The APHA – Student Assembly would like to announce the new Student Assembly Section Liaison, Azadeh Tasslimi from UMDNJ. She joined the section liaison program at the Annual Meeting in December 2005.

The APHA – SA is dedicated to enhancing students' professional development by providing resources, fostering diversity and promoting opportunities. We encourage the Epidemiology Section to assist us in accomplishing this mission by reaching out to students and providing us with information that students may not receive otherwise. Most recently, the Epidemiology Section gave us information about the 2006 Congress of Epidemiology, which we are publicizing to all students.

Epidemiology Section members are also needed as mentors for the National Mentoring Program (NMP). Online registration for NMP is now available! Students and regular members can go to the APHA Web site (members only section) to sign up at <http://www.apha.org/ppp/mentoring/>.

The goals of this program are to:
• improve the relevance of the academic training that public health students receive;
• increase the professional success and productivity of public health students and professionals; and
• help strengthen the field of public health through the retention and growth of strong and committed members.

National Mentoring Program in Public Health

Registration is open year round. NMP matches mentors and mentees based on the following criteria:
• general area of interest
• specific area of interest
• three rank-ordered mentoring objectives
• vision of an ideal match

Matched participants will be notified as soon as an appropriate match is made and will be invited to participate in the program for one calendar year.