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Calling for Nominations: The Gordon-Wyon Award for Community-Oriented Public Health, Epidemiology, and Practice
Attention IH Section members! The Community Based Primary Health Care Working Group (CBPHC-WG) is soliciting nominations for this year’s Gordon-Wyon award.   The award honors outstanding achievement in community-oriented public health epidemiology and practice. This award was established in 2006 by the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association.  John Gordon and John Wyon were pioneers in this field, so encouraging and recognizing others in this field is one important way of honoring their memory. More information about the award can be found here.
The evaluation criteria for this award include: (1) The candidate must have had a central role in an outstanding achievement in community-oriented public health and practice; (2) The candidate must have demonstrated creativity in expanding the concepts pertinent to the practice of community-oriented public health with an international focus; and (3) The candidate must have membership in APHA or one of its affiliates (either a State affiliate or a national public health association that is a member of the World Federation of Public Health Associations) at the time that the award is presented. The candidate must be nominated by someone other than the candidate (with the candidate’s approval).
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Previous winners of the award are Rajanikant Arole, Carl Taylor, Henry Perry, Bette Gebrian, Jaime Gofin, and Warren and Gretchen Berggren.
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Please send your nomination and their CV to Paul Freeman by no later than May 14th, 2011 at freeman.p.a@att.net The winner of this award will be decided by the independent votes of a panel of senior members of the CBPHC-WG on the basis of the above criteria.
IH Section Conference Call: Global Code of Practice
Please join us for our next bi-monthly conference call! The call will be held on Monday, April 11 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. EST. An invited panel will discuss recent developments concerning the Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel. This is timely as public comments have been invited on the draft guidelines for monitoring the Code until April 17. John Palen (from the State Department’s Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator) and Pascal Zurn (WHO) will give a brief overview of the topic, and then a group of invited panelists, including Polly Pittman (George Washington University), Cheryl Peterson (American Nursing Association), Estelle Quain (USAID), and Anke Tijtsma (Denmark’s Wemos organization), will ask questions to generate discussion. You are welcome to submit comments and questions for the speaker; however, we ask that you submit them in advance so that the panel can present them to the speaker. This will allow us to keep things organized. Please e-mail questions for the speakers to APHA.Int.Hlth@gmail.com by Friday, April 8 at 8 p.m. EST. For more information on this topic, please refer to the APHA endorsement of the Code of Practice, WHO’s Global Code of Practice website, and APHA’s letter to the U.S. government indicating ways in which we could help with Code implementation.
TOPIC: The Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel
DATE AND TIME: Monday, April 11, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST
PHONE NUMBER: (712) 432-1001 (please note that this is not a toll-free number)
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