Title: APHA Advocacy and Policy News

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Section/SPIG: Food and Nutrition

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APHA Governing Council to Meet During Annual Meeting

As the governing body for the organization, the APHA Governing Council will hold its meetings during the APHA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The Food and Nutrition Section has three Governing Councilors representing the section. Returning as a councilor is Joan Trendell, who will be joined by Anna Maria Siega-Riz and Beth Dixon to conduct the business of the organization on behalf of the section.

The Governing Council will elect the new leaders to serve as APHA’s President-elect, Treasurer, Speaker of the Governing Council and three Executive Board members. See the September edition of The Nation’s Health or <www.apha.org/private/APHAcandidates04.pdf> for biographies of the following candidates:

President-Elect:
Colleen Hughes
Patricia D. Mail

Treasurer:
Ross P. Marine
Melvin P. Shipp

Speaker of Governing Council:
Alan R. Hinman
(Running unopposed)

Executive Board:
Gerald Eggert
Nell Gottleib
Shiriki Kumanyika
Rod Lew
Howard Spivak
Andrea Kidd Taylor

In addition, the Governing Council will consider for passage more than 20 policy statements on a variety of public health issues. These statements can be found at <www.apha.org/private/2004_Proposed_Policies/index.htm>.

Reports from APHA staff, board members and various organizational units will be made during the Governing Council Sessions, and priorities for the organization in the public policy arena will be set as well.

The Governing Councilors can only represent the interest of the section by receiving input from section members. Please voice your opinions about candidates and policy statements as well as other issues of concern either directly to one of the section’s councilors or during the section’s business meetings held during the Annual Meeting. And if you are interested in seeing the council in action, stop by one the meetings, which will occur on Saturday, Nov. 6, Sunday Nov. 7, and Tuesday, Nov. 9.
We look forward to serving the section at this year’s Governing Council.

Reported by:
Joan Trendell: jtrendel@hhcorp.org
Beth Dixon: beth.dixon@nyu.edu
Anna-Maria Siega-Riz: siegariz@email.unc.edu