Past, Present, and Future: Collaborations among

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Past, Present, and Future Collaborations among
national student and professional organizations.
January 10, 2004, Washington, DC Jay H.
Glasser, PhD , MS President, MPHI
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Catalyzed by a talk presented by Roy Schwarz, MD
Medicine and Public Health a Costly
Estrangement
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THE APHA and AMA Medicine and Public Health
Initiative
Building sustainable national and state alliances
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Inter-disciplinary, Inclusive, and Proactive
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The Three Major Goals

• EDUCATION
• Graduate and Undergraduate
• Continuing Practice
• APPLIED RESEACH
• Cross discipline
• Translational
• COMMUNITY DEMONSTRATION
• Outcomes and Evaluation
• Population based health

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OPEN ARCHITECTURE AND COMMUNICATION NETWORK
The Medicine Public Health Initiative
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Dateline 9/11 NYC Awaiting the injured who
never came
Rethinking not only preparednesswe TRULY are at
the CUSP
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OLD STYLE
PANDEMICS
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At the Gates - Our Safety Depends on Eternal
Vigilance
Public Health is largely responsible for the
greatest increases in human life span But is
Invisible to the public
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THEN AND NOW the story of the WORLD TOBACCO
CONVENTION, AUGUST COLUMN the Power to Move
ideas

• Worlds greatest
• preventable cause
• of death
• But as a society we
• vacillate on
• control
• economics
• prevention

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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1992
1992
Source Mokdad A H, et al. J Am Med Assoc
199928216, 200128610.
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2001
2001
Source Mokdad A H, et al. J Am Med Assoc
199928216, 200128610.
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MPHI POWER GRID Analogyfuture shock is now

• Grid needs to be powered up
• The Potential can be tapped

• The ideal is also practical

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The Nation's Health Dollars Est.2002 1.7
Trillion Dollars Where It Came From
ESTABLISH The PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST FUND
Distribution
Size of Sums in play
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LEADERSHIP and SCIENCE BASED ACCOUNTABILITY
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A HOUSE DIVIDED CANNOT STAND Abraham Lincoln
Probability of Being Uninsured for Population
Under Age 65, By State, 1977-1999
Bettina I will add one on Children too
Enormous at risk populations
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How to assure equity in health opportunity and
realities?
UNIVERSAL ACCESS No Community Left
Behind Follow wise Ben Franklin 1900 The
National Commission on Public Health
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Amazing Technology BIG BIOLOGYboon and bane for
Community Health
The 50th anniversary Of Watson and Crick DNA
Double Helix paper For Heal Professionals an
unlimited future with delimited funding
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Demographic Dynamics are Increasing Demands and
Diversity culture, cohorts, cities..
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70 million Baby Boomers
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Knowledge Management Information doubles every
three years
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Education Forum
Discusses issues affecting Community and Public
Health, with a special focus on education.
We can make a difference.
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Your Role is Especially Important
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Raise the bar for performance standards, The
demographics facing the workforce 25 to 50
retirement eligible Educational needs, career
ladders, advocacy
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Environmental Challenges we are living on the
space ship earth, reuniting health and
occupational and environmental professionals
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13.4 Million Children Worldwide Have Lost One or
Both Parents to AIDS
Chinese orphan sole caretaker of his HIV - AIDS
infected grandfather Blurring Local and Global
Boundaries, what is the role of governments?
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CREATING CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
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Impacting Health in the Information Age 125
million Americans regularly go on the web for
health information
The next generation is born in the info-age We
are immigrants to cyber-land
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For MPHI it is Back to the Future student
leadership matters joining hands is both
visionary and practical