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Washington, DC.
FIU Stempel School of Public Health graduate student and alumni ; team selected for national APHA program.
Mirine Dye, FIU graduate student in public health ( health promotion/disease prevention) and SSPH Alumni Anamarie Garces deMarcilla , MPH ( epidemiology) put together a State team with Lena Camperlengo, MPH ( DrPh student, FAMU, Tallahassee) , Lucille Stringer, RN ( MPH student USF, Tampa) and Arianna Nesbitt, MSPA, Key West to focus on disaster preparedness strategies for the maternal and child health population. The team lead by Dye was chosen as one of only three APHA teams.
Open to all states, the APHA Maternal and Child Health Leadership Institute is sponsored through funding from the Colgate-Palmolive Company. The Institute will help build capacity within each state, nationally, to advance the Healthy People 2010 objectives. The American Public Health Association believes that excellence in public health practice and public programming in our states is directly related to the level of leadership provided by state leaders.
In previous years the Maternal and Child Health Institute focused on maternal and child health issues domestically. However, this year APHA sought applicants working on international maternal and child health but based in the United States.
Teams from Ethiopia, Florida and New Mexico were selected to participate.
CLICK HERE to read The Nation's Health article on the MCH Institute orientation held at APHA's Annual Meeting in Washington,DC.
CLICK HERE to read more about the application process.
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