Community Health Conference
Past Community Health Conferences
2022: Canceled
MDH and SCHSAC have canceled the 2022 Community Health Conference.
2021: Pivoting to the Future: Opportunity, Complexity, and Working Together
- Pivoting to the Future: Opportunity, Complexity, and Working Together
Tuesday Ryan-Hart and Tim Merry, The Outside; Ned Rousmaniere, Employee Assistance Program
MDH hosted this virtual half-day event in lieu of the 2021 Community Health Conference. Watch the livestream and download materials at the link above.
What did participants think? Event evaluation results: Pivoting to the Future (PPT). When asked for a password, click "read only" to view a read-only version of the evaluation results.
2020: Canceled
MDH and SCHSAC canceled the 2020 Community Health Conference, due to COVID-19.
2019: Examining Roots to Build our Healthy Future
- From Separation to Relationship: How Change Happens in Living Systems
Deborah Frieze - Parental Incarceration is a Shared Sentence. What is the Public Health Response?
Panelists: Bill Hutton (Minnesota Sheriff’s Association), John Soghigian (early childhood resources advocate and parent consultant), and Tierre Webster (Next Chapter Ministries); Moderator: Dawn Beck (Olmsted County)
2018: Creating Healthy Communities Brings Us Together
- Celebrating and challenging public health leadership
Jan Malcolm - Sustaining positive energy and passion for our work
Jeff Linkenbach, EdD
2017: Be Part of the Conversation: Our Stories, Our Communities, Our Health
- Our Stories—Telling our Public Health Stories
David C. Mann - Our Communities—How do you Say Equity in Your Language?
Abigail Echo-Hawk - Our Health—Be Part of the Conversation
Tane Danger and the Theater of Public Policy
2016: From Principle to Practice: Walk the Talk for Health Equity
- Health Care or Health Equity—Which Contributes More to Good Health?
Anthony Iton - Health Equity—Creating a Healthy Community
Renee Frauendienst - Somali Mental Health Findings
Asma Bulale - Minnesota's Aging Population
Craig Helmstetter - My Story—Taking Action in Lake Wobegon
Eric Bergenson
2015: Public Health: Everyone, Every Day, Everywhere
- Health between Cultures
Kao Kalia Yang - All the Water We Have
Sandy Spieler - Partners Roundtable
Kerri Miller, MayKao Hang, Robert Kane, Penny Wheeler
2014: Public Health on the Horizon
- Gov. Mark Dayton and Commissioner Ed Ehlinger
- Native Pride Dancers and Larry Yazzie
- Clem Bezold
2013: Working Together: Attaining Health Equity in Minnesota Communities
- Creating Community at the Conference and Afterward
Shawna Suckow - Health in All Policies: How State Agencies are Creating Opportunities for Health
Health Commissioner Ed Ehlinger, Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Landwehr, Pollution Control Agency Commissioner John Linc Stine, Transportation Commissioner Charlie Zelle - Public Health and Community Organizing: The Evolution of Public Health Practice in the 21st Century
Rex Archer - Telling the Truth about Trauma
Syl Jones
2012: Strengthening Public Health: Linking Past Successes to Future Challenges
- Strengthening Public Health: Linking Past Successes to Future Challenges
Health Commissioner Ed Ehlinger, Past Health Commissioner Sr. Mary Madonna Ashton, Past Health Commissioner Mary Jo O'Brien, Past Health Commissioner Anne Barry, Past Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm, Past Health Commissioner Dianne Mandernach, Past Health Commissioner Sanne Magnan - Synergy across Sectors
Glen P. Mays - Share your Passion for Public Health and Your Community
Andy Berndt - Rethink the Impossible
Billy McLaughlin
2011: inVesting in our Values and Vision
- Holding Gains and Framing the Future: Spotlighting the "A" in PDSA
Tom Mosgaller - Powers of Three: Recreating, Resilience, and Resolve
Magda Peck - The Power of Service in Public Health
Petra Marquart - Calories and Culture: A Worldwide Photographic Journey
Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio
2010: Looking, Leading, Moving Ahead
- Public Health Informatics: What is it and What does it Mean for Me?
Arthur Davidson - If You Think You Can!
Karla Heeter - Minnesota and the New Normal
Tom Gillaspy - Looking, Leading, Moving Ahead: National Perspectives
Paul Jarris, Bobby Pestronk
2009: Surviving and Thriving in Difficult Times
- Public Health 2009: Celebrating Our Achievements and Embracing the Challenge
Linda Olson Keller - Leading from your Soul (Instead of a Position of Authority)
Robin Getman - Institutional Racism: What is it? Why is it Important?
Diana Dunn, John Morrin
2008: Fostering Hope and Facilitating Change: Public Health in the 21st Century
- Laugh! For the Health of it
Robin Getman - Climate Change—Implications for Public Health
Mark Seeley - The Itasca Project—How Business Leaders are Working to "Close the Gap"
Donna Zimmerman
2007: Prevent. Promote. Protect. Public Health at the Crossroads
- Patrick Libbey
- Deputy State Chaplain Maj. John Morris
- Janet Porter
- Tou Ger Xiong
2006: Navigating an Era of Change: Working Together, Making Connections
- Charting a Course through Turbulent Times
Tony Moore - The Healthiest State in the Nation... but What About Tomorrow?
