Lead Public Health: Invitation to Informational Forum‏

CPHA MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO

Lead Public Health

An informational forum where local, state and national experts will discuss foundational capabilities of public health departments and opportunities to strengthen Connecticut’s public health system.

This is a unique opportunity to hear from leading experts about innovative ways public health and municipal leaders from across the country are collaborating and using resources to assure the conditions in which all people can be healthy.

Date: February 7, 2014
When: 11:30 am – 2:30 pm(lunch will be served 11 :30 am – 12:30 pm in the private dining room)
Where: Room 1-D, Legislative Office Building, 300 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106
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Registration: Email your name and contact information to [email protected] with the words "Lead Public Health" in the subject line. For any questions, please call 860-509-7270 or 860-509-7101.

SPEAKERS

Patrick Libbey
Patrick Libbey is the Co-Director of the Center for Sharing Public Health Services. He is also Clinical Instructor in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health. Prior to coming to the University of Washington and NWCPHP, Mr. Libbey served as the Executive Director of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) from September 2002 through 2008. Before that, he served as the Director of the Thurston County Public Health and Social Services Department in Olympia, Washington. Mr. Libbey also served as a founder and incorporating board member of the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB). Mr. Libbey holds a Bachelor’s degree in Community Development and Public Health Administration from the Evergreen State College.

Carmen Hooker Odom
Carmen Hooker Odom most recently served as Advisor to the President of the Milbank Memorial Fund, a New York-based foundation that conducts nonpartisan analysis, study, and research on significant issues in health policy. She formerly served as President of the Fund. Prior to joining the Fund in 2007, she was appointed the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services by Governor Mike Easley in January 2001. Ms. Hooker Odom, a former Massachusetts lawmaker and healthcare lobbyist, has spent her professional life working in health and human services. Before her appointment, she served as Vice President of Government Relations for Quintiles Transnational Corporation in Research Triangle Park and as the Group Vice President for Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS). She is also an Adjunct Professor at the UNC School of Public Health. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Hooker Odom worked as a Project Officer for the Milbank Memorial Fund. Prior to moving to North Carolina in 1995, Ms. Hooker Odom served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for nearly eleven years. She was the primary legislative author of both the 1991 Massachusetts comprehensive health reform legislation and the Children’s Medical Security Plan, which targeted young children not covered by medical insurance. Ms. Hooker Odom co-chaired the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission and is a member of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine.

The forum is hosted by the Connecticut Department of Public Health and legislative and executive branch leaders serving as a team sponsored by the Aspen Institute’s Excellence in Public Health Law Program.

Connecticut Department of Public Health
410 Capitol Avenue, PO Box 340308, Hartford, CT 06134
Phone : 860-509-8000