AcademyHealth is the professional home for health services researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners, and a leading, non-partisan resource for the best in health research and policy. AcademyHealth promotes interaction across the health research and policy arenas by bringing together a broad spectrum of players to share their perspectives, learn from each other, and strengthen their working relationships. As the professional society for 4,000 individuals and 125 affiliated organizations throughout the United States and abroad, AcademyHealth fosters networking and professional growth among a diverse membership composed of public policymakers, business decision makers, health services researchers, policy analysts, economists, sociologists, political scientists, consultants, clinicians, and students.

Contact: For more information, contact AcademyHealth, 1801 K St. NW, Ste. 701-L, Washington, DC 20006.
Phone: 202.292.6700. Fax: 202.292.6800. E-mail. Home Page . Contact Us.

ACHE is an international professional society of nearly thirty thousand health care executives. It is known for its prestigious credentialing and educational programs; for its annual Congress on Healthcare Management, which draws more than four thousand participants; for its Journal of Healthcare Management and its magazine Health Care Executive; and for its groundbreaking research and career development and public policy programs. ACHE’s goal is to improve the health status of society by advancing health care management excellence. ACHE’s publishing division, Health Administration Press, is one of the largest publishers of books and journals on health services management and of textbooks for college and university programs.

Contact: For membership information, contact ACHE Division of Membership, One N. Franklin St., Ste. 1700, Chicago, IL 60606-3491.
Phone: 312.424.2800. Fax: 312.424.0023. E-mail. Home Page. Contact Us.

Since 1960 the ACLM has been the official organization for professionals who focus on the important issues where law, medicine, and dentistry converge. It is a community of physicians, attorneys, dentists, nurses, health care professionals, administrators, scientists, and others with a sustained interest in medicolegal affairs.

The ACLM publishes the quarterly Journal of Legal Medicine, Legal Medicine Perspectives, Medical Legal Lessons, Notes from the President, and a textbook, Legal Medicine, currently in its fourth edition. It cosponsors the annual National Health Law Moot Court Competition at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, along with two other conferences every year.

Contact: For more information on ACLM activities, contact ACLM, Two Woodfield Lake, 1100 E. Woodfield Road, Suite 520, Schaumburg, IL 60173.
Phone: 847.969.0283. Fax: 847.517.7229. E-mail. Home Page. Contact Us.

AHPA's basic mission remains, as it has been for more than 25 years, the promotion and improvement of community-based health service planning and decision-making. AHPA membership is diverse, representing a broad spectrum of health care interests. Among the membership are consumers, payers, providers, state and local public health officials, community health planners in government and the private sector, educators and health planning students. AHPA works to educate health policy makers and the public. We affirm that comprehensive community-based health planning helps assure access to needed health care. APHA includes Organizational Members (state and local health planning and certificate of need agencies); Affiliate Members (payer, insurer, business, labor, provider, consumer and educational organizations); Individual Members (individuals who support or are involved in health planning) and Student Members (students engaged full-time in an undergraduate or graduate health planning or related program).

Contact: For information about the organization and membership, contact the AHPA, 7245 Arlington Blvd., Ste. 300, Falls Church, VA 22042.
Phone: 703.573.3103. Fax: 703.573.3103. E-mail. Home Page. Contact Us.

The mission of the ASLME is to provide high-quality scholarship, debate, and critical thought to the community of professionals at the intersection of law, health care, and ethics. For more than twenty-five years the ASLME has fulfilled its mission by providing extensive opportunities for the exchange of ideas and for interdisciplinary education to its membership of attorneys, physicians, nurses, ethicists, educators, allied health professionals, hospital and public administrators, risk managers, pharmacists, social workers, and students. The great diversity of its membership makes the ASLME unique and brings it to the forefront of the debate on topics such as the undertreatment of pain, end-of-life decision making, managed care, genetics, and bioethics.

The ASLME publishes two journals—the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics and the American Journal of Law and Medicine—and sponsors continuing education conferences and funded research. Annual membership is open to doctoral professionals ($230), nondoctoral and allied health professionals ($150), students ($90), and institutions. Web membership is free.

Contact: For more information, contact ASLME, 765 Commonwealth Ave., Suite 1634, Boston, MA 02215.
Phone: 617.262.4990. Fax: 617.437.7596. E-mail. Home Page. Contact Us.

APPAM aspires to be the leading professional organization dedicated to blending the talents of researchers, educators, and practitioners in the production, dissemination,and application of analysis bearing on public concerns. It is and aims to remain much more than an interdisciplinary umbrella. Through APPAM, public policy analysis and management will continue to evolve into an integrated field of study that supports the applied professions that address societal problems and opportunities. APPAM encourages excellence in research, teaching, and practice in the field of public policy analysis and management. It operates through its annual fall and spring conferences, a newsletter, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. APPAM’s membership includes individual and institutional members, practitioners, scholars, and students.

Contact: For more information about the organization, contact APPAM, 1029 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 1150, Washington, DC 20005.
Phone: 202.496.0130. Fax: 202.496.0134. E-mail. Web. Contact Us.

AUPHA is a unique nonprofit organization consortium of the world’s primary services management education and research development resources. The consortium’s membership of over two thousand includes universities, training centers, national institutes, faculty, and individual members in forty-five countries. Established in 1948, AUPHA assists educational programs in meeting their objectives and aggregates their talents to improve health management education. The association helps develop programs, recognizes faculty and students, guides curriculum development, publishes textbooks, organizes international technical assistance, and represents health administration education in the development of educational health care policy.

