Category: Section Announcements

The following is a message from Jirair Ratevosian, the IH Section’s Program Committee Chair.

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APHA’s 2017 Annual Meeting and Expo brings together more than 13,000 attendees and features 1,000 scientific presentations highlighting the latest in research and policy.

Are you interested in helping the Program Committee review abstracts in 2017?

As a reviewer, you will be assigned 3-10 abstracts to review. All abstracts are reviewed by three reviewers, and your score is tallied with the other two reviewers to help determine which programs should be accepted. Time commitment is typically 1-3 hours.

Deadline to sign up: January 31
Membership: Must be a current APHA member
Reviewing Begins: March 7

Please sign up to register here.

As a time-limited commitment, reviewing abstracts is a great opportunity for students and early career professionals to learn more about the abstract writing process, as well as the inner workings of the Annual Meeting. It is also a superb way to be active in the IH Section and help the Program Committee present a science-strong program in 2017.

The Mentoring Committee would like to thank the following IH Section members for their assistance during the development of the Round 2 Pilot of the Global Health Mentoring Program:

Erick Amick
Abimola Williams
Chelsea Alex
Brittany Roth
Dr. Nur Onvural
Giancarlo Atassi
Maliha Ahmed

This Pilot would not have happened without your hard work and dedication. Thank you for volunteering your time to make this program a success.

Theresa Majeski
Chair, Mentoring Committee

IH Section Members, the day you’ve been eagerly waiting for has arrived. The second issue of the Section Connection is now out!

http://bit.ly/SectionConnection2

This issue covers the major IH happenings at the 2016 Annual Meeting, some great interviews with your fellow IH colleagues, and highlights ways for you to get involved in the Section.

About the Program: The IH Section Global Health Mentoring Program is an initiative of the Global Health Connections Working Group to pair experienced global health professionals with student or early career professional members of the APHA IH Section. This program runs January through September each year and emphasizes the personal and professional growth and development of student or early career professional IH Section members.

About the Pilot: This pilot is the second round of an International Health Section initiative to start a Section-specific Global Health Mentoring Program. Many changes were made between this round and the previous pilot round. Applicants who participated in the first round are welcome to apply again for the second round as participation in the first round does not impact your ability to participate in the second round.

This Round 2 Pilot is aiming for 20 mentor/mentee matches and we predict that there will be far more than 20 mentee applications. Therefore, if you know of other IH Section members who may be interested in mentoring please encourage them to apply to be mentors as that allows us to match more students/early career professional mentees with suitable mentors.

Applications for the Round 2 Pilot (January 2017 – September 2017) will be accepted until December 24, 2016 at 12:59 PM Eastern Time.

For more information and to apply, click here.

If you have any questions please feel free to email us at: ih.gh.mentoring@gmail.com

We are excited to present the Section Connection, the IH Section’s new quarterly e-newsletter! This one-year e-newsletter pilot was conceptualized and compiled by our Global Health Connections Committee Chair, Theresa Majeski, according to feedback from a survey of the Section’s students and early career professionals conducted earlier this year. The newsletter features an introduction to select members of the Section leadership, information on how to get connected within APHA, tips on how to get the most out of the upcoming Annual Meeting in Denver, and a special dedication to one of our most dedicated Section members, Miriam Labbok, who passed away this year.

Many longtime Section members remember our original Section newsletter, which was compiled each year by a designated editor and disseminated by APHA staff. While APHA has retired this version of the newsletter, we have collected and archived previous editions on APHA Connect, going all the way back to the year 2000. You can access those in our Section’s APHA Connect documents library. (Note: You will need to log in with your APHA membership credentials.)