Submitted by Gerald Stevens DC, MS, MPH

Chiropractic Health Care Section Membership Chair

A number of efforts have been undertaken to promote and increase APHA-CHC membership. The efforts started by Drs. Baird and Egan to begin auto-enrollment of chiropractic students into the CHC section has continued. Northwestern Health Sciences University (NHSU) announced in early 2011 that students beginning their first public health class will be enrolled in the APHA-CHC. NHSU was the fourth chiropractic college to pioneer this auto-enrollment.  The students will get first hand knowledge of the APHA-CHC and its endeavors. Northwestern’s President Mark Ziegler, DC has long been a supporter of chiropractic’s involvement in the APHA. His leadership to obtain this goal was pivotal in obtaining auto enrollment. Great job Dr. Ziegler!

The leadership at Logan Chiropractic College was contacted via a formal letter in regard to auto-enrollment of students. Dr. John Hyland is leading this endeavor. We appreciate his efforts to make this a successful program.

Texas Chiropractic College leadership invited our CHC Chair, Dr. Paul Dougherty, to speak on public health, APHA, and the CHC.  This is a wonderful promotion of our section and may start the initial process to pursue auto-enrollment at TCC as well.

Overall, membership has remained relatively steady. We can and will do more. Promote the APHA-CHC at all your colleges to faculty and students. Any contacts that you might have at your chiropractic college that is not auto-enrolling feel free to forward them to me at gstevens@nycc.edu and the CHC leadership will check out all viable leads. By educating the value of the APHA-CHC and the importance of public health in practice at the student level, we hope to encourage more future field doctors to enroll in the APHA and our section, the CHC.