Renew your APHA IH Section Membership
Dear International Health Colleague:
This is an exciting time to be a member of APHA and also a member of the International Health Section! IH activities during the past year have included almost 200 scientific presentations and posters at the annual APHA meeting. Recently, the IH Section has been directly involved in significant international issues and provided advocacy and policy input to APHA on issues such as:
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Alliances to decrease maternal mortality
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Global trade and its effects on health in developing countries
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Pharmacovigilance and new essential drugs in Africa and elsewhere
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Assessment of mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq Health
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Manpower recruitment and its effects on developing countries
At our June 2007 semi annual meeting, we discussed a number of key issues including: a significant increase in abstracts for the APHA annual meeting; advocacy actions for a humanitarian agenda, health workforce capacity, universal health coverage, the effectiveness of international aid, and maternal child health issues; the mentoring of new health professionals; and a report out on the Bellagio meeting for new pubic health strategies to support Africa and Asia.
To do even more for international health, we need additional active APHA members. Recently we learned that you did not renew your APHA membership. Since you are a dedicated public health professional, we hope you will consider rejoining APHA. You are important to the International Health Section and we hope that you rejoin APHA and also get involved in key issues of our section. APHA has made it easy – you can rejoin online at https://secure.apha.org/scriptcontent/Custom/Join/Apply.cfm?section=Join.
When you rejoin, we in the IH Membership Committee would be glad to connect you with specific IH Section officers and committee chairs. They can give you in-depth information on the section and on their committee activities and discuss how you could get involved. Please check our website at http://www.apha.org/programs/globalhealth/section/ for further information.
With the many challenges in the international health arena, now is the time for you to again be a part of APHA and the International Health Section. If you have already rejoined – welcome back! We look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Rose Schneider
Chair: Rose Schneider – rschneider@jhu.edu
Co-Chair: Alison Gernand – agernand@jhsph.edu
Core Member: Curtiss Swezy – cswezy@cox.net
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