Panel - And the Circle Goes Round and Round
Gloria Lewis - The Art and Science of Humor: Are You Joking?
Kevin Lee Smith
2005: Investing in Our Future—Strong Families, Healthy Communities
- Building Community in the Midst of Diversity: Contact, Culture, Complexity, and Conflict
Juan C. Moreno - The Intersection between Culture, Health, and Well-Being
Panel - "Me" and "Us": Recapturing the Language of Public Health
John R. Finnegan, Jr. - Keeping it All in Perspective
Fr. Nick Mezakapa
2004: Change, Challenge, Opportunity—Leading for the Future
- The Power of One
Janet Porter - CardioVision 2020: A Community Responds to the Lifestyle Syndrome
Thomas E. Kottke - Refugee and Immigrant Health Care in Minnesota
Patricia Walker
2003: Minnesota Prepares
- Protecting the Public from Emerging Threats: Is Minnesota's Public Health System Up to the Job?
Michael Osterholm - When the Going Gets Tough, Who are the Tough that Get Going: State Assets for a Local Emergency Response
John Hick, Aggie Leitheiser, Maj. Thomas Miller, Terri Smith - Local Public Health Preparedness Partners Response Panel
Linda Bedeau, Jo Coover, Denise Dunn, Renee Frauendienst, Dave Gisch, Dave Schuldheisz, Carol Sele - Biological, Chemical, and Radiological Agents
Harry Hull, Patricia Bloomgren
2002: Focusing on the Public Health Partnership and Emergency Preparedness
- Risk Communication about Bioterrorism: Aiming at Calm Concern, Not Outrage, Denial, Apathy, or Panic
Peter Sandman - Public Health Emergency Response Scenario: Who's Responsible for What?
Robert Einweck, Myrlah Olson
2001: Better Health for All
- America's Changing Democracy
Christopher Gates - Building Communities Worth Living In—A Possible Model for Inclusion
Fr. Anthony Stubeda - Cultural Competency for Public Health
Okokon Udo
2000: Working Together—Seeking Solutions
- Social Capital, Social Cohesion, and Health
Ichiro Kawachi - Working Together to Protect Health
Harry Hull
1999: A Century of Progress
- A Century of Progress?
Hy Berman - Knowledge Management: A Strategic Public Health Asset for the New Millennium
Dennis McDowell
1998: Reaching our Goals, Building our Future
- Public Health in the 21st Century: The Future of Goals, Partnerships, and Health
Clem Bezold - Public Health is Investment Counseling
Paul J. Wiesner - Bioterrorism, Media Hype, or Future Nightmare
Michael J. Osterholm
1997: Tradition and Change: Working Together to Improve the Health of Communities
- Leading from Anywhere: Meeting the Needs of the 21st Century
Kathleen Allen - Working Together on Disaster Management: Lessons from the 1997 Floods
Bonnie Holz, Cathlene Hockert, James Feddema, Nancy Bauer, Cal Michaels, JoAnn Coover, Brenda Menier, Mary Sheehan
1996: 20 Years of Partnership: A Rich Heritage, a Vibrant Future
- Public Health in the New American Health System
Jeffrey P Koplan - Violence Prevention and Public Health: Why Should We be Involved?
Rev. Devin Miller - Shaping a Better Future for Minnesota's Children and Families
Barbara Colombo, Barbara Yates, Ann Damon, Mary Wellik
1995: Today's Challenges, Tomorrow's Solutions—Shaping Policy and Practice
- Emerging Infections: A Crisis of Disease or Public Perception
Michael Osterholm - Public Health's Heritage—Public Health's Future
Kristin M. Gebbie, Columbia School of Nursing
1994: Community Health: Moving Ahead in a Competitive Environment
- Working Together in a Competitive Environment
Tyler Norris (National Civic League Healthy Communities Initiative) - Health as a Shared Responsibility
Steve Mosow (Health Futures Institute), Gayle Hallin (Bloomington Division of Public Health), Paul Terry (Park Nicollet Foundation) - Universal Standard Benefits Set
Mary Jo O'Brien, Barbara Nerness, Tom Moss, Dee Richards - Our Key to Well-Being, No Matter What!
Mary O'Brien Sippel (College of St. Scholastica)
1993: Public Health in a Changing World
- Public Health in a Changing World
Julia Plotnick (US Public Health Service) - Violence: Causes and Prevention
Tony Bouza (Minneapolis Chief of Police, ret.)
