February 2005 Frontline - Commissioned Officers Association
February 2005 Frontline - Commissioned Officers Association
February 2005 Frontline - Commissioned Officers Association
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Benefits of Your<br />
COA Membership<br />
CAPITOL HILL REPRESENTATION<br />
COA legislation on Capitol Hill continually<br />
supports all <strong>Commissioned</strong> Corps officersactive,<br />
inactive reserve, and retired.<br />
LOCAL REPRESENTATION<br />
COA branches generate new venues for<br />
meeting fellow officers within your local<br />
area while providing a forum for the<br />
discussion of concerns within the<br />
<strong>Commissioned</strong> Corps.<br />
FINANCIAL PLANNING SEMINARS<br />
COA sponsors periodic financial seminars<br />
organized with our local branches to help<br />
our uniformed service members, active<br />
and retired, plan for the future.<br />
ANNUAL MEETING<br />
With a mixture of business and pleasure,<br />
COA’s annual meeting invites colleagues<br />
from around the country to gather to<br />
discuss new scientific presentations while<br />
stimulating open forums about healthrelated<br />
issues.<br />
INSURANCE PROGRAMS<br />
COA enables members to participate in<br />
several low-cost insurance programs that<br />
may continue after leaving the PHS as long<br />
as your membership in COA remains<br />
current.<br />
FRONTLINE<br />
COA’s newsletter reports on monthly activities<br />
and items of interest to COA members<br />
about the Corps & COA.<br />
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM<br />
COA offers thousands of dollars towards<br />
college scholarships for children and<br />
spouses of COA members.<br />
RIBBON & MINIATURE MEDAL<br />
The COA ribbon and miniature medal are<br />
authorized to be worn on the PHS uniform<br />
by members in good standing.<br />
HERTZ RENTAL DISCOUNT<br />
Members enjoy discount rates on Hertz<br />
rental throughout the United States at<br />
Hertz locations and participating licensees.<br />
UBS BENEFITS<br />
Allows COA members to receive<br />
discounted prices before purchasing a car.<br />
FROM THE COA BOARD CHAIR<br />
<strong>2005</strong> Conference Will Address Global<br />
Public Health Challenges<br />
By CAPT Tim Ames<br />
Today the need is<br />
greater than<br />
ever to develop<br />
new and continuing<br />
global public health<br />
partnerships with<br />
comprehensive<br />
agendas to address<br />
public health policies<br />
for the inter-<br />
CAPT Tim Ames<br />
vention and prevention of epidemic<br />
infectious diseases, and to adopt strategies<br />
to modify behavior and control<br />
environments in the relentlessly<br />
changing world. The industrialized<br />
world is realizing that, even with the<br />
technology and expertise of modern<br />
curative medicine, it is inadequately<br />
prepared for the far-reaching challenges<br />
of large-scale public health<br />
disasters such as a worldwide SARS<br />
epidemic or the spread of AIDS in<br />
Africa.<br />
The importance of public health to<br />
our American society has been revived<br />
since 9/11. But complacency and<br />
bureaucratic indifference to global<br />
public health threats such as drugresistance<br />
strains of microbial diseases<br />
such as MDR-TB, the spread of AIDS<br />
and hepatitis in faraway places, the<br />
neglect of the environment and sanitary<br />
conditions, the rapidity with<br />
which microbes can be spread through<br />
travel and trade, exportation of<br />
destructive lifestyle behaviors, and the<br />
real man-made biological peril from<br />
terrorists is no longer an option to<br />
world society. This fact has been long<br />
been recognized by the leadership of<br />
the U.S. Public Health Service and is<br />
being specifically addressed through<br />
efforts like the upcoming Annual<br />
Scientific Meetings to be held in<br />
Philadelphia this June.<br />
The time is now to be planning on<br />
attending the <strong>2005</strong> Public Health<br />
Professional Conference/Global Health<br />
Summit, June 5-10, <strong>2005</strong>. This year’s<br />
conference offers the unique opportunity<br />
to participate in two conferences,<br />
beginning with the Global Health<br />
Summit, June 5, <strong>2005</strong>. The Global<br />
Health Summit will be previewing the<br />
Surgeon General’s Report on Global<br />
Health and will be a means to seek<br />
organizational support in the development<br />
of the report. The Global Health<br />
Summit will also provide a forum<br />
opportunity for national and international<br />
public health professionals to<br />
provide direction on collaborative<br />
actions needed to advance the world<br />
health. Key focus areas will include:<br />
infectious diseases; displaced persons;<br />
global security/infrastructure; and<br />
environmental health.<br />
The 40th Annual U.S. Public Health<br />
Professional Conference, which runs<br />
from June 6-9, will feature a keynote<br />
by U.S. Surgeon General Richard<br />
Carmona and a panel including 5<br />
former U.S. Surgeons General. The<br />
theme of “Where in the World Are<br />
We....In Global Health” provides for an<br />
array of other nationally and internationally<br />
prominent public health<br />
leaders, including Anthony Fauci,<br />
Director of the National Center for<br />
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who<br />
will be speaking throughout the<br />
conference on emerging issues, trends<br />
and important topics in the field of<br />
public health. The conference will<br />
include an entire day of professionspecific<br />
sessions for pharmacists,<br />
physicians, nurses, dentists and others.<br />
Continuing education credits will be<br />
available for all conference sessions.<br />
There will be several pre/postconference<br />
events including two BOTC<br />
courses (Session 1 - June 3-5, <strong>2005</strong>,<br />
Session 2 - June 10-12, <strong>2005</strong>) and the<br />
3 rd Annual <strong>Commissioned</strong> <strong>Officers</strong><br />
Foundation Charity Golf Tournament.<br />
This years Surgeon General’s 5K<br />
Run/Walk is scheduled to take place<br />
Wednesday, June 8, <strong>2005</strong>, at 7:00 am.<br />
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