Medical Leadership Forum

Since 2014, CAPM has sponsored a California Public Health/Preventive Medicine Medical Leadership Forum. This gathers together the medical leaders of prevention and public health from academia and public health practice throughout the state, state health agencies, organized medicine, local health departments, and schools of medicine and of public health. It addresses training issues as well as public health and prevention issues raised by organizations of physicians. Meetings are quarterly and held virtually. Since June 2017, each meeting has featured a special topic of importance to public health in California, in addition to reports from member schools, departments, and agencies, and exchanges of information.

The history that led to the idea of developing this forum can be found on another page. The first Chair of this leadership group, from 2014 to 2023, was Mark Horton. He previously had been the first director of the California Department of Public Health, after it split off from the Department of Health Services into an independent department. Mark sadly passed away on March 18, 2023. The current officers are:

Chair: Ronald P. Hattis

Vice-Chair: Sumedh Mankar

Secretary: Traci Stevenson

Among other things, the Forum has been collecting information from California’s schools of medicine and public health, about training opportunities in public health and Preventive Medicine. Posted on this Web site under the tab for residencies and MPH degrees is a list of California’s graduate programs in public health, and dual-degree programs for medical and public health degrees. Also posted is a list of medical residency programs in Preventive Medicine and in Occupational Medicine.

Still a work in progress (as of April 2022), pending collection of more data from the schools, is this tabulation of information on training opportunities offered by the 17 medical schools. Any official updates from medical schools should be sent to the Forum c/o preventivemed@aol.com.

Here are links to minutes of the first meetings of this leadership forum. They are listed in reverse chronological order, to assist anyone who might wish to follow the progress and the chain of issues and ideas pursued, all the way to the very beginning.

Minutes of the Forty-first Forum Meeting, December 12, 2023 , Featuring Medi-Cal coverage expansion to the undocumented population, and the CalAIM program to expand Medi-Cal services for high-risk patients

Minutes of the Fortieth Forum Meeting, September 12, 2023 , Featuring drug overdose deaths and the addiction crisis

Minutes of the Thirty-ninth Forum Meeting, June 1, 2023, Featuring some selected important causes of recent increases in deaths

Minutes of the Thirty-eighth Forum Meeting, March 14, 2023, Featuring recent increases in mortality and reductions in life expectancy

Minutes of the Thirty-seventh Forum Meeting, December 13, 2022 , Featuring curriculum proposals for schools of medicine and public health, on social and environmental determinants of health, and public health and prevention priorities

Minutes of the Thirty-sixth Forum Meeting, September 13, 2022, Featuring How to Include Nine Important Public Health and Prevention-related Subjects to Medical School Curricula

Minutes of the Thirty-fifth Forum Meeting, June 14, 2022, Featuring Preventive Cardiology

Minutes of the Thirty-fourth Forum Meeting, March 08, 2022, Featuring Public Health Education to Medical Students, Residents, and Practicing Physicians

Minutes of the Thirty-third Forum Meeting, December 14, 2021, Featuring Impacts of the COVID Pandemic on Medical Education, Clinical Medical Practice, Public Health, and Non-COVID Mortality

Minutes of the Thirty-second Forum Meeting, September 14, 2021, Featuring Heat Emergencies: Clinical Management and Cal-OES Planning

Minutes of the Thirty-first Forum Meeting, June 8, 2021, Featuring Research Studies from the USC Department of Preventive Medicine, relating to COVID-19 and Social Determinants of Health

Minutes of the Thirtieth Forum Meeting, March 9, 2021, Featuring Systemic Racism/Sexism and Other Inequities of Past and Present, a Public Health Problem Requiring Medical Student and Physician Education (see also slides under Education Material tab, Slide and Video Presentations)

Minutes of the Twenty-ninth Forum Meeting, December 8, 2020, Featuring Structural Racism and Trauma as Public Health Issues, and How One Medical School Incorporated Racial and Other Inequities Into Curriculum

Minutes of the Twenty-eighth Forum Meeting, September 8, 2020, Featuring Projected Mortality from Climate Change, and COVID-19 Cases Prevented as of April 2020 by Control Measures in 6 Countries

Minutes of the Twenty-seventh Forum Meeting, June 9, 2020, Featuring Climate Change: Direct Action Opportunities, and COVID-19: Evolving Science

Minutes of the Twenty-sixth Forum Meeting, March 10, 2020, Featuring Climate Change as an Existential Public Health Crisis; and COVID-19: Introduction to the Latest Public Health Emergency

Minutes of the Twenty-fifth Forum Meeting, December 17, 2019, Featuring Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems

Minutes of the Twenty-fourth Forum Meeting, October 8, 2019, Featuring Resistance to Immunizations

Minutes of the Twenty-third Forum Meeting, July 9, 2019, Featuring Gun Violence Prevention

Minutes of the Twenty-second Forum Meeting, March 19, 2019, Featuring Public Health Impacts of Wildfires

Minutes of the Twenty-first Forum Meeting, December 4, 2018, Featuring Air Quality in Wildfires

Minutes of the Twentieth Forum Meeting, September 11, 2018, Featuring Violence and Terrorism

Minutes of the Nineteenth Forum Meeting, June 5, 2018, Featuring Opioid Crisis

Minutes of the Eighteenth Forum Meeting, March 3, 2018, Featuring Current CMA Resolutions

Minutes of the Seventeenth Forum Meeting, December 5, 2017, Roles of Local Public Health; Legislation

Summary of 12/16, 3/17, 6/17, and 9/17 Forum Meetings

Minutes of the Sixteenth Forum Meeting, September 12, 2017, Featuring CDC’s Agenda, 6 Public Health Problems

Minutes of the Fifteenth Forum Meeting, June 6, 2017, Featuring Teaching Prevention in Medical Schools, Curricula