Editor's Message
By Lu Grimm, M.A.Summer 2008
Another summer is in full swing as we anticipate our association’s fast-approaching Annual Education Meeting. See the most recent agenda, along with the registration form elsewhere in the journal.
In the meantime, relax in a hammock under the shadiest tree you can find, knock back with a glass of your favorite icy beverage and savor reading this issue. Once again it is chockfull of a wide variety of environmental health-related topics ranging from concerns about the potential for the emergence of the Chikungunya virus in Florida via mosquito transmission by Jonathan F. Day to a concern for the effect of tritium contamination of groundwater in Florida and its possible risks to public health from Heather D. Skowron.
See FEHA’s stance on climate change and its potential public and environmental health effects in a position paper and resolution, as well as an opposing point of view in a special letter to the editor from David B. Arnold.
Don’t miss a chance to earn a CEU by filling out this issue’s quiz, and check out what your fellow environmental public health professionals are doing in the Central, Gulf Coast, Halifax, and Suwannee districts. Read both the outgoing FEHA President’s Message from Emily Wilson and the incoming FEHA President’s Message from Melinda Collins. Laugh about another installment from our cartoonist, Jeremy Buchanon, and enjoy a book review by Shaun Crawford on The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health.
Next, you can look forward to some articles now being planned for the fall issue, including (among others) “Community and Occupational Health Issues at Florida Construction and Demolition Debris Landfills” by Lynn Wilder (ATSDR), Sam Rivers (Santa Rosa CHD) and Anita Lewis (Escambia CHD?), as well as “Beaches and HABs: Successful Expansion of the Florida Red Tide Reporting System for Protection of Public Health through Community Education and Outreach” by a host of authors including Andrew Reich, the Aquatic Toxins Coordinator for the Florida Department of Health. In addition, we hope to have some words of wisdom from two recent retirees, FEHA members Russell A. Miller and Howard Rosen, with over 35 years of experience each.
Don’t forget to send in any article you’ve written or submit your idea for an article that you want to read about in the journal!
Lu
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