What else about food, nutrition and obesity is on the APHA website? We would like to develop a project to learn more about and review the food, nutrition, and obesity-related information available on the APHA main website. The purpose of the project would be for the FNS section to provide input, expertise, and recommendations to APHA regarding the content, labeling, and presentation of this work. Do you or one (some) of your students have some time to search the APHA website and provide feedback on items found there? If so, please email Patti Risica, Section Chair, at pmr@brown.edu.
APHA Action: SCHIP, child health insurance, is the federal legislation that allocates funding to states to provide health care for children. You may know the specific program in your state by a different name. Many of the children cared for under this legislation are the same children that WIC and other nutrition programs target for food and nutrition.
This year, APHA is trying a "Grass Tops" approach, by asking APHA members to contact their congressional delegation (members of US Congress and Senate) if they live in one of 20 key states. Of that list of 20 states, 10 still need an APHA member contact. If you live in AR, ID, IA, MI, MS, MT, ND, UT, WV, or WY, it would be very helpful if you could contact your affiliate to coordinate contacting these key congressional representatives. Check the APHA website for contact numbers for your state affiliate, and email donald.hoppert@apha.org if you have questions regarding who, if anyone, is already being contacted in your state.
The rest of us should be in touch with our state affiliates to become a member, and to guide the affiliate to be actively in touch with the congressional delegation during the August recess. Check the APHA website for more information, fact sheets, and other resources.