Title: Announcement: Alison Hughes Retires

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Section/SPIG: Medical Care

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Alison Hughes, a long-time Medical Care Section activist, has announced her retirement as director of Arizona's Rural Health Office, located in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, at the University of Arizona. For almost two decades, she has contributed to the Medical Care Section by serving as editor of the rural health committee newsletter, chairing the rural health committee, serving on Governing Council and Action Board, and serving as Medical Care Section secretary and membership chair.

She writes that the members of Medical Care Section contributed in deep ways to her appreciation of a set of core values that make the Section stand out as the most important in APHA – values that respect equality, justice, and the elimination of health disparities at all levels, among all populations in the country, indeed, in the world.

"I will always remember the Section's long-term activists and their contributions to social change, and offer these words to the new Section members. APHA is huge. You can get lost when you first start attending the Annual Meetings. Stick with it. Stick with Medical Care. Get to know the activists and the values they represent. Never give up advocating for social change, and let you advocacy represent those deep-seated core values that we all hold dear."

Alison will continue to work at the Rural Health Office on a part-time basis. She will still be with us at Medical Care in spirit, and sometimes, in person. She sends her love and regrets that she won't be at the Philadelphia Meeting.