Students can be the driving catalyst in public health progress, which is why our involvement in the APHA Environment Section is so important. As co-liaisons to this section, we are very excited to be working with such a dedicated group of public health professionals.

Who are we?

Rebecca Tave Gluskin is a prospective MSc candidate in Environmental Health at New York University. Her research is in air pollution, with interests branching into policy (monitoring/enforcement).

Taylor Anderson is working toward an MPH in health education and health promotion at Portland State University, and plans to do PhD work in epidemiology with the ultimate goal of research and teaching. She has broad range of interests in public health; environmental health is a major one.

We hope everyone had a nice summer and are looking forward to the 2006-2007 school year. We are excited to start the season off with an Environment Section Student Scholarship for the APHA Annual Meeting in Boston this November. Hopefully you recieved an e-mail with the instructions for application and applied!

Are you living in the Boston area and attending the APHA Annual Meeting? If so, we are looking for students who would like to host out-of-town students for the meeting.  This is a great way to support your peers and help cut down on the high cost of travel.

At the meeting, we want to provide a chance for us all to meet. We are open to suggestions on a venue in Boston where we could easily gather. Further information on this will be made at a later date.

I know what you did last summer... actually, we don't. Did you conduct research, work at an internship, and/or take classes?  Tell us what you did this summer, and we will post it on The Student Web Lounge site: (http://depts.washington.edu/aphaenv/students.htm).

So, please check out the Student Web Lounge and let us know if there is anything else you want to add.  We hope to make this a beneficial resource for the APHA Environmental Section student community.  Have a great year!

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Rebecca Tave Gluskin                
Co-Liaison Environmental Section APHA       
Prospective MSc. Environmental Health            
New York University                                          
Rtg230@nyu.edu       
                                          
Taylor Anderson
Co-Liaison Environmental Section APHA
Prospective MPH Health Education/Health Promotion
Portland State University
taylor_brooke@msn.com