2005 PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE

描述(由申请人提供)： 军官协会(COA)计划在宾夕法尼亚州费城温德姆·富兰克林广场举行一次全国公共卫生会议。PHS委任军官基金会(COF)将为11个不同类别的委任军官组织一个为期一天的“会议中的会议”。整个会议的目标是为卫生专业人员提供一个场所，讨论影响国际、国家、部落、州和地方公共卫生官员的问题，并分享应对重大公共卫生挑战的想法、模型、研究和方法。代表们将在为期四天的全体会议和研讨会上讨论关键的公共卫生议题。COF为医生、护士、药剂师、牙医、环境卫生官员、科学家、工程师等提供了一天特定职业主题的机会。没有类似的论坛可以将来自不同背景的政府公共卫生提供者聚集在一起，讨论交叉问题和问题。面对日益复杂的公共卫生挑战，这次会议对维护国家公共卫生系统至关重要。 COA为受托医疗队的成员提供服务，该受托医疗队由大约5900名卫生保健专业人员组成，其中包括医生、护士、科学家、牙医、工程师、卫生师、药剂师、兽医、营养师、治疗师和卫生服务官员，他们在全球所有50个州和550多个地点服务。该军团为公共卫生服务的八个机构、美国海岸警卫队医务人员、联邦监狱管理局、环境保护局、移民和归化局以及其他国际和国家机构提供官员服务。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Commissioned Officers Association (COA) is planning a national public health conference to be held at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The PHS Commissioned Officers Foundation (COF) will be sponsoring a one-day "conference within a conference" for the eleven different categories of the commissioned corps. The goal of the overall conference is to provide a venue for health professionals to discuss issues affecting international, national, tribal, state, and local public health officials and to share ideas, models, research, and approaches to addressing critical public health challenges. Representatives will convene to discuss in plenary and workshop sessions over four days critical public health topics. COF is providing an opportunity for a day of profession-specific topics for physicians, nurses, pharmacist, dentists, environmental health officers, scientists, engineers, and more. No comparable forum that exists for bringing together government public health providers from these various backgrounds to discuss cross-cutting problems and issues. In the face of increasingly complex public health challenges this conference is critical to maintaining the nation's public health system. The COA serves the members of the Commissioned Corps, which consists of approximately 5900 health care professionals comprised of physicians, nurses, scientists, dentists, engineers, sanitarians, pharmacists, veterinarians, dieticians, therapists, and health services officers who serve in all 50 states and more than 550 locations worldwide. The Corps provides officers to serve in the eight agencies of the Public Health Service, the U.S. Coast Guard medical staff, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the EPA, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and other international and national agencies.