Congratulations to the 2020 APHA International Health Section Award Winners!

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This year, we had a good pool of candidates for the various awards offered by our Section. Congratulations to our colleagues whose outstanding accomplishments in international health are being recognized by our Section this year.

Carl Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award in International Health
Dr. Gopal Sankaran

Mid-Career Award in International Health
Mr. William Rosa

Gordon-Wyon Award for Community-Oriented Public Health, Epidemiology and Practice
Dr. Paul Freeman

Young Professional Award
Ms. Jessica Keralis

Distinguished Section Service Award
Ms. Laura Arntson

  • Laura Arntson, Distinguished Section Service Award
    Laura Arntson, Distinguished Section Service Award
  • Jessica Keralis, Young Professional Award
    Jessica Keralis, Young Professional Award
  • William Rosa, Mid-Career Achievement Award
    William Rosa, Mid-Career Award
  • Paul Freeman, Gordon-Wyon Award
    Paul Freeman, Gordon-Wyon Award
  • Gopal Sankaran, Lifetime Achievement Award
    Gopal Sankaran, Lifetime Achievement Award

The Awards Committee encourages all to nominate a colleague and/or be willing to be nominated next year. To find out more information about nominating a colleague or to view a list of past award winners, please visit the IH Section’s Awards webpage.

We would also like to congratulate this year’s top-scoring Early Career Professional abstracts:

Mara Howard-Williams: Policy precedes law: A legal epidemiology study of mental health and international human rights law

Hannah Stewart: Impact of natural disasters on mental health outcomes of first responders in central Myanmar

Qing Xu: Content analysis of Chinese-language social media user-generated expression of uncertainty during the covid-19 outbreak on weibo

  • Mara Howard-Williams
    Mara Howard-Williams
  • Hannah Stewart
    Hannah Stewart
  • Qing Xu
    Qing Xu

Every year the IH section awards $500 scholarships to top scoring abstracts submitted by IH Early Career Professionals. Don’t forget to submit your abstract to next year’s meeting in Denver!

Missed the awards ceremony? Re-watch the ceremony here.

Read the latest issue of the IH Section’s e-newsletter, Section Connection!

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 Message from our Chair

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Dear friends and colleagues,

Warm greetings! I hope you are staying well as we all continue to adapt to this new norm. As this is my last “Message from the Chair”  before I hand the Chair role over to Dr. Padmini Murthy after the Annual Meeting, I want to let you know how inspired I am by the work that each one of you is contributing to the COVID-19 response and to strengthening the broader global and public health community. On behalf of our section leadership team, I offer our gratitude for your contributions and the hope that you will continue to share your accomplishments, challenges and learnings with your International Health section community.

Next week is the start of our Annual Meeting. And even though we are going virtual this year, our leaders have arranged various activities and opportunities for us to connect with each other. You can visit us at the Exhibit Booth during one of our virtual office hours on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday; at our Open House on Sunday; or our Networking and Awards Ceremony on Tuesday. There will be plenty of opportunities for networking with each other during these events. You will find more information on our events in our round-up of IH events at the Annual Meeting in this issue.

In addition, you will read an interview with two of our members – Frances Dean and Vanessa Chilombo Da Costa; hear updates from our various working groups and committees; and get up close and personal with leaders from our Global and Maternal Child Health Network.

Please click here to access our latest issue of Section Connection: http://bit.ly/SectionConnection14

We look forward to seeing you at our section activities at the Annual Meeting, and hope you will continue to stay connected and involved with our section.

Sarah Shannon
International Health Section Chair

Get involved with the IH Section’s Climate Change & Health Working Group!

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Call for Climate Changes Essays: The International Health Section’s Climate Change and Health Working Group, as part of its Excellence in Climate Leadership Award, is recruiting students and early career professionals to develop climate change essays and actions: there are small cash awards.  Please contact Rose Schneider, rschneider@jhu.edu.

Complete the Climate and Health Survey: We encourage your participation in the updated Climate and Health survey promoted in APHA and other institutions.   See flyer and link to U. Miami qualtrics survey. Survey results will be reported at APHA 2020.  For more information, please contact Dr. Daniel Samano, dxs1059@med.miami.edu

Learn more about adding climate change courses in schools of public health: Recent research found a lack of a required climate change course in curricula in U.S. schools and programs of public health. Research findings will be presented at APHA 2020. Discussions with the Global Consortium of Climate and Health Education and the Council of Education for Public Health are planned.   For more information, please contact Dr. Mona Arora,  manand@email.arizona.edu or Dr. Julie Becker, j.becker@usciences.edu

IH’s own Section Councilor, Dr. Mark Strand, Lead Author on COVID and pharmacy paper

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International Health Section Councilor, Dr. Mark Strand, was the lead author on a paper highlighting the contributions of community pharmacy to COVID response and mitigation.  Community pharmacists assist patients to manage disease and prevent complications. Despite the enormous challenge the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has dealt to the health care system, community pharmacists have maintained the delivery of critical health services to communities, including those most at risk for COVID-19. Community pharmacists are in a key position to deliver priority pandemic responses including point-of-care testing for chronic disease management, vaccinations, and COVID-19 testing.

Here is a link to the paper, from the CDC journal Preventing Chronic Disease. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7380294/

Webinar: “How Does a Society Reclaim Human Flourishing When Faced with a Pandemic?”, 10/20

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October 20th | 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. CST

The NDSU Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth and the NDSU Department of Public Health are proud to announce the upcoming webinar, “How Does a Society Reclaim Human Flourishing When Faced with a Pandemic?” 

This virtual panel discussion will explore a number of health and economic questions related to the pandemic. The panel of experts will address issues such as (1) the economic, health, and social costs of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy responses, (2) the difficult balance in addressing economic, health, and social concerns, and (3) the types of policies that are likely to accelerate the return to a society that is physically and mentally healthy, where economic opportunities are growing, and where there is a greater sense of community.

Please go to this web page to register:  

https://www.ndsu.edu/challeyinstitute/events/more_events/