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Leadership/Contact Us

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Officers

Chair: Renee M. Johnson

Chair-Elect: Kathleen F. Carlson

Immediate Past Chair: Lauren Pierpoint

Secretary: Chanelle Gutari

Section Councilors: Dylan Hurley, Jason Jones, Nichole Michaels, Melissa Osborne, Cherish Vaught

Student Liaison: Victoria Minka

Governing Councilors: Abdul Tawab Saljuqi and Amy Hunter

 

Committees

Membership — Manages current members and conducts outreach for new members. Chair: Melissa Osbourne

Nominations & Awards — Solicits nominations for Section leadership; Seeks nominations for and distributes four peer-nominated, non-student Section awards at the awards dinner during the Annual Meeting. Chair: Lauren Pierpoint

Policy — Reviews proposed APHA policies and current polices for archive. Chair: Cherish Vaught

Program — Facilitates all activities in support of the science program for the APHA Annual Meeting. Chair: Claudia Der-Martirosian

Student Paper Award — Facilitates all activities in support of the Section's Student Paper Competition. Co-chairs: Kathleen Carlson and Doug Wiebe

Student Oral and Poster Presentation Awards — Facilitates all activities in support of the Section's Student Paper Competition. Chair: Kathleen Carlson

Student Liaison — Works with the APHA Student Assembly to recruit and retain student members. Student Liaison: Victoria Minka

 

Workgroups

Emergency Health Services and Disaster Preparedness — Provides a forum for information and idea sharing among like-minded colleagues across all APHA Sections interested in disaster preparedness. Chair: Norma Quintanilla

Sports and Recreational Injury — aims to highlight issues associated with all physical activity-related injuries that may occur across the lifespan. Co-Chairs: Katie Sniffen and Rebecca Hirschhorn

 

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