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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:34:30 -0400
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Subject: CDC Fellowships
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ATPM is currently accepting applications for The CDC-based Preventive Medicine
and Public Health Fellowship Program (21 positions starting this summer).
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Please share this announcement with your students, colleagues, and career
services offices and note that the deadline is in mid-April.
Applications require letters of recommendation and essays, so applicants must
act fast. All application materials can be found on our website:
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Please email training@atpm.org <mailto:training@atpm.org> or call 202-463-0550
with any questions regarding the ATPM Training Programs.
Thank you for helping us make these programs a success and expanding
opportunities for public health and health professions students!
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The Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine (ATPM) is pleased to announce
21 stipend-supported 1-2 year fellowships at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). Fellowship positions are available in a variety of topic areas
and with varying skills and training required. Fellowships are not only for MPH
graduates! Many other disciplines and graduate degrees are eligible. This can be
shared with students in health communication, marketing, biostatistics,
economics, public policy, behavioral sciences, and clinical health professions.
Topics include health communication, epidemiology, occupational health,
infectious disease, genetics, STD prevention and many others.
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Who: This program provides leadership training in public health practice and
policy to: master's, doctoral and post-doctoral level graduate students;
preventive medicine and primary care residents; and early career professionals
(with a minimum of a master's degree) in a variety of disciplines. Applicants
must be U.S. Citizens or hold a visa permitting permanent residence in the U.S.
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Where: Most Fellowship positions are located in Atlanta, Georgia.
Additional locations include Hyattsville, Maryland and Cincinnati, Ohio.
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When: Fellowships will start throughout the summer of 2006.
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Deadline: April 20, 2006
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Detailed information and application materials for all programs are posted on
the ATPM Web site: www.atpm.org <http://66.28.40.186/iweb/forms/04PROG/Announcement/Round%202/www.atpm.o
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For questions or additional information, please email training@atpm.org.
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Thank you!
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#262
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:59:47 -0400
From: Becky Smith <BSmith@AAHPERD.ORG>
Subject: NIH Director's Council of Public Representatives (COPR)
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Drs. Zerhouni and Kington would like to invite you to attend the 15th Meeting of
the NIH Director's Council of Public Representatives (COPR).
It is a public meeting and anyone interested in improving health through medical
research is invited to attend this important meeting. Detailed information is
provided below:
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Title: Attend a meeting of the NIH Director's Council of Public Representatives
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Date: Friday, April 21st
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Building 31C, Conference Room 6 on the NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD
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The meeting agenda is available on the COPR Web site at http://copr.nih.gov
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The NIH Director's Council of Public Representatives (COPR) is a federal
advisory committee, made up of members of the public, who advise the NIH
Director on issues related to:
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The COPR is made up of 21 people from across the country who have been chosen to
represent the public through an open application process. They are patients,
family members of patients, health care professionals, scientists, health and
science communicators, and educators. To learn more visit www.copr.nih.gov.
Public comment will also be included during a portion of the program; see below
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Next steps
You can attend the spring COPR meeting at no cost. Visitors to the NIH campus in
Bethesda, Maryland, should bring a photo ID and allow additional time for
security procedures. Call 301-594-6677 for more information, or visit the Web
site at http://www.nih.gov/about/visitor/index.htm to find the best way to
travel and where to get your visitor badge.
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If you wish to speak during the public comment portion of the meeting, please
contact Jennifer Gorman by e-mail at gormanj@od.nih.gov to learn about the
sign-up and submission process. Approval to present comments at the COPR meeting
will be given on a first-come, first-served basis.
If you're interested in representing your community on the 2007 NIH Director's
Council please see the application online at http://copr.nih.gov/application.asp
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#263
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:03:17 -0700
From: Mark Fulop <markfulop@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: National nurse?
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Marjorie and others
I grew up in a large family and endured many a bruised elbow banging into my
siblings as we all tried to jockey into the place to be the "Chief Sibling" and
as the third child found myself often fighting loosing battles and at times when
I did end up in front I recognized it is no big deal. Unfortunately this
conversation is reminding me of my childhood. Doctors can't do it better, they
are just bigger bullies with their professional associations.... We all know
that nurses are those brainless ones who just act like know-it-alls.....
