- Registration and Lodging: Register for the meeting and make your hotel reservation soon. Note: Presenters must be individual members of APHA to present their paper(s) and must register in advance for the meeting. Session organizers and moderators are also required to be members and pay the appropriate registration fee. Hope to see you in Philadelphia
- APHA Career Guidance Center: Don't miss this opportunity! Sign up now for a one-on-one or a group session with a professional career coach at the APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition. These coaches can guide you in strategizing the next phase of your career and help you define your goals. Select a 45-minute individual session or a 90-minute group session. The group sessions are designed according to your career needs. To see which session best fits for you, please read about each coach's experience and education before setting an appointment. If you have never experienced coaching before, this is a wonderful introduction to what may become a useful service for your career! https://secure.commpartners.com/apha/careers/mentorlist.php?event=7
- New Epi Books: APHA Press has three books in production of interest to epidemiologists and other health professionals that will be available at the Annual Meeting: Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Control, 3rd edition by Patrick Remington, Ross Brownson and Mark Wegner and two books by Steven S. Coughlin, Ethics in Epidemiology and Public Health Practice, 2nd Edition and Case Studies in Public Health Ethics, 2nd edition.
· Section Scavenger Hunt: Joyce has signed up the ICEHS to participate in a new scavenger hunt at the Annual Meeting. Conference attendees will receive a scavenger hunt form that includes information about each of the APHA Sections (the information on the form will be supplied by each section). Conference attendees will then visit your Section booth, and find the answer to the question, either by talking to someone, or because you have strategically placed the answer somewhere in your booth. Once a conference attendee completes all the answers, they submit their card, and if they have all the right answers, they are placed in the drawing to win a prize – such as:
• A 2010 conference registration.
• A year’s membership to the Section of their choice.
• Or…some other gifts that we identify.
· APHA Candidate Forum: There has been a change in APHA election campaign procedures this year that requires all candidate questions for the candidate forum be submitted in advance. The deadline for submission of candidate questions was Friday, Sept. 11, 2009.
Candidates for Executive Board and President-Elect participate in a forum that includes a segment of questions from Council members. In the past, these were submitted “live” during the session, and the candidates were given only a few minutes to formulate their answers. Over the past year, the Nominations Committee solicited feedback from past candidates and, in response, has instituted a new procedure for the 2009 elections.
This involves two changes:
1) Questions for the candidates will be collected in advance, consolidated and condensed by the Nominations Committee to no more than six, and sent to the candidates about a month before the Annual Meeting. [The Saturday forum will have roughly the same structure – separate segments for each candidate to deliver a prepared statement and to respond to questions.]
2) Different sets of position-specific questions will be given to the Executive Board and President-Elect candidates.
If you have ICEHS Section questions, please send them to Anara Guard at aguard@edc.org. She will see that they reach the person who is submitting them on behalf of the Section. There will be no live questions this year.