Welcome to the website of the American Public Health Association's Oral Health Section. The American Public Health Association (APHA) is the oldest and largest organization of public health professionals in the world, representing more than 27,000 members from over 50 occupations of public health. We are one of the 24 Sections that APHA members can choose to join. The Oral Health Section's members seek to promote oral health to a larger, multidisciplinary audience, partner with other human service providers, integrate oral health with overall health, have input into environmental and health care delivery issues, and disseminate research findings to the largest possible audience.
It is important for members of the Oral Health community to support the APHA Oral Health Section. The Oral Health Section has two representatives on the APHA Governing Council, the primary mechanism whereby the relatively small Section has a voice in this large, multidisciplinary organization and the ability to influence its policy development. Through the APHA governing process, the Oral Health Section can submit its own resolutions and have input into other relevant resolutions. The APHA staff and lobbyists work hard to promote APHA resolutions into state and national policies and action.
______________________________________________Section makes submission on competencies - A submission on competencies for advanced dental hygiene practitioners from the APHA Oral Health Section features in The Nation’s Health, Dec 2007 - Jan 2008 edition, page 2. APHA members can view this in the latest Nation’s Health by signing in at http://www.apha.org/publications/tnh/current/Dec07Jan08/ or it can be read at the dentalofficemag.com web site here.
______________________________________________New AJPH Editor - Section member Robert J. Weyant, MS, DMD, DrPH, has been named editor for the Journal of Public Health Dentistry, the premier oral public health journal published by the American Association of Public Health Dentistry. He assumed his duties in January 2008.
______________________________________________2007 Annual Meeting Pictures - There are some pictures of section activities here.
______________________________________________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; just go the APHA's web-site http://www.apha.org and click on "Join/Renew". The Section leadership are 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 Section Chair Howard Pollick.
Find out more about the APHA Oral Health Section by checking out the links, or contact one of the Section Leadership.
