Affiliate awards honor members' contributions to public health.The APHA Committee on Affiliates presented three awards honoring outstanding contributions to public health at its annual awards ceremony and reception in October. The event, which took place during APHA's 136th Annual Meeting in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , culminated with the presentation of the Award for Excellence, the Chair's Citation--which is chosen by the CoA chair--and the Committee on Affiliates 2008 Commendation COMMENDATION. The act of recommending, praising. A merchant who merely commends goods he offers for sale, does not by that act warrant them, unless there is some fraud: simplex commendatio non obligat. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For demonstrating outstanding leadership in advocating and promoting public health, the Committee on Affiliates 2008 Award for Excellence went to Wisconsin Public Health Association member and former CoA Chair Elizabeth A. Zelazek, MS. "APHA has been very good to me, and I hope I have been able to give something back to APHA," said Zelazek upon accepting the award. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] During many years of service to the Wisconsin Affiliate, Zelazek has served as a board member and Affiliate president. She presently serves as the Wisconsin Affiliate's representative to APHA's Governing Council. Zelazek, who is an APHA member, has represented Wisconsin in several national programs and is an active member in the Great Lakes Great Lakes, group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, creating a natural border between the United States and Canada and forming the largest body of freshwater in the world, with a combined surface area of c.95,000 sq mi (246,050 sq km). Public Health Coalition, which includes the public health associations This is a list of national and regional public health associations. List African Region (AFRO)
Also honored during the CoA ceremony in October was APHA member Gerald Ohta, who received the Chair's Citation Citation (foaled 1945) U.S. Thoroughbred racehorse. In four seasons he won 32 of 45 races, finished second in ten, and third in two. He won the 1948 Triple Crown, and became the first horse to win $1 million. He set a world record in 1950 by running a mile in 1:33 3/5. . "I am very humbled because I know the kind of people who have received the Chair's Citation before," Ohta said. Ohta, who served as president of the Hawaii Affiliate from 1980 to 1982, has contributed to public health efforts in Hawaii for more than 30 years. He is a former member of the APHA Committee on Affiliates, the APHA Nominating Committee A nominating committee is a group formed usually from inside the membership of an organization for the purpose of nominating candidates for office within the organization. It works similarly to an electoral college, the main difference being that the available candidates, either and the APHA Joint Policy Committee, and has served as the Hawaii Affiliate's representative to APHA's Governing Council since 1999. Ohta has distinguished himself as a key link between Hawaii's public health work force and APHA leadership, and has worked to bring attention to the unique public health issues that confront them and their counterparts in Alaska, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. his nominators. Also during the ceremony, the editorial board of the Michigan Journal of Public Health and its publisher, the Michigan Public Health Association, received a Committee on Affiliates 2008 Commendation for their work to make the journal a reality. Greg Cline cline, in biology, any gradual change in a particular characteristic of a population of organisms from one end of the geographical range of the population to the other. , PhD, founded the biannual bi·an·nu·al adj. 1. Happening twice each year; semiannual. 2. Occurring every two years; biennial. bi·an Michigan Journal of Public Health while serving as president of the Michigan Public Health Association in December 2006. The journal's editorial board was "honored" to receive the commendation, he told The Nation's Health. "For myself, it was satisfying that we received the award as a group," Cline said. "From my position of having suggested and led the process, I am acutely aware that (the journal) succeeded as a large group effort, not through any individual effort." |
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