Title: From the Chair

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Section/SPIG: Maternal and Child Health

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This is the last newsletter before the Annual Meeting and therfore my last column. I hope to see many of you in Washington, D.C. As some of you may know, I am running for a seat on the APHA Executive Board and would very much appreciate your support and assistance in my campaign. Because of this,
Jan Weingrad Smith (MCH Section Chair-Elect) may be running some of the Section meetings as I will be needing to make the rounds of the other sections to meet with them. She and I are working closely and she will be focused on continuing the efforts to build an advocacy agenda for the MCH Section.

The MCH program for the meetings is very strong as we had a significant increase in the number of high quality abstract submissions. In addition, there will be an invited session for the Martha May Eliot Forum on childhood obesity that will include former Surgeon General Louis Sullivan. It should be an excellent presentation and session. I hope that many of you will be there.

As this will be my last meeting as Section Chair, I want to thank everyone for making this more fun than work and for the energy and passion all of you bring to the section and to the issues and agendas of the MCH network around the country. It has been my great pleasure to work with you as the Chair and look forward to the future activities of the section.