Attention all IH Section members! APHA’s 2012 section elections are coming up next month, so please keep an eye out for e-mails from APHA, and check your spam folders. The text of a recent e-mail from APHA’s Francis Atkinson can be found below.
Dear APHA Member:
The American Public Health Association’s 2012 Section elections are quickly approaching and we are excited to continue offering you the opportunity to vote online. The elections will begin June 29, 2012 and will end on July 30, 2012. On June 29, you will be sent an e-mail notification letting you know that your election is open. The e-mail subject line will read “APHA Voting Information Enclosed”. Please do not delete this e-mail.
* Your online election validation number
* Your APHA membership ID number
* Voting instructions
* A direct link to your voting Web site
All you have to do is click on the direct link and VOTE!
If you choose to vote online, please be assured that the site will be secure and you will have the same level of privacy and anonymity as if voting by mail. The system will prevent anyone from voting more than once.
As a member of APHA, your involvement in the selection of your leadership is an integral part of your Association’s governance. We encourage you to take part in this year’s election.
Sincerely,
Frances Atkinson, MSM
Director of Component Affairs
I thought this was kinda neat: Global Health Channel has posted a collection of videos on various public health initiatives and research institutions in Canada. We tend to focus almost exclusively on the developing world in international health, so it’s nice to be reminded that there is a lot being done that we can learn from in industrialized nations. After all, they are part of the world, too.
IPHRC is a collaborative network working to improve and strengthen the quality of Indigenous health research and the health of Indigenous people. In partnership with Indigenous communities, IPHRC is committed to transformative research that applies Indigenous knowledge and practices. Excellence in knowledge translation guides distinguishes IPHRC’s work.
Alberta Innovates Health Solutions researchers are integrating public health research in Alberta schools, homes, hospitals and doctors’ offices to:
1. Prevent visits to emergencies, re-admission to hospitals
2. Boost the healthy lifestyles of disadvantaged children to prevent obesity.
APPLE schools, introduced in 10 Edmonton schools by Paul Veugelers, PhD, AIHS Health Scholar, has increased consumption of fruit/veggies, increased exercise and reduced obesity in Grade 5 children when compared with a random sample of 3400 Alberta students.
The Institute for Circumpolar Health Research grew out of the Arctic Health Research Network, founded in 2005 by Northern community members, doctors, academics, and scientists who believed that advancing the health and wellness of Northern people and communities as an important area of scientific inquiry and public policy. ICHR focuses on specifically on bringing people, facilities, and resources to bear on health-related research in the Northwest Territories, as well as on raising health and wellness issues throughout the region’s communities and the broader circumpolar world.
The City of Edmonton’s “Way We Live” program is aimed at actively nurturing an arts, culture and athletic community. As part of that goal, the City is developing new recreation centres and modernizing existing ones. The centres fulfill Edmontonians’ social, physical and cultural needs. Another major initiative, Aging in Place, is part of the City of Edmonton’s commitment to be an age-friendly city. Both programs are part of Edmonton’s 10-year plan to make it one of the most liveable in the country.
Partnership for Growth (PFG) is a new model for the United States to engage with a select group of countries to accelerate and sustain broad-based economic growth. It involves rigorous joint analysis of constraints to growth, the development of joint action plans to address these constraints, and high-level mutual accountability for implementation. One of PFG’s objectives is to engage not just aid but also a range of available tools to unlock new investment. CGD was pleased to host Gayle Smith who presented on PFG. Todd Moss moderated a conversation with representatives from the U.S. agencies involved in the partnership as well as representatives from the first set of PFG countries, El Salvador, Ghana, Philippines, and Tanzania.
As we enter a period of budgetary contraction and debate over military spending, and consider the remarkable humanitarian contributions of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific, the Americas, Africa, and elsewhere, the time is ripe for a thoughtful, analytic, and nonpartisan study of American naval medical diplomacy, with strategic and realistic recommendations for its future.
On June 4, CSIS launched an independent task force of experts, chaired by former Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead, to study the value of the U.S. Navy’s proactive humanitarian assistance; to examine the Navy’s capacity for such missions in the future; to review the history and evolution of policy and programs in this area; to forecast the demands on military medicine and humanitarian missions in an age of new technologies and evolving threats to global health; and to inform a sensible, long-term strategy for naval medical diplomacy going forward.
The June 4 event provided a brief explanation of the genesis, purpose, work plan, and expected products of this CSIS task force. We then turned to a lively roundtable discussion, led by Dr. John Hamre, that will put a spotlight on the U.S. Navy’s soft power tools and the evolving importance of its humanitarian missions as U.S. foreign policy pivots toward Asia and the Pacific.
IH CONNECT 