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---On December 13, 2005, during its annual meeting in Philadelphia, the American Public Health Association (APHA) unanimously passed a late-breaking resolution supporting Alaska Dental Health Aides and Therapists and Other Innovative Programs, in response to the unmet oral health needs in Alaska and other underserved areas. The full text of the resolution can be found at http://www.APHA-OH.org <http://www.APHA-OH.org> . If you would like to gain access to it before it appears on the Oral Health Section web site, contact Amos Deinard (deina001@umn.edu <mailto:deina001@umn.edu> ) for the document. The late-breaking policy will be in effect for one year and will be reconsidered to become permanent policy at next year's annual meeting in Boston, November 4-8, 2006, the theme of which will be "Public Health and Human Rights".
Call For Abstracts---Please note that abstracts for the 2006 APHA annual meeting must be submitted by February 24, 2006. Go to the APHA website <http://www.apha.org/ <http://www.apha.org/> > and click on "annual meeting" for additional information about abstract submissions. If you have questions about abstract submission or the program, please contact Oscar Arevalo (oralchair05@yahoo.com <mailto:oralchair05@yahoo.com> ).
The Oral Health Section invites the submission of abstracts for individual paper presentations, poster sessions, roundtable discussions, or invited panels for the 2006 Annual Meeting.
Suggested areas of interest include:
* Effective Preventive Programs
* Innovative Delivery and Financing Mechanisms
* Oral Cancer
* Oral Health Disparities
* Oral Health Literacy
* Oral Health and Human Rights
* Oral Health Policy
* Special Needs Populations
* Workforce Issues
Joint sessions and sessions co-sponsored with other sections, special interest groups, and caucuses are encouraged. Ideas for invited sessions and panels are also invited. Abstracts will be selected through a rated review process according to significance, timeliness, and overall quality.
To Join APHA---All of you who are not currently APHA members are invited to join the organization and become active participants in the Oral Health Section. Joining is easy; merely go the APHA's web-site <http://www.apha.org/ <http://www.apha.org/> and click on "join/renew". Amos Deinard, the Section’s membership chair, is very interested in seeing membership in the APHA Oral Health Section increase in number and in level of participation. If you have membership questions, please contact Amos at (deina001@umn.edu <mailto:deina001@umn.edu> ).
For further information about APHA Oral Health Section, contact:
Dyan Campbell, Chair (dyanc@pronetisp.net <mailto:dyanc@pronetisp.net> ),
Howard Pollick, Chair-elect (howard.pollick@ucsf.edu <mailto:howard.pollick@ucsf.edu> ),
Jane Steffensen, Immediate Past Chair (steffensen@uthscsa.edu <mailto:steffensen@uthscsa.edu> ) or
Kathy Lituri, Secretary (lituri@bu.edu <mailto:lituri@bu.edu> ).
The Oral Health Section website is at http://www.APHA-OH.org <http://www.APHA-OH.org>
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