M E M O
TO: Members of CPHA-N
RE: Ballot for Elective Offices
DATE: March 4, 2008
Dear Colleagues,
We have attached the ballot and information for the CPHA-N elective offices for 2008. We have also included this in the 'body' of this message below if that is easier to reference and use.
Click here to download the ballot for the 2008 CPHA-N election
Please review these and cast your votes by March 21, 2008. You must return the completed ballot to the CPHA-N Office Email address: office@cphan.org by March 21, 2008. If you wish to print the ballot out it can be mailed to the CPHA-N Office at 555 12th Street, 10th Floor Oakland CA 94607. All responses will be separated from any identifying information to maintain confidentiality.
Please review the ballot and the accompanying candidates’ statements of those members of the Governing Council who are seated via election rather than appointment. If you wish to add a write-in candidate, please do so.
This is an unusually late mailing for this ballot, due, in part, to several transitions occurring within your organization’s infrastructure and competing activities surrounding the development of the exciting annual meeting scheduled for March 13-14, 2008, on the UC Davis campus. This event, entitled "Health at the Nexus: Climate Change, Land Use, Sustainability and Public Health" will be very information-packed. We hope that you can be part of it.
Members often ask why we don’t have competing candidates for various positions. We try to do so but that depends on interested members coming forward or responding to requests to run. Please think about getting involved next year—there are many opportunities to help on committees and Sections, such as Continuing Education or Oral Health or Public Health Nursing.
Thank you for your continuing membership and support.
Sincerely,
Giorgio Piccagli, PhD, MPH
President, California Public Health Association-North
Click here to download the ballot for the 2008 CPHA-N election
BALLOT
Governing Council Slate of Officers 2008
Write-in: _______________________________________
President Elect* Giorgio Piccagli, PhD, MPH Yes__ No__ * _________
Vice President-Operations Dave Spath, PhD, MS Yes__ No__ _________
Vice President-Programs Jacquolyn Duerr, MPH Yes__ No__ __________
Treasurer Mona Mena, MPH Yes__ No__ __________
Secretary Jo Kerner, RDH, MA Yes__ No__ __________
Director at Large (1) Paul English, PhD, MPH Yes__ No__ __________
Director at Large (2) Diana Conti Yes__ No__ __________
*In order to allow the current President elect to serve a third year, we must have him run again for President Elect.
If you wish to write in a candidate’s name for any elective office, please do so underneath the nominee’s name for each office you are selecting. Thank you.
Candidates’ bios/statements appear at the end of this ballot, in the order of the office they are seeking.
All the Governing Council members listed below are either serving the second year of a two-year term, the second year of a three-year term (ARGC) have been appointed to their positions (liaison functions), serve by virtue of their committee chair responsibilities, or have moved into their positions by virtue of completing previous service (Past President).
Past President Giorgio Piccagli, PhD, MPH
President Elect Giorgio Piccagli, PhD, MPH
Affiliate Representative to the (APHA) Governing Council (ARGC) Robert Benjamin, MD, MPH
Non-elected Positions
Committee Chairs
Membership Glenn I. Hildebrand, MPH
Bylaws Eileen Eastman, MA
Public Health Nursing (Acting Chair) Joan Edelstein, DrPH, MSN, RN
Continuing Education Joan Edelstein, DrPH, MSN, RN
Legislative Martin Martinez, MPP
Oral Health Howard Pollick, BDS, MPH
Occupational & Environmental Health David Harrington, MPH
Liaisons
CA Conference of Local Health Officers Roberta Lawson, RD
Office of Statewide Planning & Development Michael Rodrian, PhD
UC Berkeley, School of Public Health Patricia Hosel, MPA
UC Berkeley, School of Public Health, Alumni Association David Harrington, MPH
UC Davis, Dept of Public Health Sciences John Troidl, PhD, MBA
CA Center for Public Health Advocacy Adele Amodeo, MPH
Universal Health Care Ellen Shaffer, PhD
NCSOPHE Elizabeth Edwards, MPH, CHES
California Medicine and Public Health Forum Lisa Benton, MD, MPH
Candidates’ Bios/Statements
Giorgio Piccagli, PhD, MPH; Candidate for President Elect
This has been a very successful year. Thanks to the work of many of our Governing Council members (more about them at the Annual Meeting), we have:
Won a competitive multi-year grant with our sister organization, the Southern California Public Health Association a. to create a capacity to deal with statewide health issues and b. to expand our Continuing Education efforts across the state,
Been selected to pilot a joint membership project with APHA allowing individuals to become members of both APHA and CPHAN for less than APHA alone
Established regular publication of member newsletter
Successfully sued to get public health a place at the table dealing with trade agreements and their public health consequences
Delivered a very successful joint annual meeting in Southern California
Successfully supported the establishment of a regional Public Health Institute.
