TY - JOUR T1 - Newsmakers JF - The Nation's Health JO - Nations Health SP - E1 LP - E1 VL - 47 IS - 1 AU - Sabrina Halberg Y1 - 2017/02/01 UR - http://www.thenationshealth.org/content/47/1/E1.abstract N2 - APHA members Abdulrahman El-Sayed, MD, DPhil; Jonathan Fielding, MD, MPH, MBA, MA; Susan Goekler, PhD, MCHES; Cynthia Gomez, PhD; Paul Halverson, DrPH, MHSA, FACHE; Mary Pittman, DrPH; and Therese Richmond, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, were appointed in November to the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2030. Fielding serves as a distinguished professor of health policy and management and of pediatrics at the Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California-Los Angeles. El-Sayed serves as executive director and health officer of the Detroit Health Department. Goekler is emeritus CEO at the American School Health Association. Gomez is director at the Health Equity Institute. Halverson is the founding dean and professor of Indiana University’s Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. Pittman is president and CEO at the Public Health Institute. Richmond is the Andrea B. Laporte professor of nursing and associate dean for research and innovation at the University of Pennsylvania. The advisory committee will provide recommendations on Healthy People 2030, which will set new health objectives for the nation. ER -