Author: ihsection

Graduate Student Fellowships In Humanitarian Shelter and Settlements (Habitat for Humanity International/USAID)

by ihsection, posted in APHA IH Section, Internships and Fellowships

The deadline however for submission is June 23rd, 2017.

Fellowship Description: USAID/OFDA seeks to support the thesis or professional report writing efforts of two Fellows during the summer of 2017. Fellows will be graduate students currently enrolled full-time in accredited North American graduate school programs or North Americans studying abroad in similar graduate programs, in the following disciplines:

  • City, Urban, Environmental, or Regional Planning, and
  • Architecture or Architectural engineering

Ideally, successful candidates would be first-year, Masters-level, graduate students, in the programs listed above, who are interested in commencing work on a thesis or professional report as a requirement for graduation. The topic of this graduate student research would be focused on any of the following topics of interest:

  • Managing the transition of humanitarian shelter to permanent housing
  • Linking and incorporating hazard mapping efforts into settlements planning to promote risk reduction
  • Post-disaster neighbourhood-level planning efforts designed to promote safer, sustainable, and resilient shelters and settlements
  • Post-disaster emergency urban planning to reconfigure disaster-affected settlements to promote risk reduction, increase shelter opportunities, and accelerate recovery
  • Measuring the contribution of humanitarian shelter to the recovery of disaster-affected households and/or communities.
  • Identification and review of assessment tools (including GIS and open source mapping technologies) intended to better understand and deal with the urban context, thereby informing efforts to support effective and expeditious humanitarian S&S sector activities
  • Informal land management and tenure mechanisms that promote risk reduction or ensure occupancy of land and housing for displaced/vulnerable populations.

 

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Webinar Invitation: Investing in a Robust Environmental Health System

by ihsection, posted in APHA IH Section, Events and Webinars

You’re invited to attend!

Investing in a Robust Environmental Health System

June 8 from 1:30–3 p.m. EDT                                        

The National Environmental Health Partnership Council and the American Public Health Association are proud to present a live conversation on Investing in a Robust Environmental Health System on June 8 from 1:30–3 p.m. EDT. We all deserve to live in healthy environments with clean air to breathe, clean water to drink and free from physical hazards. This webinar will bring to life the Environmental Health Playbook: Investing in a Robust Environmental Health System report compiled by the National Environmental Health Partnership Council – a group of environmental health thought leaders. Experts from the environmental health workforce, academia and policy will showcase various aspects that come together to produce an environmental health system. Register today.
Welcome:

  • Georges C. Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health Association

Moderator:

  • Laura Anderko, PhD, RN, Professor, School of Nursing & Health Studies, Georgetown University, Director, Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment

Presenters:

  • Surili Sutaria Patel, MS, Senior Program Manager, Environmental Health, Center for Public Health Policy, American Public Health Association
  • Charles D. Treser, MPH, DAAS, Executive Director, Association of Environmental, Health Academic Programs, Senior Lecturer, University of Washington
  • Jack Rayburn, MPH, Senior Government Relations Manager, Trust for America’s Health
  • David T. Dyjack, DrPH, CIH, Executive Director and CEO, National Environmental Health Association

Stay involved! Follow the conversation on social media using the hashtags #APHAwebinar and #EH4All. The National Environmental Health Partnership Council strives to support healthy people by working for healthier environments. Find out more, please visit www.apha.org/nehpc.

This webinar was funded through cooperative agreement U38OT000131 between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Public Health Association. The contents of this webinar are solely the responsibility of the presenters and do not necessarily represent the official views of the American Public Health Association or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

We’ve just launched our new and improved website, IH Connect!

by ihsection, posted in APHA IH Section, Section Announcements

Welcome to our new and improved website, IH Connect, the unofficial home of the American Public Health Association’s International Health Section. We hope this new website will help you stay engaged with the IH section and the broader global health community.

The IH Connect website contains information about the Section’s vision and mission, leadership, and major activities, and it links to information and documents about the Section’s history and operations. It also serves as a platform for Section members to share opinion pieces, relevant news to the Section and the field of global health, and other items of interest. We encourage you to subscribe to our website to get notified by email when there is new content.

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IH Connect is brought to you by a dedicated group of IH section volunteers. If you’re interested in learning more about our work and how to get involved, click here.

We welcome your suggestions and feedback. Please feel free to email us at ihsection.communications@gmail.com

APHA releases statement: Decision to withdraw from climate agreement is a disaster for public health

by ihsection, posted in Climate Change and Environment, Section Announcements

APHA Executive Director Dr. Georges Benjamin has released a statement regarding President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

Decision to withdraw from climate agreement is a disaster for public health

Statement from Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health Association

Washington, D.C., June 1, 2017 — “President Donald Trump’s decision today to renege on U.S. commitments to fighting climate change and withdraw from the Paris Agreement has disastrous consequences for human health.

“The climate accord, which establishes a long-term framework to reduce carbon emissions among more than 190 nations, marks a historic step toward addressing one of the greatest public health challenges of our time. As a leading emitter of greenhouse gases, U.S. participation and leadership is critical to reaching target global reductions and minimizing health threats.

“This administration has already taken significant steps to roll back progress we’ve made in addressing climate change. Today’s reckless decision is further abdication of leadership at the federal level to protect public health. But our work on climate change will not be stopped. Today’s announcement underscores the importance of continued action at the state and local level to address this threat.

“The science is clear. Climate change is happening and it’s affecting our health. A changing climate affects our food supply, the spread of infectious disease, our water systems and air quality, and much more. All have significant impacts on human health.

“We will continue our efforts to educate, advocate and mobilize action around this critical public health challenge. We have designated 2017 as the Year of Climate Change and Health and the APHA 2017 Annual Meeting and Expo will focus on climate change and health in November.”

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The American Public Health Association champions the health of all people and all communities. We strengthen the public health profession. We speak out for public health issues and policies backed by science. We are the only organization that influences federal policy, has a 145-year perspective and brings together members from all fields of public health. Visit www.apha.org.

For more information, please contact David Fouse, 202-777-2501.

 

APHA 2017 Section Elections Start May 25th!

by ihsection, posted in APHA IH Section, Section Announcements

The polls for the American Public Health Association’s Section Elections will be open May 25 – June 15.

As an APHA member, selecting Section leadership is an integral part of your Association’s governance. We encourage you to take part in this year’s election.

On May 25, look for an email (subject line: “APHA Voting Information Enclosed”) that will include voting instructions and a direct link to your online ballot.

All you have to do is click on the link, review the candidate statements and VOTE!

Rest assured the site is secure and will prevent anyone from voting more than once.