{"id":594,"date":"2016-01-27T13:33:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/facultyaffairs.uchc.edu\/?page_id=594"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:40:13","slug":"public-issues-council","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/faculty-affairs\/governance-councils-and-committees\/public-issues-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Issues Council"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Close-up<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Duties:<\/strong> The Public Issues Council champions scholarly activities in public health, preventive medicine and health education. It identifies critical health and disease issues for the region and state, prioritizes them and focuses broad faculty effort to improve both health care delivery and health education on these issues. It makes recommendations regarding priorities for the use of available resources, and seeks to increase community resources through legislative and private educational efforts. Its concerns span a variety of settings, such as affiliated hospitals, physicians\u2019 offices, community health centers, and schools, and include our educational partners in the community and across the state.<\/p>\n

Authority:<\/strong> The Public Issues Council advises other councils and the dean regarding the leadership role of the School of Medicine faculty in regional, statewide, and public health and health education missions.<\/p>\n

All terms are three years unless elected to fill a vacated seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Voting:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas Agresta, '26
\nAnton Alerte, ex officio
\n<\/em>Carolyn Alessi, '26
\nJenna Bartley (Chair), '26
\nAudrey Chapman, 26
\nEmil Coman, '27
\nKristin Guertin, '26
\nJaclyn Jaeger, '27
\nMiriam Miller, '28
\nDeb Polun, '28
\nNeena Qasba, '28
\nLinda Sprague Martinez, '27
\nChristopher Steele, '27
\nD. Anthony Yoder, '28<\/td>\n

Non-Voting:
\n<\/strong>Linda Barry, ex officio<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Meeting Schedule<\/h4>\n

All meetings are on the fourth Monday of every month from 4 to 5 p.m. virtually.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

2026 Meeting Minutes<\/h4>\n

2025 Meeting Minutes<\/h4>\n

January 27, 2025<\/a>
\nFebruary 24, 2025<\/a>
\nMarch, 24, 2025<\/a>
\nApril 28, 2025<\/a>
\nJune 23, 2025<\/a>
\nJuly 28,2025<\/a>
\nSeptember 29,2025<\/a>
\nOctober 27, 2025<\/a>
\nNovember 24, 2025<\/a>
\nDecember 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

View Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Operating Guidelines<\/h4>\n

Public Issues Council Operating Guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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