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APHA Governing Council to Vote for New Executive Board Members

Posted on: Saturday, 6 August 2005, 03:01 CDT

The Executive Board has 12 elected members, with three elected annually to four-year terms. The Governing Council will elect three new Executive Board members during APHA's 133rd Annual Meeting in New Orleans in November. Voters will choose from the slate of six candidates, whose biographies follow.

Chris Day

CHRIS DAY, MPH, is an associate for public health systems improvement for the Public Health Foundation in Washington, D.C., where he previously worked as an analyst. He has developed the Training-Finder Real-time Affiliate Integrated Network, a nationwide learning system for public health. The system links 25 states into one system that has helped officials in those states set and maintain consistent data and quality standards.

Day

Day also developed the Student Health Alliance, a coalition of 13 national student organizations representing the leadership of more than 200,000 health professions students.

Day has given more than 30 presentations at national, state and local meetings. He has participated on several U.S. delegations on global health issues, such as the China/U.S. Medicine and Public Health Initiative Conference. As an ex officio member in 2002-2003, Day was the youngest APHA Executive Board member in the Association's history. He was president of APHA's Public Health Student Caucus, a member of the Task Force on Association Improvement and Reorganization, a member of the Education Board and received the Association's 2004 Jay S. Drotman Award, which is given to an outstanding young professional.

Linda Landesman

LINDA LANDESMAN, DrPH, MSW, is assistant vice president at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, where she oversees affiliation contracts, graduate medical education and research. She teaches online public health preparedness courses as adjunct professor in the public health practice program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Landesman began her 30-year career working in California as a social worker focusing on sub-stance abuse, pediatric death and dying, and maternal and child health. She has conducted research on asthma and lead and was the principal investigator for the first Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Curriculum for Public Health Preparedness. The author of several books and articles, she serves on committees such as the Commissioner's Advisory Committee for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Landesman

An APHA member since 1989, Landesman has chaired the Nominations Committee and served on the Governing Council, Joint Policy Committee and Program Development Board. She currently serves on the American Journal of Public Health Editorial Board, the Committee on Affiliates/Intersectional Council Task Force on Joint Dues, CoA Work Group on Dues, Assessment and Fundraising and is her Affiliate's president.

Andrew Dennis McBride

ANDREW DENNIS MCBRIDE, MD, MPH, is health director and school medical advisor for the city of Milford, Conn. He is a member of the Milford United Way Board of Directors, Milford Environmental Concerns Coalition, Clear Water Action Steering Committee and the mayor's Clean Energy Task Force. He also serves on the University of North Carolina School of Public Health Dean's Advisory Committee.

McBride was Washington, D.C.'s commissioner of public health, senior vice president for advocacy at Children's Hospital National Medical Center, and director of health and medical advisor for the Stamford Health Department in Stamford, Conn., as well as assistant secretary for health and state health director for North Carolina. He also served as senior advisor and adjunct professor at the Institute for Public Health in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

McBride

McBride's contributions to APHA include serving on the Governing Council and the Action Board as well as chairing the Association's Health Administration section. He is a member of the APHA Latino Caucus as well as a board member for APHA's Black Caucus of Health Workers.

Charles Muntaner

CHARLES MUNTANER, MD, MPH, is a professor in the Department of Community Health Nursing at the University of Maryland School of Nursing as well as in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Since the late 1990s, he has been a consultant to the ministry of health in Venezuela and helped support the primary health care program "Barrio Adentro," which has delivered primary care for the first time to 17 million poor residents.

Muntaner

Muntaner's adjunct appointments include the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. Much of Muntaner's research, including a presentation at an APHA Annual Meeting, has focused on health disparities and social justice. His public health practice experience includes teaching, training, consulting and research that contributed to improving the lives of nursing home workers as well as nurse assistants.

As an APHA member, Muntaner has worked on APHA policy resolutions, chaired scientific sessions, received the Wade Hampton Frost Award and been a member of the Occupational Health and Safety and Epidemiology Sections and several Association Caucuses.

Linda Rae Murray

LINDA RAE MURRAY, MD, MPH, is chief medical officer for primary care and community health at the Ambulatory and Community Health Network of Cook County, Ill., an affiliate of the county's Bureau of Health Services. She is attending physician for Woodlawn Health Center, where she supervises medical students and residents in office practice. She also develops and implements summer seminars in community health for medical and college students.

Murray

Murray's career has included 11 years in Cook County and also time in public health agencies, academic settings, a health maintenance organization and as an occupational health practitioner in Canada. She is on the Board of Directors for Trinity Health, the sixth largest health system in the United States, and is on the Advisory Committee for the master's in public health program at Florida A&M University.

An APHA member since 1979, Murray has served on the Governing Council, Nominating Committee, Executive Board, Committee on Laboratory Standards and Practices and the Policy Development Board Committee on Workplace Drug Testing. She is a member of the Black Caucus of Health Workers, Socialist Caucus, Latino Caucus and the Medical Care and Environment Sections.

Ellen R. Shaffer

ELLEN R. SHAFFER, PhD, MPH, is director of the Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health and assistant clinical professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of California in San Francisco. She also works as a consultant in California and Washington, D.C., researching, analyzing and commenting on the financing, organization and outcomes of health care services.

Shaffer's former positions include director of policy for the Robert Wood Johnson Patient-Provider Relationship Initiative and senior health policy advisor to former U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone. She has authored articles published in journals such as the American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy and New England Journal of Medicine. She was a member of the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform, among other task forces and committees.

Shaffer

Shaffer has won many honors, including a March of Dimes policy research grant and a dissertation grant from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. An APHA member since 1984, her contributions include serving on the Joint Policy Committee, coordinating APHA's Network on Globalization and Health and serving as a Section and Affiliate officer.

Copyright American Public Health Association Aug 2005

Source: Nation's Health, The

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