Title: IH SECTION ELECTION RESULTS
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Section/SPIG: International Health
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The IH Section welcomes the following new officers to the section leadership, to assume office at the end of the APHA Annual Meeting in November 2004 in Washington, D.C.:
Samir Banoob, MD, DM, DrPH, PhD, an IH consultant based in South Florida, was elected as Chairperson-elect, to assume the role of Chairperson of the IH Section beginning in 2006, following the term of office of Joseph Valadez. The former Director of IH Programs for the University of South Florida, Banoob has served in some 74 countries as a consultant/advisor to WHO, World Bank, UNICEF, IDB, and USAID. He served previously as IH Secretary and Section Chair from 1988-94 and has served as a member of the APHA Governing Council, Action Board, Intersectional Council, and International Human Rights Committee.
Elvira Beracochea, MD, MPH, Deputy Director of the Advance Africa Project at Management Sciences for Health in Fairfax, Va., was elected to the office of Secretary-elect. Beracochea will assume the job of Section Secretary beginning in 2006, following the term of office of Irshad Shaikh.
Bryn Sakagawa, MPH, and Sharon McDonnell, BSN, MD MPH, were elected to three-year terms as IH Section Councilors. Sakagawa is completing her term as IH Section Secretary and works as a Health Systems Technical Advisor with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C. McDonnell is a medical epidemiologist with the Vermont Department of Health and serves on the faculty of the Dartmouth University School of Medicine Family and Community Medicine Department.
Elected to two-year terms as IH Governing Councilors were: Della Dash, MPH, BSN; Adnan Hyder, MD, MPH, PhD; Beth Rivin, MD, MPH; and Dory Storms, ScD, MPH. They will begin voting on behalf of the IH Section at the APHA Governing Council meetings in 2005. Dash is an independent international public health consultant based in El Cerrito, Calif. She proposed and led the IH Section’s strategic planning process. An incumbent IH Governing Councilor, Hyder is Assistant Professor with the Health Systems Program and Director of the DrPH Program in IH at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Md. Dr. Rivin is a Professor of Law at the University of Washington and Research Professor of Public Health. She also serves as the Director of Health Programs for the U.S.-based NGO, Uplift International. Storms spends half her time directing evaluation and monitoring activities for the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Haiti and the rest based in Baltimore, Md.
The IH Section thanks all who ran for positions in this year's elections and for their interest in and commitment to the section. We are dependent on everyone's continuing input and enthusiasm to ensure the progress and growth of the section. A special thanks to Lani Marquez (<lmarquez@urc-chs.com>), chair of the Nominating Committee, for all her effort to identify candidates and coordinate the process.
It's not too early to be thinking of or suggesting yourselves or others for Section Council or Governing Council positions in the 2005 elections.