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April 2007, Vol 97, No. Supplement_1 | American Journal of Public Health S12-S14
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.109405

EDITORIAL

Prepared to Serve Public Health

Neil E. Hann, MPH, CHES, Mary E. Northridge, PhD, MPH, Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP and Hector Balcazar, PhD

Neil E. Hann is with the Community Development Service, Oklahoma State Department of Health, Oklahoma City. Mary E. Northridge is with the American Journal of Public Health, Washington, DC, and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY. Georges C. Benjamin is with the American Public Health Association, Washington, DC. Hector Balcazar is with the School of Public Health, University of Texas, El Paso, Tex.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Neil E. Hann, Community Development Service, Oklahoma State Department of Health, 1000 NE 10th St, Oklahoma City, OK 73117-1299 (e-mail: neil@health.ok.gov).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 
The idea for the first electronic-only supplement of the Journal devoted to public health preparedness was conceived on Saturday, December 10, 2005, in Room 102A of the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pa. The joint editors and editorial board meeting for the Journal was originally scheduled to be held on Saturday, November 5, 2005, in Hilton Grand Salon 10 of the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, La. But Hurricane Katrina changed the venue for the 133rd Annual Meeting and Exposition of the American Public Health Association, as well as public health practice priorities for the entire nation.

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   THE FOUNDATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH
 

   JOURNAL’S COMMITMENT TO PREPAREDNESS
 

   INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO INTRACTABLE PROBLEMS
 

   AMASSING CREDIBLE ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
 

   PREPARED FOR THE FUTURE?
 





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