The Association is and aims to remain much more than an interdisciplinary umbrella. The ASSH has local area networks for Baltimore-Washington, the Carolinas, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The consortium's membership of over 2,000 includes universities, training centers, national institutes, faculty, and individual members in forty-five countries. The association helps develop programs, recognizes faculty and students, guides curriculum development, publishes textbooks, organizesinternational technical assistance, and represents health administration education in the development of educational health care policy. Committee on Health Politics, American Political Science Association COHP is an unaffiliated group of the APSA, and currently sponsors three or four panels each year at the APSA Annual Meeting.
Membership is free, and anyone interested in health policy is invited to be a member.
There are currently about 200 people on the mailing list. Suggestions for improving the Web site are welcome. The Health Law 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. The Web site has descriptions of the section's ten interest groups, publication information, Web links, and section news.