APHA recently recognized the Gerontological Health Section’s awards portfolio in its April 2009 The Nation’s Health

(http://www.apha.org/publications/tnh/current/April09/APHASections/GHSection.htm).

GHS sponsors the most diverse of the APHA Section awards portfolios.   

Across the nine scientific awards, in both permanently and temporally restricted funds, the GHS endowment stands at over $300,000.  This is the best funded awards portfolio of APHA.  The diversity and financial strength of the GHS awards portfolio is solely due to our many, very generous individual (too many to mention, but we appreciate everyone!), corporate (Aetna, Inc.), University (George Washington and UCLA), and foundation (Archstone Foundation, Erickson Foundation, and Retirement Research Foundation) donors.  GHS has maintained a good relationship with APHA, where their Investment Committee invests and monitors our funds. Additionally, the GHS Enrichment Account supports the Annual Meeting Awards Session, as well as GHS projects, including the recent GHS Membership Survey.  As do all APHA Sections, GHS receives annual support from APHA, with the amount determined by Section membership.  Our 2009 APHA funding was $2,050.   APHA's Board has fiduciary responsibility, which is delegated to Executive Director Georges Benjamin, MD.  GHS Chair Nancy Miller approves all expenditures prior to sending to APHA's Program and Accounting Divisions.

We need to continue fundraising to build our award endowments so as to recognize our members’ professional investment in GHS and APHA. We appreciate everyone's donation of time and dollars to GHS.  You can read a more detailed account in a report posted on the GHS Web site.  If you are interested in volunteering to work on GHS financial and development activities, please contact Nancy Miller at nanmille@umbc.edu .

Nancy Miller, Chair,

Susan Miller, Chair Elect

Bob Burke, Past Chair,

Gerry Eggert, Development Chair,

Steve Wallace, Co-Development Chair