| Echerd Chosen as APHA Fellow Leslie Echerd, second-year master’s student in the Department of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and research assistant at the Center for Infant and Young Child Feeding and Care, has been chosen as an American Public Health Association (APHA) Maternal and Child Health Section Fellow for 2006-07. She is one of only eight outstanding individuals selected nationwide.
The purpose of the fellows program is to promote leadership in APHA, in Maternal and Child Health and in public health generally. The MCH Section of APHA provides an opportunity for the fellow to take an active part in section activities through attendance at the APHA annual meeting, participation in section committee activities, serving as an assistant to the governing council representatives and coordinating special sessions. Fellows are chosen on the basis of outstanding leadership and scholarship and a commitment to maternal and child health. Echerd is currently conducting focus-group and educational research on breastfeeding knowledge and practices to bring together divergent communities in Raleigh. |
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