Title: Letter from the Membership Chair
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Section/SPIG: Environment
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Dear Colleague:
We are glad to have you as a member of the APHA Environment Section, and want to encourage you to participate in section activities to get the most from your membership. As you know, the Environment Section serves as a multi-disciplinary "home" for all who are concerned about the juncture of environment and health. Our bold mission is to influence public policy and to help facilitate changes that create and sustain healthy environments while enhancing research, public awareness, and the prevention and treatment of disease caused or exacerbated by environmental factors. We seek to develop alliances with others professionals who work in a variety of public and private settings and endeavor to keep our members up to date on relevant environmental health science and policy issues.
One major initiative is the Built Environment Institute. Developed by our section, the Institute's overall goal is to assist in an effort to identify what combinations of planning, design, and lifestyle choices are prescribed for healthy and sustainable living and more human-focused growth. The Built Environment Institute was launched at the Annual Meeting in San Francisco in 2003, and is supported by grants from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The Environment Section offers many opportunities for your participation, professional development, and networking.
Our section offers a dynamic Web site that will provide a connection to section activities through out the year. We invite you to visit our site at <http://www.apha.org/sections>.
The section newsletter, published quarterly, is available only to section members. Section/SPIG newsletters are an APHA membership benefit and can be accessed using your personal APHA username and password. Need help logging in? Go to <www.apha.org/intro_private.cfm>.
We encourage you to sign-on to our section's listserv by sending a blank message to environ-l@liststar.apha.org; type "subscribe environ-l" in the subject line.
Please join us for section business meetings at the APHA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Nov. 6-10. All members are invited and encouraged to participate in business meetings, where the work and direction of our section activities are planned.
We invite you to attend the "meet and greet" section party at the 2004 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The date, time and location will be announced on our Web site and in the APHA annual program announcements. This is a great opportunity to network with fellow section members and enjoy a nice social time.
We want the Environment Section to meet your needs for professional development and networking while advancing our mission of a sustainable and healthy environment. Please get involved in our activities and help this section continue to be one of the best at APHA. A list of this year's section leadership and section committees is pasted below. If you are interested in participating or obtaining additional information, please feel free to contact me or anyone else on the list directly. We look forward to working with you.
ENVIRONMENT SECTION LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEES
Officers:
Chair - Nsedu Obot Witherspoon (nobot@cehn.org)
Past Chair - Allen Dearry (dearry@niehs.nih.gov)
Chair-Elect - Jill Litt (jill.litt@uchsc.edu)
Secretary - Vince Radke (vradke@cdc.gov)
Section Council:
2004 - Jill Litt (jill.litt@uchsc.edu), Daniel Boatright (daniel-boatright@ouhsc.edu)
2005 - Marni Rosen (mrosen@jaf.org), Michael Reiss
2006 - Patricia Elliot (pelliott@astho.org), Neal Rosenblatt (neal.rosenblatt@mail.state.ky.us)
Governing Council:
Heidi Klein (HeidiMKlein@hotmail.com )
Susan West Marmagas (swest@psr.org )
Beth Resnick (bresnick@jhsph.edu)
David Wallinga (dwallinga@iatp.org)
Committees:
POLICY
John Balbus - Chair (jbalbus@ed.org)
Brenda Afzal (afzal@son.umaryland.edu)
Pat Elliott (pelliott@astho.org)
Tony DeLucia (delucia@mail.etsu.edu)
Susan Stone (stone.susan@epa.gov)
Steve Boese (sboese@healthyschools.org)
Renee Robin (rlrobin@cehn.org)
MEMBERSHIP
Leyla Erk McCurdy - Chair (mccurdy@neetf.org)
Robin Lee (rpl5@cdc.gov)
Brenda Afzal (afzal@son.umaryland.edu)
Dorothy Stephens (des0@cdc.gov)
Susan Stone (stone.susan@epa.gov)
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT
Sacoby Wilson - Chair (smwilson@email.unc.edu)
Max Weintraub (ejhu@ejhu.org)
Aditi Vaidya (avaidya@sph.emory.edu)
BYLAWS
Pat Elliott - Chair (pelliott@astho.org)
Renee Robin (rlrobin@cehn.org)
Nse Obot Witherspoon (nobot@cehn.org)
WEBSITE
Lilah Besser - Chair (lbesser@sph.emory.edu)
Jill Litt (jill.litt@uchsc.edu)
Max Weintraub (ejhu@ejhu.org)
John Balbus (jbalbus@ed.org)
GREEN CONFERENCE
Tony DeLucia - Chair (delucia@mail.etsu.edu)
Michelle Courville (Michele.courville@montgomerycountymd.gov)
Rania Sabty-Daily (rsabtyd@calstatela.edu)
Lilah Besser (lbesser@sph.emory.edu)
Neal Rosenblatt (neal.rosenblatt@mail.state.ky.us)
Brenda Afzal (afzal@son.umaryland.edu)
Renee Robin (rlrobin@cehn.org)
Nse Obot Witherspoon (nobot@cehn.org)
APHA SECTION BOOTH
Jill Litt - Lead (jill.litt@uchsc.edu)
Vince Radke (vradke@cdc.gov)
NEWSLETTER
Rebecca Head - Editor (headr@ewashtenaw.org)
NOMINATIONS
Allen Dearry - Chair (dearry@niehs.nih.gov)
Nse Obot Witherspoon (nobot@cehn.org)
Jill Litt (jill.litt@uchsc.edu)
AWARDS
Leon Vinci - Chair (lfv6@aol.com)
Joe Sliman (jsliman@hjsph.edu)
MANAGEMENT/BUDGET
Nse Obot Witherspoon - Chair (nobot@cehn.org)
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Leyla Erk McCurdy
Membership Chair