Creating the Healthiest Nation: Overcoming Social and Ethical Challenges

Your Guide to APHA Annual Meeting and Expo 2023

New challenges to public health have arisen over the past several years. From threats to democracy, individual rights, and public health authority, to shifting conditions in communities due to COVID-19, the climate crisis, and other social change, the pubic health landscape is changing. How do we build a public health system capable of responding to the challenges of today while improving health, well-being and equity for the future?

Overcoming social and ethical challenges is the theme of the APHA Annual Meeting and Expo 2024. We invite you to explore the below resources as you prepare for the Annual Meeting and Expo.


APHA 2023 is Here!

 

For over 150 years, the American Public Health Association has held an Annual Meeting and Expo. APHA’s Annual Meeting is the premier public health event of the year offering innovative and exciting opportunities to engage with public health experts, collaborate with other advocates and grow professionally.

This year’s focus on creating the healthiest nation by overcoming social and ethical challenges is an opportunity to come together around building public health capacity and addressing the social and ethical challenges that threaten our nation’s health. With a stronger public health infrastructure, we can expand essential prevention and health promotion efforts at the community, state, and federal levels to tackle threats from communicable diseases like COVID-19 and mpox, substance misuse, climate change and health disparities.

Join APHA this November as we come together to overcome these threats to well-being and work to achieve a healthier nation.

In-Person Meeting November 12-15, 2023 – Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta

Digital Meeting November 9-15, 2023 – Online

Join Us

APHA’s Alliance for Disease Prevention and Response is excited to share a few sessions we are supporting during the Annual meeting. Please add these sessions to your annual meeting agenda, can’t wait to see you in Atlanta! 
Imagine a better future for the public health system
Join us to hear about innovative approaches to community engagement and shared leadership, as well as what’s in store for the future of public health!
Monday, November 13
Tuesday, November 14
Wednesday, November 15
Wednesday, November 15
Advocate for public health
Join us to advance your advocacy to protect public health in your state legislature. We will have a chance to learn all about advocacy and how we can practice equity in our advocacy, join us as well for an advocacy themed workshop!
Sunday, November 12
Monday, November 13
Monday, November 13
Tuesday, November 14
Learn about Public Health AmeriCorps
Join us to learn all about the Public Health AmeriCorps program and the ways that the program is bolstering the public health workforce. We will hear from the leaders of the Public Health AmeriCorps program, and the members who are doing the work on the ground.
Monday, November 13
Tuesday, November 14
Tuesday, November 14

Explore the Themes

This toolkit is designed to help the public health community prepare for the APHA Annual Meeting and Expo. Below you’ll find a curated collection of topics and resources designed to enhance your understanding of the conference themes.

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Read. Watch. Listen.

The Annual Meeting agenda is packed with exciting sessions and events. Some highlights for the PHERN Team (beyond our partner sessions above of course 😉) include America Dissected Podcast live recording, the Public Health Film Festival, and the 2023 awards for excellence in public health whose honorees Dolly Parton, Nancy Krieger, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, and other distinguished public health champions. We invite you to explore a curated set of resources intended to get you excited for the 2023 APHA Annual Meeting and Expo!


Shot in the Arm

Shot in the Arm explores vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of our modern pandemic.

America Dissected

On America Dissected, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed explores what’s making us sick and what we’ll need to take on — be it racism, corporate capitalism...

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