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The American Public Health Association (APHA) is a Washington, D.C.–based professional membership and advocacy organization for public health professionals in the United States. APHA is the largest professional organization of public health professionals in the United States and host the largest gathering of public health professionals in the ...
APHA color, also referred to as the Hazen scale, and more appropriately as the Platinum Cobalt(Pt/Co) scale, [1] is a color standard named for the American Public Health Association and defined by ASTM D1209. [2] It was originally intended to describe the color of waste water, but its usage has expanded to include other industrial applications ...
Helen Rodríguez Trías [note 1] (July 7, 1929 – December 27, 2001) was an American pediatrician, educator and women's rights activist. She was the first Latina president of the American Public Health Association (APHA), a founding member of the Women's Caucus of the APHA, and a recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal. She is credited ...
Georges C. Benjamin (born September 28, 1952) is an American public health official who has served as Executive Director of the American Public Health Association since 2002, and previously as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in the Cabinet of Governor Parris Glendening from 1999 to 2002.
American Public Health Association v. Butz (APHA v. Butz), 511 F.2d 331 (D.C. Cir. 1974) [1] was a United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit case argued on January 22, 1974, and decided on December 19, 1974.
Addressing the current coronavirus crisis holistically, the APHA argued, will require the abolition of incarceration in the United States. Prisons are a public health crisis, the American Public ...
The acronym APHA may refer to: American Paint Horse Association, a horse breed registry; American Pharmacists Association (APhA) American Public Health Association. APHA color, a color standard named for the American Public Health Association; Animal and Plant Health Agency, an executive agency of DEFRA, UK; Apha, a genus of moths in the family ...
Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, pointed to current outbreaks of bird flu, measles, pertussis (whooping cough), and food-borne illnesses such as ...