Innovative Examples...an initial listing...

The following are some examples that have come to our attention over the past year or so, placed here to stimulate readers to add other promising activities and to alert them to these efforts such that you can pursue any that interest you in further detail. Here are some which could be of use in our program evolution for the August 22/23, 2011 Summit: State universal coverage programs...Hawaii, Vermont, Michigan; state based programs that are having an impact...South Carolina..(ray greenberg/ med. Univ. Of S.C.), MD/Univ. MD (Claudia Bacquet); programs with a regional reach - WAMI, univ of wash educational collaboration; univ. Of Colorado Native American Center Telecommunications-based public health (Spero Manson, Director); public health educational organizational innovations - Texas A & M School of Rural Public Health, Ciro Sumaya (Founding Dean Emeritus), NEOCOM community based medic an and public health school (Jay Gershen, President.......), striking example of new health education community model involving nurse educative training Native American community leaders in public health...a new model that seems to work...Sheila Ryan and JoAnn Koerner).