Wow - the summer is gone, and we’re already gearing up for the Annual Meeting in Denver!  It’s been a busy summer here, and we’re planning on an even busier fall. In the meantime we want to share some of our recent accomplishments with the Section.

Climate Change – We experienced an amazing turnout for our webinar series “Climate Change: Mastering the Public Health Role,” which wrapped up in June. Archived webinars are available on APHA’s newly re-launched EPH website www.apha-environment.org. Look for an announcement this fall about a second climate change webinar series. Our legislative staff has worked hard to secure increased public health climate change funding. Thanks to everyone for supporting their efforts and responding to APHA Action Alerts!

Food Policy – We continue to educate policy-makers about the need for public health-based food safety legislation. APHA is a member of the Make Our Food Safe Coalition, which has been instrumental in pushing for new food safety legislation. Separately, we are also beginning to work with members and partners to identify public health priorities related to farm and agriculture policy.

Chemical Exposures – We supported development of the National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures Community Conversations Toolkit. More than 1,000 people from 25 states participated in these conversations. Interested members will have an opportunity to comment on draft workgroup reports in September and on the draft Action Agenda in December. 

EPH in the Press – Our new environmental health website was recently featured on Medscape! Our work to collect stories from the field was also highlighted in the September issue of The Nation’s Health. Please check them out if you haven’t already.

We’re expecting to be busy through the year and look forward to continuing to work with the section.

See you in Denver!

EPH Staff