Title: Notes from the Chair

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Section/SPIG: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

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Welcome to 2004! Please note the upcoming dates and deadlines for APHA and ICEHS. Watch future issues of the newsletter and your email for details.

FEBRUARY
13 -— Program abstracts due.
Deadline for awards nominations coming up soon. Contact Larry Cohen for details: <larry@preventioninstitute.org>
Deadline for officer nominations.
13 -- Proposed policy statements due.

APRIL
Deadline for comments on proposed policy statements.

MAY 30
Abstract notifications.

JUNE
Elections—don’t forget to vote!

AUGUST
Election results.
Latebreaker abstracts and posters deadline.

NOVEMBER
6-10 Annual meeting, Washington, D.C.

This newsletter is one of the most important means we have for communicating with one another. Please read it, submit your own contributions, and make sure that your colleagues are receiving it. If they aren’t, it is either because they have failed to renew their membership in the section, or we lack a valid e-mail address for them. In a future issue, I expect to issue a “lost members” call, asking you to help us find people who have lapsed or simply disappeared from view.

Our section committees are growing. The EHS committee has been launched and merged with the revived Disaster committee. Eight people have asked to join this committee. We also have room for you. Or join one of these others:

• Built Environment. This topic area had interested parties at the annual meeting. Is there enough interest out there to form a committee?


• Communications. Coordinates communications for the section, including content of the Web site, production of the newsletter under the Newsletter Editor.
• Data. provides a forum to discuss injury-related data activities and questions.
• Education & Training. Guides education and training efforts within ICEHS; promotes APHA continuing education events; sponsors Student Paper awards. CHAIRS Corrine Peek-Asa, <Corinne-peekasa@uiowa.edu>, and Sue Gerberich, <gerbe001@umn.edu>
• Host. Help organize events within the host city of the annual meeting, which is Washington, D.C. in 2004. Events include social hour, awards dinner. Contact Cathy Gotschall, chair, <cathy.gotschall@nhtsa.dot.gov>
• Membership. Help recruit new members and retain current members. Assist with the section brochure and other recruitment materials. Contact Julie Ross, chair, <Julie.Ross@childrens.harvard.edu>


• Policy. Initiate and facilitate prompt responses to injury policy issues. Coordinate review of proposed policy statements.
• Program. Chaired by Larry Cook, <Larry.Cook@hsc.utah.edu>. Reviewers often needed.
• Violence. This committee is re-forming after a hiatus.

Please contact the chairs or me with any interest you have.