Those accomplishments have come with a number of challenges, largely focused on CPHA-N’s capacity to address the many issues affecting the health of the public. We have faced financial constraints, increasing work pressures that reduce our supply of volunteers, and turnover with its attendant loss of institutional memory.
I am running because I would like to help institutionalize our successes and surmount our continuing limitations as a volunteer organization.
I believe the following are important priorities:
Strengthening an independent, member-driven voice for the public’s health – this requires many things, foremost among them, a quick deployment ability to speak to issues and a quick way to reach our members
Creation of a capacity to address statewide health issues – this requires greater collaboration with our sister organizations, SCPHA and APHA
Speeding our ability to bring to bear our own and our partners’ capacity in three continuing priorities (support for public health infrastructure, universal access to care, and the elimination of public health disparities) and three important topical concerns (global warming, obesity and the effects of the built environment), and
Creation of a robust Association infrastructure.
Some of you will have seen my bio in earlier years. My main qualifications are that I have the time, the will, and the means to devote to this task. My public health credentials include experience in community, governmental and academic public health and leadership experience in a broad variety of organizations. I am currently in private practice as a negotiation trainer, mediator, and organization consultant.
David P. Spath, Ph.D., Candidate for VP- Operations
I have a B. S. in Civil Engineering from Tufts University and a M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in Civil & Environmental Engineering. I worked for the California Department of Health Services from 1972 until I retired in 2005, principally in the area of drinking water. At the time of my retirement I was Chief of the Division of Drinking Water & Environmental Management. I was responsible for overseeing the State’s Public Water System Regulatory Program as well as the State’s Medical Waste Regulatory Program, Shellfish Production and Harvesting Operations Program, Recreational Health Program (swimming pools and ocean beaches); State Institutions Program (provides sanitary surveillance of state institutions), Indoor Radon Program, and the Nuclear Emergency Response Program. I was a member of US Environmental Protection Agency’s National Drinking Water Advisory Council from 1998 and 2003 and served as the chair of the Council from 2000 to 2003. I also served as president of the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators from 1999 to 2001.
My interests span the fields of both public and environmental health . My 33 years working for the state health department provided me with an appreciation of the interrelationship between pubic and environmental health and the need for close collaboration between the two disciplines. Issues such as water quality and food safety and communicable disease transmission are examples of the types of interrelationships with which I was involved during my tenure. In the future issues such as climate change will undoubtedly bring new public and environmental health challenges that will need to be addressed through a collaborative effort of public and environmental health professionals. I believe that my three plus decades of experience in the environmental health field and my close working relationship with my counterparts in public health over that period will be a significant asset to the Association particularly in the position of Vice President-Operations.
Jacquolyn Duerr, MPH Candidate for VP - Programs
Ms. Duerr has been a member of California Public Health Association-North for the past two decades. For the past three years, she has been on the Governing Council and Vice President for Programs. In this position, she has helped plan and host the Association’s annual conferences.
