Title: Notes from the Editor

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Section/SPIG: Aging & Public Health

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With the changing of the guard at GHS (see Bob Burke’s statement as incoming chair), the Newsletter gets a new editor. My first task is to thank Donna Cox for stewarding the Newsletter before me so well. My second task is to thank Steve Wallace for getting me up to speed. And my third task is to thank Sharon McCarthy at APHA and Carmen Hayes from my own department in helping prepare the Newsletter.

That said, I am free to make a request of the wonderful recipients of this Newsletter. I need your submissions. You will see that this issue carries essays and announcements. It is always important to post “good and welfare” announcements: news of moves, awards, publications, fellowships, and the like. But we underutilize this medium if we limit ourselves to such use. I would like to see more essays, brief book reviews, abstracts, calls for collaboration, and other efforts that promote our goal of increasing the visibility of aging as a topic for public health research and advocacy.

To that end, for the next issue, I would like you to think about the major challenges in public health and aging. What do you consider the major challenges? Send me your top five, rank ordered. I will collate and report results in this next issue. Let’s see how much consensus there is (and yes, I have a comparison in mind). Thanks to Steve Wallace for suggesting this effort.