Title: Announcements
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Section/SPIG: Food and Nutrition
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Become a Partner in National Public Health Week
Join APHA in observing National Public Health Week as a national or local partner! NPHW 2005, to take place April 4-10, will focus on empowering Americans to live stronger, longer. Today, many individuals and their families, as well as communities and policy-makers, are not taking the preventive actions necessary to keep aging Americans stronger and healthier throughout their later years. As a result, older Americans often endure chronic physical and mental illnesses that could have been avoided or diminished if they were more proactively addressed. At APHA, we believe that it is never too late to address these issues. During NPHW, APHA and its partners will promote the three “Ps” in adding more healthy years to life: Prevent, Protect and Plan.
To become a local or national partner, please sign up at <http://www.apha.org/nphw/sponsors/05-partner_form.cfm>. There is no cost to being a partner because we know the success of NPHW will depend on the energy of our national and local partnerships. If you have any questions, please contact Lakitia Mayo at (202) 777-2515 or at <lakitia.mayo@apha.org>.
Purchase Your APHA Annual Meeting Photos Online Now
Hundreds of photos from the 132nd APHA Annual Meeting can be viewed and purchased online for a limited time. From the Annual Meeting opening session with environmental advocate Erin Brockovich to the closing session with Kenneth Olden, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, photographers were on hand in Washington, D.C., Nov. 6-10, capturing the meeting events.
The photos now available online include the APHA Celebration, APHA Awards Celebration and Committee on Affiliates reception as well as many scientific sessions, socials and other events. Web users can browse the complete Annual Meeting photo library or view photos by day. Hard copies of the photos can be ordered via the Web site for $5 for 4x6 prints, $8 for 5x7 prints, $15 for 8x10 prints and $40 for 11x14 prints, plus shipping/handling charges and taxes, if applicable.
To view or order photos, go to <http://www.apha.org/meetings> and click on the link for “Photographs from the 2004 Annual Meeting” or visit <http://www.jowdy.com/photos> and click on “American Public Health Association.” The photos, which were taken by Jowdy Photography of San Antonio, Texas, will be available for purchase online through March 1.
2005 Call for APHA Association-Wide Award Nominations
The American Public Health Association is now accepting nominations for several extraordinary public health leadership awards. The deadline for nominations is April 30, 2005. For more information, go to <http://www.apha.org/sections/awards/>. Awards will be presented at the APHA 133rd Annual Meeting in November.Apply Now for the 2005 Crumbine Award
The Samuel J. Crumbine Consumer Protection Award for Excellence in Food Protection at the Local Level is seeking submissions for its 2005 program. The Crumbine Award is given for excellence and continual improvement in a comprehensive program of food protection at the local level. Deadline for entries is March 15, 2005. To learn more about the award or to apply, please visit <http://www.fpi.org/jahia/Jahia/cache/offonce/pid/40>.
Pacific Health Education Center (<www.pacifichealth.org>) is starting a three-year weight loss study providing weekly community support for 200 obese family members to lose 30 pounds and join the National Weight Control Registry. For more information go to . Please e-mail suggestions for study parameters to Food and Nutrition member Andy Ng at <healthdoctor@yahoo.com>.
Andy Ng
healthdoctor@hotmail (home)
healthdr@pacifichealth.org (work)
661-633-5300 X 314
CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS:
Zettie D. Page III, director, Division of Quality Improvement, Office of Accountability, Washington, D.C. Department of Mental Health, has been invited to be a guest editor of Stress, Trauma and Crisis: An International Journal for a double issue entitled “Poverty, Mental Health and its correlates.” The focus includes both micro/macro perspectives at the individual, group or organizational level experience of the stress, trauma or crisis of poverty, mental illness and associated correlates. Interested authors who are engaged in research on this topic are invited to consider submitting a manuscript for this double issue. Currently, the timeline for completed manuscripts is December 2004 through February 2005. The double issue is anticipated to be in print fall 2005 initially in journal form to be followed by publication in hard and soft-cover book format.
Further information and instructions for authors may be obtained by e-mailing <zpage@direcway.com>.
If you have an idea or topic that you would like to discuss for possible submission, contact:
Dr. Zettie D. Page III
104 Fort Dr NE, Suite #5,
Washington, D.C. 20011
(202) 635-5007, e-mail: <zpage@direcway.com>.