Fall greetings as the new academic year begins! Hope you are settling into your posts now that Labor Day is behind us, and have escaped the wrath of Irene or any other storms.

Typically at this time in the academic season, we are gearing up for the Annual Meeting. In keeping with that tradition, the newsletter highlights “need-to-know” activities and opportunities that you may wish to pursue in D.C. Karen Peters from the Action Board provides essential information about advocacy training sessions and opportunities to meet with members of Congress. We hope to see you all there!!

Switching gears to social media, you may have noted that our newsletter has been growing at a good pace over the last year and a half, thanks to contributions from so many of our Section members. In order to continue to foster high engagement levels with our members, I am calling for subeditors to volunteer to work with me in the next newsletter cycle. The role of the subeditor would be to develop newsworthy items for us to share with the Section and recruit new talent from among our ranks. As I hail from New York, I would welcome volunteers from other parts of the country who can help to balance the New York reporting lens I bring to the newsletter. If you are interested in this venture or wish to explore, please contact me at mamorrissey@fordham.edu.

In between newsletters, you may locate up to date information about the Section on our webpage or on Facebook. See links below to these resources

Aging & Public Health Facebook http://www.facebook.com/groups/112118342213557/?ap=1

Aging & Public Health Webpage http://www.apha.org/membergroups/sections/aphasections/a_ph/.

I look forward to hearing from you, and mixing and mingling between sessions at the Annual Meeting as well as at the Section dinner.

Best regards,
Mary Beth Morrissey