The Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section is working with several sections on a brief survey available at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=356542615966 through Oct. 10, 2006. It is intended to elicit feedback from public health practitioners regarding their attitudes and perceptions regarding volunteering to provide medical or public health services as an individual in a professional role for emergency response, especially when deployed away from one’s home state. This information will help inform the debate around language to be included in the “Uniform Emergency Volunteer Healthcare Practitioner Act” (UEVHPA).

The other APHA sections involved are: Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Oral Health; Medical Care; and International Health. For questions about the “Uniform Emergency Volunteer Healthcare Practitioner Act” (UEVHPA), please contact James G. Hodge Jr., JD, LLM at (410) 955-7624 or jhodge@jhsph.edu. For questions about the survey, please contact Sue Myers, CHPPD Chair Elect at (412) 725-4619 or myers@telerama.com.