Community Health and Policy: Professional Organizations

The American Public Health Association aims to protect all Americans, their families and their communities from preventable, serious health threats and strives to assure community-based health promotion and disease prevention activities and preventive health services are universally accessible in the United States.

Maryland state's affiliate to the American Public Health Association, the association is an organization of professionals representing all aspects of public health

The American Nurses Association (ANA) is the only full-service professional organization representing the interests of registered nurses through its constituent member nurses associations and its organizational affiliates.

The Maryland Nurses Association is the only state-wide, non-profit, multipurpose professional membership organization for Registered Nurses in Maryland. The primary purpose of MNA is to provide direction and a voice for the profession of nursing in Maryland.

The National Association of Nutrition Professional mission is to enhance the integrity of the holistic nutrition profession through self-governance, educational standards, a rigorous code of ethics and through the administration of the Board Exam in Holistic Nutrition available through the Holistic Nutrition Credentialing Board (HNCB), the credentialing arm of the NANP

Provides food and nutrition information from a professional association of dietitians. ADA improves the nations health and advances the profession of dietetics through, research, education and advocacy.