From the Editor

As you will read in the greetings from our Section chair below, the APHA Annual Meeting is upon us and promises to be a fruitful and fun experience. Please turn your attention to the announcements in this issue of the newsletter about the Annual Meeting, as well as other news items of interest about our Section chair-elect and various other programs and events.

This has certainly been a very exciting time in the nation’s history in terms of landmark legislation.  At the Annual Meeting, there will be presentations on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  In our brief newsletter space, we would like to keep you abreast of legislative developments and activities, both at the federal and state levels. This issue has a briefing on a recent enactment in New York state in the palliative care area.

We are pleased to share with you two book reviews in this issue, and thank our book reviewers for their contributions. We welcome future suggestions for reviews that will appeal to

our members.

Enjoy the Annual Meeting!  For the benefit of members who will not be able to attend, we ask those of you who will be our ambassadors to the meeting to send us any comments or reports of interest for the newsletter (mamorrissey@fordham.edu).