Title: Proposed APHA Forum on Built Environment Standards and Law
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Section/SPIG: Aging & Public Health
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As part of APHA's effort to enhance cross-cutting activity among various APHA sections, work is under way to establish a new Forum on Built Environment Standards and Law. APHA requires that at least 75 APHA members indicate an interest in being a member of such a forum, and, already, nearly this number have signed on from sections other than Gerontological Health. Interested members of GHS are now specifically invited to add their names in support of this new forum, as they are counted on for significant input to the work of the new forum. Gerontological health is profoundly affected by one's environment, and the design, construction and use of built environments in teh form of dwellings and various other living arrangements are impact by laws and standards taking many forms.
Membership in a forum neither affects one's section membership(s) nor involves any cost. Interested GHS members are asked to contact Forum organizer Jake Pauls at bldguse@aol.com to be put on the list of interested APHA members. Simply send an e-mail to bldguse@aol.com with “Forum” in the subject line and in the body of the e-mail, your full name and your state of residence/work (as shown in your APHA membership file). Later this year you will have the opportunity to comment on the application being submitted to APHA, so please take this first step to make sure that the interests of gerontological health are well represented in this new Forum.