This year, the APHA-Student Assembly (SA) Opportunities Committee has worked to provide more resources to students regarding scholarships, conferences, job postings, potential employers, and fellowships/internships. In addition to these endeavors, the committee has worked to revamp the SA Alumni Database. The alumni database allows the SA to keep track of their past members and also provides current and potential students access to possible careers in the public health field.

Through this database, students can look at job positions held by public health professionals currently in the field. Potential students can also view jobs that people with public health degrees have to gain a better understanding of the wide variety of career paths available to them. SA alumni range from recent graduates working in fellowships or entry-level positions to seasoned health professionals with well-established research agendas.

This database also allows students to contact past members and ask questions about the paths leading to their current positions, the kind of entry-level positions someone should look for in order to forge a similar career path, or how they should prepare to begin their own career path.

The SA Opportunities Committee Co-Chairs are working to increase participation of SA alumni in the database. As regular members of APHA, many of you were probably once Student Assembly (previously entitled Public Health Student Caucus) members. We are asking those alumni to please complete the form, available on the Opportunities Committee Website (http://www.aphastudents.org/opportunities.php) under the link for the Alumni Database. This endeavor would not be possible without the cooperation of the SA alumni.

If you have any questions or want more information, please feel free to contact Jennifer Cremeens at opportunities@apahstudents.org.