Title: Cardelle and Carroll elected to Governing Council
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Section/SPIG: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
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Dr. Alberto Cardelle is an associate professor and the chair of the Health Department at East Stroudsburg University (ESU). ESU offers an accredited MPH program, and undergraduate programs in Community Health and Health Services. His areas of research include public health infrastructure, health disparities and international health policy. He is on the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Public Health Association, and the Pocono Healthy Communities Alliance, and serve as president of the Latino Alliance of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Over the last four years Dr. Cardelle has been on the executive committee of the Latino Caucus of APHA. He served two terms as scientific program chair and vice-chair and now serves as Caucus chair. Through his positions in the caucus, he has been able to advance the policy issues important to the caucus membership. This is what he would like to continue doing as governing councilor representing CHPPD. Dr. Cardelle wants to ensure that the APHA Governing Council adopts policies and resolutions that represent the goals of the section membership. These would include policies and resolutions that emphasize the importance of public policies on the status of the public's health, and that highlight the critical role the nation's public health infrastructure plays in assuring the health of the public.
Amy Carroll Scott is a third-year doctoral student in the Community Health Sciences Department of the UCLA School of Public Health. She has been a member of APHA since 1995, serving in various leadership roles. Over the years, her career has focused on the areas of community-based public health research, mobilization, and advocacy, and so she has found a natural affiliation with the Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section. For the past two years, Ms. Scott has served as the first Student Assembly liaison to this section, and she has used this position to take a more active role in our section and create new opportunities for students within CHPPD. During this time, she successfully worked with CHPPD leadership to develop two new student abstract submission awards, institutionalize a submission feedback process for new student submitters, commit CHPPD funds to support student travel scholarships to the Annual Meeting, and create a new permanent Student Committee within the section. Ms. Scott would like to see her role as further representing the student voice within the structure and governance of both CHPPD and APHA and continuing to attract new student members to our section.