Happy New Year from ASTPHND!

Greetings!,

On behalf of the ASTPHND leadership, we thank you for your volunteer time, loyalty, and continued passion  for public health nutrition.  Because  of you, ASTPHND's mission to develop leaders in public health nutrition is becoming a reality!  

Amazing accomplishments in 2012...

• Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act to increase fruits and vegetables in school meals - Passed!
• Communications Plan including a Facebook page and key messages for our members - Implemented!
• A Strategic Plan that will lead us into the next five years - Crafted!
• Strategic partnerships with seventeen organizations - And more in the works!
• Role of Public Health Nutritionists in Obesity Prevention - Published!  
• Forty-six new members - and a record membership of 272!

More excitement awaits us in 2013...

• School Nutrition Association partnership to support our Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools campaign.
• Leadership Training Program for our members.
• The ASTPHND Annual Meeting June 9 - 11.
• A new ASTPHND brief on nutrition and infant mortality.  

These efforts are so necessary and important to the work we do in public health nutrition. We cannot accomplish our work without you.  Please contact Cyndi Atterbury if you would like to get involved in ASTPHND's important efforts. 

Again, thank you for your commitment to ASTPHND and more importantly, your commitment to public health nutrition.  We wish you and your family and friends a very happy and healthy 2013!

Your partners in public health nutrition,

Donna McDuffie (MN), Membership Committee Chair

Joyce Dougherty (OR)

Chris Douglas (WY)

Teresa Fair (AL)

Connie Howell (KY)