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My year as APHA president has flown by quickly and has been extremely invigorating and rewarding. I thank all those who have hosted me at their Affiliate annual meetings and [...]

TO IMPROVE the health of the public during the 21st century, public health practitioners, policy-makers and researchers must incorporate informatics and genomics--two new evolving public health issues--into ongoing planning, programming [...]

The recent budget debates in Congress over the State Children's Health Insurance Program reauthorization remind me of how our country has gone astray in building up the military industrial complex [...]

Recent reports showing that childhood obesity and chronic illness are on the rise serve as a national wake-up call. But who is listening and who is responding? To be competitive [...]

As APHA president, I had the privilege in May to participate in a retreat in Bellagio, Italy, that centered on updating the strategic plan for the World Federation of Public [...]

Mental health and addictions to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs need to be a central concern of public health practitioners, researchers and organizations. Although millions of Americans suffer with the [...]

I am embarrassed and saddened each year when I review how the infant mortality rate for the United States compares with that of other nations. According to the Centers for [...]

During the past decade, the country has faced major emergencies ranging from terrorism to natural disasters. Responses to the anthrax attacks that occurred after Sept. 11, 2001 and Hurricane Katrina [...]

APHA depends upon the active participation of members to get the work of the organization accomplished. In addition to the expertise and skills of our outstanding staff, APHA counts on [...]

As Martin Luther King Jr. stated, "of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." The number of uninsured Americans in 2004 was [...]