Contact: For more information about the organization, contact AUPHA, 730 11th St. NW, Ste. 400, Washington, DC 20001.
Phone: 202.638.1448. Fax: 202.638.3429. E-mail. Web. Contact Us.

COHP, an unaffiliated group of the APSA, sponsors three or four panels each year at the APSA annual meeting. Membership is free, and anyone interested in health policy is invited to join. Members receive a newsletter at least once a year and help to plan and participate in the panels the Committee sponsors at the American Poltiical Science Association meetings each Labor Day weekend. We invite members and those with an interest in health policy to visit the COHP Web site. Suggestions for improving the Web site are welcome.

Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, is working on creating an APSA Organized Section on Health Politics and Policy: further details for those wishing to sign the petition or otherwise assist to make this a reality are here.

Contact: If you wish to be on the mailing list, or if you have recently moved, send your current
mailing and e-mail addresses, along with your telephone and fax numbers, to Jim Brasfield, Webster University, 470 E. Lockwood St., St. Louis, MO 63119. E-mail. Web.

The section is dedicated to enhancing the practice of health lawyers and improving the understanding and development of health laws. In support of its mission, the section was involved in over thirty health law–related programs at the ABA annual meeting in Atlanta. For a complete listing of section CLE programs call Lisa Alicea at (312) 988-5532 or visit the section’s Web site. The Web site has descriptions of the section’s ten interest groups, publication information, Web links, and section news.

Contact: For more information, including information about membership, contact section director Jill Pena, Health Law Section, American Bar Association, 321 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60610-4714.
Phone: 312.988.5548. Fax: 312.988.5814 E-mail. Home Page. Contact Us.

The IHEA was formed to increase communication among health economists, to foster a high standard of debate in the application of economics to health and health care systems, and to assist young researchers at the start of their careers. The association’s annual Kenneth J. Arrow Award recognizes the year’s best paper in health economics. The IHEA’s major activities include publication of the HEAL newsletter, which lists jobs, conferences, training programs, forthcoming journal articles, and professional commentary; publication of the Worldwide Directory of Health Economists, a new series of scholarly books in health economics; and preparation of the Internet journal Electronic Health Economics Letters, featuring short peer-reviewed articles and rapid-turnaround commentary on economic studies of organizational innovations and effectiveness, technology, and pharmaceuticals around the world.

Contact: For membership in or other information regarding the IHEA contact Tom Getzen, Director, Temple University 006-00, Philadelphia, PA 19122.
Phone: 902.461.4432. Fax: 416.352.1395. E-mail. Home Page.

Founded over 60 years ago, the Medical Care Section is a diverse group of people working to influence policy through research, advocacy and dissemination of ideas. The Medical Care Section is an engaging, welcoming place to debate critical issues and to learn how APHA works. We are a broad cross-section of APHA members: physicians, nurses, pharmacists, policy analysts, teaching faculty, researchers, public health administrators, patients, consumers and more. The Medical Care Section has generated several APHA presidents. The Medical Care Section’s official journal, Medical Care, is the premier clinical health services research journal in the world.

Contact: For more information on the Medical Care Section, please contact Jim Wohlleb, Membership Chair, Medical Care Section, American Public Health Association or APHA, 800 I St. NW, Washington, DC 20001-3710.
Phone: 202.777.APHA. Phone: 202.777.2533. E-mail. Web. Contact Us.

The Medical Sociology Section, one of the ASA’s largest sections, brings together social and behavioral scientists who share an interest in the social contexts of health, illness, and health care. Central topics include the subjective experience of health and illness; political, economic, and environmental threats to health; and social factors that affect the medical care system and individuals’ responses to illness. Drawing on multiple perspectives, the field is concerned with basic sociological research and its implications for public policy and practice. Medical sociologists work in a large variety of settings: academic teaching, academic research, government planning and regulatory agencies, government research, hospital and health institution policy and research, and citizen advocacy.

Contact: For more information about the Medical Sociology Section, contact the Section Chair: Jay Turner or American Sociological Association, 1307 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005.
Phone: 202.383.9005 Fax: 202.638.0882 E-mail. ASA Section Overview. Section Home Page. Contact ASA.

The National Academy of Social Insurance is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization made up of the nation's leading experts on social insurance. Its mission is to promote understanding and informed policymaking on social insurance and related programs through research, public education, training, and the open exchange of ideas. Social insurance encompasses broad-based systems for insuring workers and their families against economic insecurity caused by loss of income from work and the cost of health care. NASI's scope covers social insurance such as Social Security; Medicare; workers' compensation; and unemployment insurance, related public assistance, and private employee benefits. The Academy convenes steering committees and study panels that are charged with conducting research, issuing findings, and, in some cases, reaching recommendations based on their analysis. Members of these groups are selected for their recognized expertise and with due consideration for the balance of disciplines and perspectives appropriate to the project.

Contact: For more information about the organization, its activities, or membership in it, contact Jill Braunstein, Director of Communications, NASI, 1776 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite. 615, Washington, DC 20036.
Phone: 202.452.8097. Fax: 202.452.8111. E-mail. Home Page. Contact Us.