Who We Are

The CHPPD Student Committee is a new standing committee of the Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section, whose purpose is to represent the voice and experience of student members to CHPPD Section leadership, to represent the CHPPD Section to the Student Assembly, and to serve as a mechanism for involving student members in CHPPD committees and leadership roles.

What We Do

Our committee meets 4-5 times annually via teleconference, and communicates mostly via email. Although our role is constantly evolving with member input, so far our main projects and functions have been to:

• Reach out to and maintain contact with new and current student members of CHPPD;
• Promote available CHPPD leadership opportunities and committee involvement to students and solicit interest; 
• Advertise CHPPD abstract submission awards, social events, and other Section opportunities;
• Contribute to the regular Student Perspective article in the CHPPD quarterly newsletter;
• Recruit the help of students based near Annual Meeting sites to help with local support and logistics;
• Work in close collaboration with the Chairs of the Membership, Program, and Local Arrangements Committees of CHPPD; and
• Contribute to any CHPPD activities involving students, such as: student awards, travel scholarships to annual meeting, mentorship programs, social events, and member recruitment.

How to Get More Involved

JOIN the CHPPD Student List-serve! 

Click here to sign up: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/CHPPDstudents/

Don’t worry, we won’t clog up your inbox with emails! We’ll just pass along announcements regarding funding, leadership, action, and other opportunities available to students in our section. It’s nice to have a community within the huge organization that is APHA, and so we are working hard to make sure the student members of CHPPD feel they are a part of one.

If you haven’t already joined the CHPPD Student Committee please email the Chair, Ashley Wennerstrom, at ashwen@email.arizona.edu.

INSIDE APHA:  A CHPPD Student Perspective, a document developed by students of CHPPD, for students of CHPPD. It’s a user-friendly look into APHA, CHPPD, and the Student Assembly – only what you really need to know to get acquainted with what each has to offer you, and how you can become more involved: Click here to download a PDF copy