Dear Medical Care Colleagues:

The Medical Care Section wants to help interested Section members get appointed to the APHA-wide boards or committees of their choice.  Listed below are the boards and committees to which a member of the Medical Care Section can be nominated in 2011:

•        Action Board  -  11 vacancies

•        AJPH Editorial Board- 5 vacancies

•        Annual Meeting Program Planning at Large - 3 vacancies 

•        Awards Committee - 4 vacancies

•        Committee on Bylaws - 2 vacancies

•        Committee on Membership- 1 vacancy

•        Committee on Women's Rights (COWR) - 2 vacancies

•        Education Board- 5 vacancies

•        Equal Health Opportunity Committee (EHOC) - 3 vacancies

•        International Human Rights Committee (IHRC)- 5 vacancies

•        Intersectional Council Steering Committee  -  no vacancies

•        Martha May Eliot Award Committee - 2 vacancies

•        Publications Board - 5 vacancies

•        The Nation's Health Advisory Committee - 3 vacancies

For the full list of openings and more detail on each committee, go to http://www.apha.org/about/gov/leadership/Full list of 2011 Open Positions.htm

Materials are due to APHA by March 31. 

The APHA and the Medical Care Section are committed to having a diverse membership and a diverse leadership.  We seek candidate diversity with respect to race/ethnicity, gender, age, geography and profession.  We invite you to get more involved in the Medical Care Section and in APHA. 

The nomination form can be found at the following link: http://www.apha.org/about/gov/leadership/default.htm

Get involved now! 

Many thanks.

Gail

Gail R. Bellamy, PhD

Immediate Past Chair

Mona

Mona Sarfaty, MD

Chair