strategies for school nurses to replicate in their schools
• Research - Current research that may be useful, and possibly implemented in practice

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AcademyHealth, Annual Research Meeting (ARM)
June 28 to 30, 2009
Chicago, Illinois

The Annual Research Meeting (ARM) features more than 100 sessions focused on 21 themes. The agenda is available online at www.academyhealth.org/arm/agenda. The ARM is the premier forum for health services research, and brings together more than 2,200 health services researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners to address critical challenges of cost, quality, and access within the U.S. health system.

Conference themes include:

• Behavioral Health
• Child Health
• Consumer Choices in Health Care
• Coverage & Access
• Disparities
• Gender & Health
• Global Health
• Health Care Markets & Competition
• Health Care Workforce
• Health Information Technology
• Long-Term Care
• Medicaid, SCHIP & State Health Reform
• Medicare
• Military & Veterans Health Care
• Obesity Prevention & Treatment
• Organizational Performance & Management
• Prevention & Treatment of Chronic Illness
• Public Health
• Quality & Efficiency: Measurement
• Quality & Efficiency: Organized Processes
• Quality & Efficiency: Policies & Incentives

Safety 2009 Professional Development Conference & Exposition
June 28 to July 1, 2009
San Antonio, Texas

Over 225 sessions will cover the latest information related to academics, construction, consulting, engineering, environment, ergonomics, fire protection, healthcare, hospitality, industrial hygiene, international, management, manufacturing, mining, oil & gas, public sector & government, risk management & insurance, training & communication, and transportation.

Eighth Annual Public Health Systems Research Interest Group Meeting
June 30 to July 1, 2009
Chicago, Illinois

Scientific sessions and poster presentations will take place on Tuesday, June 30. On July 1st, the PHSR Interest Group is also offering a special methods workshop focused on PHSR data and use.

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July 2009

National Health Observances for July 2009
Source: 2009 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH) 17th Annual Conference
"Improving Public Health Through Leadership and Knowledge"
July 1 to 3, 2009
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Conference tracks include:

• Board Governance
• Community Health
• Environmental Health
• Preparedness

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Unity Conference
“Community Health Workers - Celebrating Our Past and Charting the Future”
July 27 to 29, 2009
St. Louis, Missouri

Unity 2009 is a national conference designed for and about community health workers. It will address the role community health workers play in strengthening and enhancing public health in times of healthcare provider shortages, tight budgets, and impending public health crises. The conference will stress the importance of community health workers to the health care and human services delivery systems; ways to develop and sustain CHW programs; strength-based responses to community health shortfalls; new and emerging roles for CHWs; and methods of overcoming barriers to CHW program success.

CDC's Inaugural Conference on Obesity Prevention and Control
"Weight of the Nation"
July 27 to 29, 2009
Washington, DC

The conference objectives are:

• Highlight strategies that overcome barriers to the primary prevention of obesity for youth and adults in communities, medical care, schools, and workplaces
• Provide economic analysis of obesity prevention and control efforts (e.g., cost burden of obesity on healthcare system and employers, cost effectiveness of prevention)
• Provide forum to share promising, emerging, and best practices for setting specific policy and environmental initiatives impacting obesity
• Highlight the use of law-based efforts to prevent and control obesity (e.g., legislation, regulation and policies)
  

National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) 2009 Annual Conference
"The New Public Health – Working Across Sectors to Leverage Investment in Communities"
July 29 to 31, 2009
Orlando, Florida

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August 2009

National Health Observances for August 2009
Source: 2009 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

American Association of Diabetes Educators 36th Annual Meeting and Exhibition
"Exploring New Dimensions"
August 5 to 8, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia

Investigate the latest behavioral techniques for educating and motivating patients. The event includes more than 120 knowledge-based educational sessions.

American Psychological Association 117th Annual Convention
August 6 to 9, 2009
Toronto, Canada

National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media 2009
August 11 to 13, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia

Conference Objectives:

• Provide an environment to present findings and recommendations from health communication, marketing, and media research.
• Offer participants an opportunity to network as well as promote information sharing and interdisciplinary collaboration within the health communication, marketing, and media communities.
• Advance the practice of health communication, marketing, and media through sharing exemplary programs.