Currently, Ms. Duerr is Acting Chief, Epidemiology and Prevention for Injury Control (EPIC) Branch, California Department of Public Health Services. She oversees California’s injury prevention programs that address all violence including child maltreatment and violence against women, traffic and pedestrian safety, increase safe opportunities for physical activity, and land use and community design. For the prior seven years, she served as Assistant Chief, Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Control, California Department of Health Services (DHS), which houses California’s prevention programs in the areas of tobacco control, nutrition and physical activity efforts, cancer early detection, and cancer surveillance.
She led the design and implementation of the California Breast Cancer Early Detection Program, which provided cancer screening to low-income women, developed clinical standards, and delivered provider education. Earlier, she oversaw the first media campaign for the DHS Tobacco Control Program. This campaign supported the passage of many local smoke-free ordinances and other public policies restricting smoking and sales to minors.
She worked with the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs on a project to integrate health, welfare, and children's services for drug-addicted women and their children. She was the first program officer for Sierra Foundation for Health, based in Sacramento. For five years, she worked for the DHS County Health Services program, where she distributed State funding to underwrite county health department services. She also helped develop and implement a medically indigent program for more than 30 of the State's smaller counties and their low-income health services programs.
She has a Master’s of Public Health degree from the University of California--Berkeley.
Jo Kerner, RDH, MA Candidate for Secretary
Jo Kerner has had a rich and varied career in the dental field over the past forty years. Trained as a dental hygienist at the University of California at Berkeley and the UC School of Dentistry at UCSF, she practiced clinical dental hygiene for twenty-five years before earning a master’s degree in values from San Francisco Theological Seminary. She then became an assistant clinical professor in the dental school at UCSF, followed by employment with Aetna Dental Care of California as a manager and COO of California dental plans. Hired by Brown & Toland Medical Services Organization as a consultant, she went on to own her own practice- management consulting business for several years before beginning employment with Alameda County Public Health Department in 2001.
Jo currently is responsible for a staff of county employees and volunteers who provide preventive dental services in the Alameda County schools. The dental program provides dental screening, sealants, fluoride, dental referrals and classroom-based dental health education to elementary schools with a student population at least half of which is eligible for Medicaid. The Alameda County Public Health Department is one of the first health departments in California to employ a dental assistant (registered and certified) to place sealants in a school setting under a new state law.
She has served as CPHA-N Secretary for the past two calendar years.
Mona Mena, MPH; Candidate for Treasurer
Mona Mena, MPH, MSW has worked in the field of public health since 1982. She is currently working as a Program Specialist for Alameda County Public Health Department, Emergency Medical Services in injury prevention, built environment and disaster preparedness. She worked in the field of maternal, child and adolescent health for over 20 years, focusing on perinatal health care and teenage pregnancy & parenting programs in the Bay Area.
Mona has been a member of the California Public Health Association-North Governing Council for over 10 years, serving as Vice President-Operations, Treasurer, and Vice President-Program. She has helped plan various CPHA-N conferences and was Chair of the Family Health Section.
Paul English, PhD, MPH; Candidate for Director at Large (1)
Dr. Paul English is Chief of the Epidemiologic Investigations Unit, Environmental Health Investigations Branch at the California Department of Public Health. He has a PhD in epidemiology and an MPH in epidemiology/biostatistics both from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Principal Investigator of a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to begin to lay the framework for establishing an Environmental Health Tracking Network for California. He also has a grant funded by the National Cancer Institute to investigate exposure assessment methods for cancer research. His primary interests include health effects of traffic-related pollutants, environmental health surveillance, spatial patterns of disease, and environmental correlates of male reproductive health.
Diana Conti, Candidate for Director-at-Large (2)
Diana Conti is currently Executive Director of Parca (serving people with developmental disabilities) and principal of the Conti Consulting Group for public policy. She has 30 years experience as executive director of community based organizations including alcohol, tobacco and other drug; mental health; and public health services for low-income and disadvantaged populations. She was also Deputy Drug Program Coordinator for Sonoma County.
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