Section’s Chair-Elect Awarded Health and Aging Policy Fellowship        

Aging and Public Health (APH) Chair-Elect Lené Levy-Storms received a 2010 Health and Aging Policy Fellowship, which will require her to be in Washington, D.C., during the APHA meetings this fall. The Fellowship, funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, will train Dr. Levy-Storms (as part of a cohort of 2010 fellows) how to impact health and aging policy. The Fellowship requires attendance in D.C. at a series of core training institutes during the last week of October, two weeks in November, and one week in early December. Dr. Levy-Storms will be learning how to help shape policy based on her research about communication skills training for nursing aides and family caregivers of institutionalized elders with dementia. Dr. Levy-Storms is also excited about learning how to work with APHA to advocate for aging and health policy issues on behalf of the APH Section. For more information about this ongoing Fellowship, visit http://www.healthandagingpolicy.org/.