Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Annual Meeting 2009

2009 has been an eventful year, and the major topics of this meeting will reflect the issues you are working diligently with our Federal partners to resolve. Health reform, Novel H1N1 and pandemic preparedness, food safety, wellness, health equity, and prevention will take center stage, with exciting speakers including Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and HRSA Administrator Mary Wakefield.

Based on member feedback, this year's program will feature more interactive sessions and will afford extra time for peer-to-peer discussion and networking. An exciting addition is the new "State Health Policy Swap Shop" to provide proven state health policy resources for confronting serious public health issues to participants. National leaders and State Health Officials who have been there will lead focused discussions on a variety of timely state public health policy issues (e.g., immunizations, injury, nutrition, etc) and share their success stories and resources for getting public health policy passed. At the end of the session, participants will receive a collection of all resources.