ABOUT US
Founded in 1984, the Maine Public Health Association (MPHA) is a member based non-profit organization. We currently have over 250 members from all sectors of public health. An incorporated 501(c)3, MPHA is governed by a 15 member Board of Directors. Our Board is elected each year by our full membership and is driven by our mission and bylaws as well as our policy and procedure manual. MPHA has deep and vast support from many organizations throughout Maine. One of these organizations, Medical Care Development in Augusta, serves as our fiscal agent.
In October 2007, MPHA received a $90,000 Affiliates grant from the American Public Health Association (APHA). This is a three-year grant that charges MPHA with building our internal capacity as well as our ability to serve our members and better the publics’ health in Maine. This grant afforded MPHA the opportunity to hire our first Executive Director, Tina Pettingill, MPH, in January, 2008.
MPHA has spent the past two year in an exciting period of growth and development and are now turning our focus and energies on sustainability of the organization in 2010. We will be holding a sustainability retreat in February 2010 and will be writing several key marketing and business documents to help us in this process toward longevity. If you are reading this and wish to become involved please contact us- we welcome all input and feedback!
We invite you to join us in our commitment to our members and to public health in Maine!
OUR STAFF
MPHA BOARD OF DIRECTORS 11/09-10/10
 President
Shawn Yardley, Director
Bangor Health and Community Services
103 Texas Avenue
Bangor, ME 04401
Tel: 207-992-4531
shawn.yardley@bangormaine.gov |  Vice-President
Bethany Sanborn, MPH, CHES
Program Manager
Health Promotion Program
Public Health Division, City of Portland
Portland, ME 04101
bms@portlandmaine.gov
(207) 849-8449 |  Past-President
Emily Rines, MPH, CHES
Project Director
Let's Go!
United Way of Greater Portland
400 Congress Street, 4th Floor
Portland, ME 04112
Tel: 207-874-1000, ext. 323
erines@unitedwaygp.org |
| |
|
|
 Treasurer
Anita Ruff. MPH, CHES
Deputy Director of Administration
Early Detection & Intervention for
the Prevention of Psychosis Program
295 Park Avenue
Portland, ME 04102
Tel: 207-662-3417
Fax: 207-662-3300
ruffa@mmc.org |  Secretary
Lisa Harvey McPherson, RN, MBA, MPPM
Eastern Maine Health System
43 Whiting Hill Road, Suite 500
Brewer, ME 04412
Tel: 207-973-7893
Fax: 207-973-7139
lmcpherson@emh.org
|
AT-LARGE MEMBERS
Kala Ladenheim, PhD
Public Health Consultant
207-236-3221
drkala@roadrunner.com | Heather Davis, MPH
Healthy Community Coalition
105 Mt. Blue Circle, Suite #1
Farmington, ME 04938
Tel: 207-779-2924
Fax: 207-778-5797
hdavis@fchn.org
|  Lee Anne Dodge
University of Southern Maine
PO Box 9300
Portland, ME 04101
207- 780-5158
ldodge@usm.maine.edu
|
| |
|
|
 Mark Griswold, M.Sc.
Maine CDC/Office of Local Public Health
286 Water Street
SHS #11
Augusta, ME 04333-0011
Tel: 207-287-6262
Fax: 207-287-9058
mark.griswold@maine.gov
| Becky Smith
Project Specialist
Medical Care Development
48 Free Street, Suite 208
Portland, ME 04101
Tel: 207-773-7737
bsmith@mcd.org | Kevin Lewis, MPA
Maine Primary Care Association
73 Winthrop Street
Augusta, ME 04330
Tel: (207) 621-0677
Fax: (207) 621-0577
kalewis@mepca.org
|
| |
|
|
Edmund (Ned) Claxton, Jr., MD
Director, Family Medicine Residency
Central Maine Medical Center
76 High Street
Lewiston, ME 04240
Tel: 207-795-2184
Fax: 759-2190
claxtone@cmhc.org | Kathie Norwood
Downeast Health Services
52 Christian Ridge Road
Ellsworth, ME 04660
Tel: 207- 667-5304
knorwood@downeasthealth.org
| Angela Cole-Westhoff, MA
Executive Director
Maine Osteopathic Association
693 Western Avenue, #1
Manchester, ME 04351
Tel: 207-623-1101
awesthoff@mainedo.org |
| |
|
|
Affiliate Representative to the
Governing Council (ARGC) of APHA
Kala Ladenheim, PhD |
|
