The ICEHS booth won third best exhibit at the APHA 135th Public Health Expo in Washington, DC. Long-time member, and former chair, Anara Guard, says this is the first time that the ICEHS section has received recognition for the quality of their booth.
This year’s booth effort involved a greater number of members in pre-meeting planning, preparation, set up and staffing than in previous years. Nancy Nachreiner, worked with Section Chair-Elect, Joyce Pressley, in the months preceding the annual meeting to develop new approaches aimed at attracting and engaging members. Joyce Pressley spearheaded ICEHS brochure updates with particular focus on current ICEHS advocacy activities and membership benefits. Section Chair, Erich Daub, assisted with duplication of the brochure in adequate quantities resolving the brochure and membership material deficiencies identified from the previous year. Nancy Nachreiner prepared staff orientation materials and organized resource materials into easy reference binders. Lois Fingerhut, T. Bella Dinh-Zarr, John Lundell, and Joyce Pressley assisted with booth set up and Leslie Ray and Holly Shipp with tear down, shipping, and storage.
Renee Johnson, Erich Daub, Kathleen F. Carlson, Mira Grice and others organized a booth-based book raffle of injury and violence-related books written and donated by members, former members and colleagues in the field. NCHS/CDC provided highlights of their forthcoming injury chartbook for distribution. Make Roads Safe –The Campaign for Global Road Safety donated globe pens and conducted a Join The Campaign for Global Road Safety in which they collected signatures for a petition that will be presented to the UN with the goal of making road safety a priority issue in 2008. Among other items, the booth distributed computer keyboard calendars, the updated brochures, color-coded daily sheets of injury, violence and emergency health and preparedness-related sessions, awards nomination forms, membership materials, and snacks.
It is never too early to volunteer to participate in this exciting endeavor for the San Diego meeting in October 25-29, 2008. Preparation begins months in advance. Members wishing to contribute to this award winning effort should contact Nancy Nachreiner (nachr001@umn.edu) to make their interests known.