Alberto Jose Cardelle, PhD, MPH:  Dr. Cardelle is an associate professor and the chair of the Health Department at East Stroudsburg University.  Currently a Governing Councilor for CHPPD, in his next term he will continue to work with fellow councilors to ensure that the APHA Governing Council adopts policies and resolutions that represent the goals of the Section’s membership, including policies that highlight the critical role of public health infrastructure.  During the last Annual Meeting he was elected to APHA’s nominating committee, which recruits and nominates candidates for APHA President and Executive Board.  In this role, he pledges to represent the Section by ensuring that those nominated to manage APHA are representative of the organization’s membership.  This is also Cardelle's seventh year on the executive committee of the APHA Latino Caucus, having served as program chair, vice chair, chair, and now as past chair.   He says of this experience, "It has allowed me to bring issues that are important to different APHA constituencies to our Section and assist the Section leadership in forging new ties to these constituencies."  E-mail him at acardelle@po-box.esu.edu.

Christiaan B. Morssink, PhD, MPH, MA, got his bearings in public health in Suriname. For the last nine years, he has been working in Philadelphia, where he helped develop the graduate program in public health studies at the University of Pennsylvania and where he has been teaching for the last six years.  He is the mentor of the city-wide Philadelphia Public Health Student Council, treasurer of the Philadelphia Global Water Initiative, chair of the Healthy Environments Collaborative (a STEPS initiative), and a board member of the public health section of the Philadelphia College of Physicians. Morssink is also vice president of the United Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia.  His goals include expanding advocacy for the public health professional as well as on expanding the tent of public health and re-investing heavily in primordial prevention work.  Christian says, "I have just a few skills: I build homes, deconstruct problems, plan well and find solutions.  I do, however, bring vision and drive for a cosmopolitan approach to the way we operate and organize our work.  An important accomplishment would be the expansion of the Section by including public health-friendly, collaborative professions and bringing a global perspective to the way we handle our local portfolios."  E-mail him at christiaanmo@yahoo.com.

Section Council Members: 

Carol Bryant Payne, MSN:  Carol’s expertise and professional interests include bringing together diverse groups in solution-oriented dialogue to promote community empowerment and build public trust. She focuses her efforts in the areas of affordable housing, community and economic development, and the integration of health and housing policy.  Payne's other areas of interest include advancing the full integration of community health workers (CHWs) into the health care profession.  In this work, she is leading the development of the Community Outreach Workers Association of Maryland.  She serves on the board of Baltimore Health Start, Inc., co-leads HUD’s Interagency Task Force on Health and Public Housing, and is co-leading a city-wide coalition, ‘Place Matters,’ to address health inequities in Baltimore.  She previously served on the Section Council in 2001 and is a current member of the CHW SPIG.   She pledges to use her organizational/leadership skills to carry out the governance and responsibilities of the Council, and her expertise in health and community development to press forward recommendations that address the social determinants that impact health and their implications for public policy advocacy and social change.  E-mail her at carol.payne@hud.gov.

Helda Pinzon-Perez, PhD, CHES, RN, is an associate professor at California State University, Fresno.  Her professional interests are centered on the study of health disparities and the determinants of health, as they relate to health policy and community health.  Helda is currently pursuing a Masters of Public Health with emphasis on health policy and management.  In the past, she has been involved in other sections of APHA, but this is her first year in CHPPD.  Pinzon-Perez has served as a reviewer for proposals on immigrant health and done various presentations at past Annual Meetings.  She has been actively involved in multicultural committees/associations dealing with health disparities among immigrant populations. On her term as Section Councilor, Helda says, "I will bring multicultural and bilingual skills (Spanish/English) to the Section and also will offer my experience in international health and community health. I would like to contribute to the efforts of CHPPD in guaranteeing equal access to health services and community health programs for under-served populations.  I hope to offer my experience in international health to increase collaboration between the United States and Latin American countries in the development of health policies."  E-mail her at hpinzonp@csufresno.edu.

Winston Tseng, PhD: Winston is an assistant research scientist in Community Health and Human Development at UC Berkeley Health Research for Action and a medical sociologist by training. He is chair-elect of APHA’s Asian Pacific Islander Caucus and serves as an advisor on the Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Subcommittee of NIH’s National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities.  He is a member of the California Public Health Association — North and South — and a consultant for the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations. His specialties include health services research, racial and social inequities of health, CBPR, and nonprofit institutions and civil society. His community research and policy work focus on health inequities facing ethnic minorities and immigrants and the role of health and social service organizations in mediating health inequities and improving community quality of life. His approach engages community residents, community-based organizations, research institutions, and policy stakeholders for mutual planning, implementing, evaluating, and disseminating culturally and linguistically appropriate health education campaigns and multidisciplinary primary care and chronic care delivery models.  As a Section Councilor, he pledges to contribute to advancing CHPPD’s efforts in expanding and using its membership network, as well as fostering program and policy collaboration between CHPPD and other sections, SPIGs, caucuses, and external organizations.  E-mail him at winston@berkeley.edu.

By Elizabeth Schiffman, Newsletter Editor, elizabeth.schiffman@denvergov.org.