When the real fight is about the dismantling of public health. We have seen in
the last few years, the increasing watched the demise of public health. the List
is long and here are a few to start us:
1) drug compnaies underwriting FDA drug trials;
2) immunity from lawsuits given to drug companies & fast food companies
3) eviscerating of a major tobacco industry settlement
4) the promotion of psuedo-science as true science (ala abstainence ed)
5) dismantling of public information strucutres (distorted info on web sites,
research taken off of websites, Eric libraries Gutted, EPA research Libraties
gutted)
6) EPA and OSHA policies and regulations gutted, ignored and reversed
7) advisory panels stacked with pro-industry folks,
8) food labeling laws diluted and national labeling adopted with a no-premption
clause
9) the dispmatling of prevention with money diverted to terroriam prevention.
10) Wholesale elimination of programs and conversion of traditionally
competitive grants to earmarks (ala
FIPSE)
The list could get way longer and more detailed but as long as we focus on
whether the spokesperson is an MD, RN, MPH (with CHES of course)..... we will
lose the battle.
It is time for us siblings to stop fighting and start acting as a family before
it is too late. WE NEED national leadership that truly includes a fair checks
and balance system which we currently don't have right now. Fighting for change
in November is way more important than fighting for a spokesperson.
Funny how this email a year ago would have been seen as grossly liberal and
partisian but today. with 60-70% of people disapproving of the current lack of
accountability in DC it is increasingly a bi-partisan message.
Mark Fulop, MA, MPH
PO Box 13094
Portland, OR 97213
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#264
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:54:13 -0700
From: "William M. London" <wlondon@CDREWU.EDU>
Subject: Re: HEDIR-L Digest - 7 Apr 2006 to 9 Apr 2006 (#2006-80)
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> Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:37:45 -0400
> From: "shanelw@siu.edu" <shanelw@SIU.EDU>
> Subject: Consumer Health Information
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> Hello HEDIR,
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> I am in the process of gathering recent, 2004-2006 resources for
> Consumer Health. I am interested in syllabi for Consumer Health
> Courses or course pack ideas.
> Additionally, if you know of any videos, DVD's, or websites please let
> me know. Thank you for your help. I will post the information that I
> gather to the HEDIR listserve.
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> Shanel Winfield, MA
Shanel Winfield, MA:
One useful resource is Consumer Health Digest (CHD), a free weekly e-mail
newsletter edited by Stephen Barrett, MD that summarizes scientific reports;
legislative developments; enforcement actions; news reports; Web site
evaluations; recommended and nonrecommended books; research tips; and other
information relevant to consumer protection and consumer decision-making.
CHD has more than 11,000 subscribers. (I'm associate editor of CHD; the
hyperlink to information about subscribing and to hyperlinks to back issues
archived on the Web are provided below at the bottom of my signature.)
CHD often refers to articles at Quackwatch.org and the 19 other consumer health
Web sites operated by Dr. Barrett (including Credential Watch, which I co-host).
Dr. Barrett received the 2001 Distinguished Service to Health Education Award
from the American Association for Health Education.
Hyperlinks to a sample course outline and suggested course activities/projects
are available at http://www.chsourcebook.com, the Web site for Consumer Health:
A Guide to Intelligent Decisions, Seventh Edition (soon to be the Web site for
the extensively updated/revised Eighth Edition, which was published in March
2006).
Bill
William M. London, Ed.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of General Studies Interim Director,
Master of Public Health in Urban Public Health Program College of Science and
Health Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
201 Keck Building
1731 E. 120th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90059
Phone: 323-563-4874
Fax: 323-357-3601
wlondon@cdrewu.edu
Urban Public Health M.P.H. Program:
http://www.cdrewu.edu/cosh/public_health/public_health.htm
College of Science and Health: http://www.cdrewu.edu/cosh/index.htm
Dr. London is co-host of Credential Watch (http://www.credentialwatch.org),
associate editor of Consumer Health Digest, a free weekly e-newsletter available
by subscription at http://www.quackwatch.org/00AboutQuackwatch/chd.html, and a
co-author of Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions, Eighth Edition
(http://www.chsourcebook.com)
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