1992: Public Health—Healthy Investment
- The Secrets of the Sacred Tree: Making the Extraordinary Ordinary
Don Coyhis (White Bison, Inc.) - Wonderland
Illusion Theater - Humor as a Stress Manager
Hal Schippits
1991: Translating Vision into Action—Leadership in Changing Times
- Translating Vision into Action: Leadership in Changing Times
Stephen Joseph (University of Minnesota School of Public Health) - Ethical Leadership in Changing Times
George Shapiro (University of Minnesota)
1990: Community Health: Mission and Vision
- Mission and Vision: A New Look at Leadership
Robert L. Veninga (University of Minnesota School of Public Health) - Minnesota's Vision for Health: Year 2000
Roger Cooper (Minnesota House of Representatives)
1989: Assembling the Public Health Puzzle in the '90s
- The Future of Public Health
Martin P. Wasserman (National Association of County Health Officials) - The "Aging" of Minnesota: Implications for Public Health Needs
Sharon Patten (University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute)
1988: Mobilizing the Community to Promote Health
- Mobilizing the Community to Promote Health
Marshall W. Kreuter (Center for Disease Control) - Advocacy for Pediatric Injury Control
Andrew McGuire (Trauma Foundation)
1987: Collaboration for Quality
- Collaboration: A Key to Effective Leadership in Public Health
Robert Terry (University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute) - A Public Health Challenge: Suicide Among Farmers
Paul Gunderson (Minnesota Dept. of Health)
1986: Ethics and Leadership in Community Health
- Community Health Ethics and Leadership: The Confounding Connection
Robert Terry (University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute) - AIDS: The Client Concerns and Public Policy (Panel)
Eric Engstrom (Minnesota AIDS Project), Michael Moen (Minnesota Dept. of Health)
Michael T. Osterholm, moderator - Modern Public Health's Ethical Dilemma: Is All Change Progress?
Michael T. Osterholm (Minnesota Dept. of Health)
1985: Decision-Making in Community Health
- Decision-Making and Its Importance: Past and Present
Jon Wefald (State University System) - The Future of Dental Health in Minnesota
Richard J. Hastreiter (Minnesota Dept. of Health)
1984: Commitment in Action
- Commitment in Action
Robert J. Orth (St. Paul County Commissioner) - Factors Governing Health Policy and the Effects on the Future Role of Public Health
John Kralewski (University of Minnesota Center for Health Services Research) - Timing: A Lot More than Luck
Dorrine Turecamo (writer, public speaker, management consultant)
1983: Community Health Services: Choices and Challenges
- Politics, Planning, and People: How to Stay Hopeful in Tough Times
Robert L. Veninga (University of Minnesota School of Public Health) - Healthy People: The Minnesota Experience
Paul D. Gunderson (Minnesota Dept. of Health) - Health Costs and Its Sensitivity: Its Impact on Public Health, Acute Health, Care, and Health Wellness Programs
James Kenney (Minnesota Coalition on Health Care Costs) - Health Care and Costs from the Consumer's Perspective
Jerrold M. Peterson (University of Minnesota-Duluth) - The Prevention Revolution: Choices and Challenges
Harold Leppink (St. Louis County Health Department)
1981: Maximizing Resources: The Challenge of the '80s
- Making Stress Work for You: Coping or Copping Out
Paul H. Cashman (University of Minnesota) - Marketing Health Programs
William Flexner (Flexner and Associates)
1980: Third Annual Boards of Health Meeting
- Boardsmanship
Phyllis Acker (Governor's Office of Volunteer Services)
1979: Developing Community Health Services: An Intergovernmental Responsibility
- Individual Responsibility and Government Interventions
Lowell Levin (Yale University School of Medicine) - Intergovernmental Relations in Health
Kathleen Sheehan (Office of Federal and State Relations), Ronald Benjamin (CMS), John Dilley (State Health Planning and Development Agency), George R. Pettersen (Commissioner of Health), Ray Cink (Ramsey County Community Health Service Agency) - Tools for Evaluation
Duane Johnson (Minnesota Dept. of Health), Ellen Z. Fifer (Minnesota Dept. of Health), Dave Hovet (Minnesota Dept. of Health), William Rush (Minnesota Dept. of Health)
1978: First Annual Minnesota Boards of Health Meeting
- Opening Address
Gov. Rudy Perpich - Assessing Community Health Services Development
Cliff Halmrast, Vernon Haglund, Bob Orth, Norm Anderson
Jim Shipman (Association of Minnesota Counties), moderator - The Role of Boards of Health and Physicians in Community Health Services
George Pickett (APHA Past President) - Panel: Physicians in Community Health
Ellen Alkon, John Thomas, George Pettersen
Bob Hiller (Minnesota Dept. of Health), moderator - Building a Community Health Services System: Issues and Relationships
Fannie Kakela, Margaret Welch, Ray Eckes
Jerome Crest (Douglas-Grant-Stevens-Traverse Community Health Services Agency), moderator - Federal Perspective of Health Education
Horace Ogden (Department of HEW, Atlanta, GA) - 1979 Legislative Preview
Warrent R. Lawson (Commissioner of Health), Cynthia Whiteford (Minnesota Dept. of Public Welfare), Lovell Richie (Minnesota Pollution Control Agency), Peter Vanderpoel (Minnesota State Planning Agency)