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The Section on Public Health creates a
forum for deliberation of relevant issues
in public health, and provides information
for the development of health policy.
The Section brings together public health
professionals from all across the region
to study public health problems and assess
potential responses. Section events are
listed on the College's Calendar
of Events.
The Section is chaired by Carolyn H. Asbury,
PhD.
Presentation given by Dr. Giridhar Mallya, MD, MSHP at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, on June 16, 2010.
Dr. Mallya is the Director of Policy and Planning for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health and the Primary Investigator for Philadelphia's CDC-funded Communities Putting Prevention to Work Tobacco Policy & Control and Nutrition & Physical Activity initiatives. Philadelphia's Communities Putting Prevention to Work initiative, has received funding totaling $25.4 Million, one of the largest public health grants the city has ever received. Click here for the presentation.
Congratulations
to our 2010 Public Health Recognition Awards
recipients:
Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH (click
here for more information) and Jackie
McLaughlin, MS, RD, LDN, Associate Director,
Graduate Program in Public Health Studies,
University of Pennsylvania
Witnesses to Hunger (click
here for more information)
Jackie McLaughlin, MS, RD, LDN, Associate
Director, Graduate Program in Public Health
Studies, University of Pennsylvania; Tianna
Gaines, Witnesses to Hunger member; Marianna
Chilton, PhD, MPH, Director, Witnesses to
Hunger
Photos courtesty
of Imani N. Rutledge.
2010 Poster Session
Winners:
Anschuetz, Greta L., Philadelphia Department
of Public Health, Division of Disease Control
- RECENT INCREASE IN EARLY SYPHILIS AMONG
HETEROSEXUALS IN PHILADELPHIA, 2006-2009
(Poster #1)
Katie Thomas, MPH - Thomas Jefferson University
School of Population Health - CARING FOR
THE AMISH AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE COMMUNITY'S
DECISION TO REJECT PARTICIPATION IN HEALTH
INSURANCE AND GOVERNMENT-ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS:
A POLICY ANALYSIS (Poster #27)
Jennifer E. Rosen - Temple University -
ACCULTURATION AND THE ASSOCIATION TO CHILDHOOD
OBESITY IN LOW-SOCIOECOMIC STATUS POPULATION
IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL (Poster #33)
To view full abstracts, please click
here.
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
Membership in the Section is open to everyone.
Section Members pay dues which go towards
the cost of programming and mailings to
its members:
- Student Membership - FREE
- All other members - $35
For more information, and to join the Section,
please fill out this form.
If you have any questions, please contact
Cristen Stump at 215-399-2268 or cstump@collegeofphysicians.org
Executive Committee
Meeting Minutes
June 23, 2010 Meeting
May 27, 2010 Meeting
April 19, 2010 Meeting
March 17, 2010 Meeting
February 17, 2010 Meeting
January 20, 2010 Meeting
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