A note from the Membership Committee…

The Membership Committee has seen some exciting changes since the beginning of the year. As you may be aware, this year we invited student representatives to be on each committee within the Health Administration Section. We are excited to announce that all the positions were successfully filled by our enthusiastic and bright student members. Please join us in welcoming Rachel Butler, Alan Card, Katie Pine, Lester Leslie and Michael Aponte to the various committees! Katie is our featured guest in this quarter’s “Getting to Know our Members.”

The Membership Committee has been working to identify action plans to support our strategic goals for 2011:

• recruit current APHA members to identify Health Administration as their second or third section.
• retain current members by ensuring that the HA Section adds value to their membership goals.

We have a team of dedicated committee members working diligently on identifying these action plans and working collaboratively with other HA committees to implement these ideas. For example, we have worked with the HA Communications Committee in developing a short survey for our members to learn about what you value. Please look forward to the survey shortly!!

Finally, Geneva Garner, the co-chair of the Membership Committee, has chosen to step down from her position due to personal reasons. We are sad to see Geneva leave; however, we wish her the very best in all her endeavors.

Michael Aponte has been appointed as the co-chair of the committee. He represents a fresh leadership perspective, a student member representative, as well as a passion about public health and health care administration. Welcome, Michael!

Please stay tuned for more updates from the committee in the next few months. If you would like to be involved with our committee, have an idea you would like to suggest, or just learn more about us, please email our committee chairs at maponte312@gmail.com or acyriljo@jhsph.edu.

Communication Committee Update
We have been working hard gathering leadership and committee chair input in developing a survey for our section that was designed to better serve the current and future communication and membership needs. We look forward to sharing the results with all of our members as soon as the survey is completed. We invite our section to: Cast your vote in our Section Election and take our Section Membership Survey.