Welcome to the Yale Public Health Systems & Services Research Conference website. The conference took place at the Hyatt Arlington at Washington’s Key Bridge on June 11 – 12, 2008. You can download conference materials by clicking the links below.

• Conference agenda
• List of Attendees

Presentations

To download conference presentations, click the links below.

• Glen Mays - The Current State of Public Health Systems & Services Research
• Pat Remington - Translating Research into Practice
• David Helms – Evolution of Health Services Research and AcademyHealth’s Role
• Tony Iton – Panel: Challenges Facing Public Health Leaders
• Douglas Scutchfield – Issues and Challenges Facing the Field of Public Health Systems and Services Research
• Jim Studnicki - Issues and Challenges Facing the Field of Public Health Systems and Services Research
• Garth Graham and Peggy Honore – Role for Health and Human Service Partners
• Eva Lee – To Be Posted Soon
• Bill Yasnoff – Panel: Possible Applications of Data Information Technology
• Douglas Scutchfield - Panel: Data Harmonization and How to Integrate Learning from State, County, and Local Health Agencies
• Paul Jarris - Panel: Data Harmonization and How to Integrate Learning from State, County, and Local Health Agencies
• Carolyn Leep – Panel: Data Harmonization and How to Integrate Learning from State, County, and Local Health Agencies

Background Materials

• Core Functions and Essential Services of Public Health
• US DHHS & The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Expert Panel on Public Health Systems Research, Summary of the Initial Meeting, February 2007
• US DHHS/OMH & The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Public Health Systems Research Expert Panel Summary and Recommendations, February 2008
• Public Health Finance Resources

Papers

• Honore PA. Amy BW. Public health finance: fundamental theories, concepts, and definitions. Journal of Public Health Management & Practice. 13(2):89-92, 2007.
  Sustainability of the public health system is intrinsically tied to public health finance. As such, the public health system needs to embrace an agenda to further advance public health finance, so that its concepts will be better embraced as core values of public health. An agenda for doing so includes focusing on changes in leadership, education, research and management practices.
• Kindig (1999), AHSR Presidential Speech: Beyond Health Services Research
  From David Kindig’s Presidential address to the Association for Health Services Research (AHSR) published in the April 1999 issue of HSR.This article led to the subsequent AHSR Committee chaired by Kathleen Lohr and Donald Steinwachs which adopted the current definition for the field of HSR in June, 2000.
• Lenaway D. Halverson P. Sotnikov S. Tilson H. Corso L. Millington W. Public health systems research: setting a national agenda. American Journal of Public Health. 96(3):410-3, 2006.
• Lohr KN. Steinwachs DM. Health services research: an evolving definition of the field. Health Services Research. 37(1):7-9, 2002.
  Published in the February 2002 issue of HSR. David Helms requested that the AHSR Committee be established to address definitional issues that arose during the merger between AHSR and Alpha Center in the search for an appropriate name for the entity we now call AcademyHealth. The issue then was whether having “services” in the health services research name signaled that we were more concerned about medical services than we were about population and public health. David Kindig’s address (see above publication) had made this point and the leadership overseeing the merger wanted to make clear that the field of HSR does include population and public health.
• Mays GP. Halverson PK. Scutchfield FD. Behind the curve? What we know and need to learn from public health systems research. Journal of Public Health Management & Practice. 9(3):179-82, 2003.
  Provides an examination of the nature of public health systems research and the potential lessons from this emerging field of inquiry.
• Nasca PC. Current problems that are likely to affect the future of epidemiology. American Journal of Epidemiology. 146(11):907-11, 1997.

PHSSR Web Links

www.publichealthsystems.org

Questions?

Contact:
Tara Liptak tara.liptak@yale.edu or 203-887-1353 or
Tammy Yahner tammy.yahner@yale.edu 717-793-0558