Title: APHA Governing Council

Author: Howell Sasser

Section/SPIG: Epidemiology

Issue Date:

As the 2010 Annual Meeting in Denver approaches, the Epidemiology Section’s members of APHA’s Governing Council are getting ready for their busy season.  These are some of the highlights of what we will doing as we represent you:

 

  • On Saturday, Nov. 6, before the Annual Meeting has even started officially, we will meet for an afternoon session to hear speeches by the candidates for election to APHA’s highest offices (Executive Board, speaker of the Governing Council, treasurer, and president-elect).  This will be our first chance to see the candidates in person, and begin to form the impressions that will guide the Section’s business meeting discussions about which candidates we should support.  Of special interest to the Epidemiology Section this year is the nomination of D.r Jose Cordero, a former chair of our Section, for president-elect.  Dr. Cordero will have our enthusiastic support and we wish him ¡buena suerte!

 

  • On Sunday morning, we will meet for a presentation and discussion of a current topic of interest in public health.  The goal is to give APHA’s leaders an opportunity to share opinions and build consensus about how APHA can best work to improve the public’s health.

 

  • On Sunday afternoon, we will attend public hearings on the proposed APHA policy statements that have been submitted for consideration at this year’s Annual Meeting.  These hearings are open to all APHA members and offer everyone a chance to make his or her opinion known about important public health issues.  Among the topics under consideration this year are improving school graduation rates as a health priority, expanding access to contraception among low-income women, environmental justice, health literacy, environmental justice, and funding of local and state health departments.  If you are interested in attending a hearing on a topic of interest to you, speak with a Governing Councilor.

 

  • On Tuesday, we will meet for an all-day session to do APHA’s business, approving the 2011 budget, hearing reports from APHA leaders and committees, debating the proposed policies, and casting our votes in the APHA leadership elections.  In the past, this meeting has produced enormous amounts of paper, but this year we have gone paperless!  The Governing Councilors will strike a small victory for the environment, bringing laptop computers to the Annual Meeting and saving at least a few trees. 

 

Your Governing Councilors for 2010 are:  Oscar Alleyne, Christine Arcari, Laurie Elam-Evans, Kris Fennie, Linda Hazlett, Victor Ilegbodu, Resa Jones, Orion McCotter, John Neuberger, Jan Risser, Howell Sasser, Anbesaw Selassie, Cathy Troisi, and John Vena.  Congratulations also to those (Arcari, Ilegbodu, Jones, Neuberger, Troisi) newly elected to terms that will run through 2012.