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Interested in Becoming a Board Member?
Each year a call for nominations goes out to all state and territorial health department staff for new board Members.We look to you to recommend peers, colleagues, or yourself, to serve on our board. Eligible nominees may be chronic disease directors or any other chronic disease professional who is serving with distinction and innovation as a leader or manager.
The Value of Being an NACDD Board Member
Board Members participate in a national leadership forum focused on strategically improving state and territory chronic disease infrastructure. They encourage emerging organizational and funding models in the public health delivery system, and they help identify ways to understand and leverage prevention activities in local programs.
Being a board Member enhances leadership skills via personal and professional development, as well as provides another avenue to share experiences and network with other committed public health professionals and partner organizations.
Eligible candidates will meet the following criteria:
• Must have served for at least one year in current position within a state or territory’s chronic disease program.
• Willingness to be an active, productive participant in a council, committee, or other NACDD program or project.
• Can meet projected time commitment (including board orientation, bi-monthly meetings, conferences, and committee participation).
• Willingness to serve on at least one standing board committee.
• Experience in governing policy development, which includes providing
strategic direction, monitoring organizational effectiveness, overseeing nancial and budgetary issues, and determining critical policies or positions.
• Demonstrated leadership through accomplishments in a particular eld; service on other public or private boards; or recognition through honors, awards, or achievements; or a deep knowledge of how to address issues relevant to state and national chronic disease programs.
For more information on expressing interest in becoming a board Member, contact us at Members@chronicdisease.org.