Public Health Information Network Conference
"Informatics: Investment for the Future"
August 30 to September 3, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia

Event Objectives:

• Extend the reach of innovative public health informatics practices
• Summarize current issues and trends in the field of public health informatics
• Translate issues and opportunities in public health informatics and health information technology for public health practitioners and policy makers
• Facilitate the development of a community focused on accelerating the field of public health informatics
• Validate public health informatics activities at international, national, state and local levels through open source collaboration and community building
• Integrate knowledge gained to leverage resources for sustainability of information technology, workforce development, and human capital

National Trauma Institute Annual Symposium
August 31 to September 2, 2009
San Antonio, Texas

This event is presented by the National Trauma Institute. The purpose is to improve patient care by funding research, changing practice and creating awareness for trauma. This symposium offers trauma care providers the means to update their knowledge of newly introduced techniques and technology to improve the care of trauma victims. It is a unique blend of military and civilian speakers and topics.

Symposium Learning Objectives:

• Discuss advances in trauma care in their area of practice
• Identify mass casualty innovations in the civilian and military setting
• Apply concepts from military and civilian trauma case studies to their practice setting
• Describe lessons learned from military and civilian mass casualty responses
• Identify primary and secondary measures in mass casualty incident planning

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September 2009

National Health Observances for September 2009
Source: 2009 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) 34th Annual Educational Conference
"Deep in the Heart of Quality"
September 13 to 16, 2009
Grapevine, Texas

Conference objectives:

• apply evidenced-based methodologies and measurement tools to improve healthcare outcomes
• explore strategies for successfully leading and collaborating with others on healthcare improvement
• discover emerging trends in patient safety, accreditation and regulation, and healthcare quality across the continuum

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October 2009

National Health Observances for October 2009
Source: 2009 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

2009 Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) Annual Meeting
October 13 to 16, 2009
Vienna, Virginia

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Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) 53rd Annual Meeting
October 19 to 23, 2009
San Antonio, Texas

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
October 21 to 22, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia

Many Faces of Community Health Conference
October 22 to 23, 2009
Minneapolis, Minnesota

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November 2009

National Health Observances for November 2009
Source: 2009 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

2009 AICR Research Conference on Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity & Cancer
November 5 to 6, 2009
Washington, D.C.

Work, Stress and Health 2009: Global Concerns and Approaches
November 5 to 8, 2009
San Juan, Puerto Rico

The Work, Stress, and Health conference series is designed to address the constantly changing nature of work and the implications of these changes for the health, safety, and well-being of workers. This year the conference will highlight work, stress, and health as a subject of global concern affecting developed and developing countries alike. Numerous topics of interest to labor, management, practitioners, and researchers are covered in the series, such as work and family issues, workplace violence, long hours of work, the aging workforce, and best practices for preventing stress and improving the health of workers and their organizations.

American Public Health Association 137th Annual Meeting & Expo
"Water and Public Health: the 21st Century Challenge"
November 7 to 11, 2009
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Annual Meeting consists of more than 900 scientific sessions, roundtables, poster sessions, institutes and panel discussions at which over 4,000 scientific papers will be presented.

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American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2009 Annual Symposium
November 14 to 18, 2009
San Francisco, California

The program will feature keynote speakers, papers, panels, tutorials, workshops, posters, presentations by members of the American College of Medical Informatics, demonstrations, partnerships in innovation presentations, and late breaking sessions reporting on the newest findings in the field of biomedical and health informatics related to the following themes:

• Clinical Decision Support, Outcomes, and Patient Safety
• Clinical Research Informatics
• Clinical Workflow and Human Factors
• Consumer Informatics and PHRs
• Data Integration and Exchange
• Data Mining, NLP, Information Extraction
• Education
• EHR and CPOE systems
• 20/20 Global e-Health Informatics Capacity Building
• Informatics, Discovery, Innovation, and Industry
• Policy and Ethical Issues
• Public Health Informatics and Biosurveillance
• Terminology and Standards
• Translational Bioinformatics

2009 National Association for the Education of Young Children Annual Conference & Expo
November 18 to 21, 2009
Washington, DC

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting
November 18 to 22, 2009
Washington, DC

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December 2009

National Health Observances for December 2009
Source: 2009 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

Seventh Annual International Council on Active Aging Conference
December 2 to 5, 2009
Orlando, Florida

Seminar tracks include the following:

Brain health
Facility & community planning & development
Increasing participation
Management & leadership
Marketing
Outdoor programming
Practice of programming
Science of programming
Wellness

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