Scholarships are available for the PAPH Practitoner's Course.  Please read below for more information

Anne Seeley Scholarship

The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors, the University of South Carolina Prevention Research Center, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are pleased to announce the availability of the Anne Seeley Scholarship, which will enable a person outside the field of public health to attend the annual Physical Activity and Public Health Practitioners' Course on Community Interventions. The course will be held September 17-23, 2009 at The Sea Pines Conference Resort in Hilton Head, SC.

The scholarship will cover costs of attending the course: registration (which includes meals and lodging) and travel to and from the course location. The scholarship was established to honor the memory of Anne Seeley, who passed away after a difficult battle with cancer. Anne was the first Director of Education for CPRS. Anne was a true pioneer in the area of active living through her efforts coordinating Active Community Environments projects for the California Center for Physical Activity within the California Department of Health Services. She was relentless in her efforts to increase public health's involvement in national and state transportation, land use, trail building, and park and recreation priorities. Under Anne's vision and leadership, California Walks, the Healthy Transportation Network, California Safe Routes to School, and California Walk to School Headquarters were established and continue to flourish today. Her simple dream was to get more people, more active, more often.

To be eligible for the scholarship, applicants must work in transportation, land use planning, parks and recreation, or other non-public health fields. The scholarship selection process is integrated into the course application process - only formal applicants for the course will be considered for the scholarship. Those who wish to be considered for the scholarship must clearly indicate this in their application. Interested applicants should go to http://prevention.sph.sc.edu/seapines/index.htm for course information and instructions on how to apply. Applications are due by May 15, 2009.

  National Society of Physical Activity Practitioners in Public Health Scholarships Available for Conferences, Trainings, and Seminars

The National Society of Physical Activity Practitioners in Public Health (NSPAPPH) has been established to build the capacity of state health departments to address physical inactivity as a risk factor for chronic disease and other public health issues such as injury, mental health and substance abuse.  It will serve as a communications forum that links public health physical activity practitioner to state of the art knowledge and evidence-based interventions.  NSPAPPH is part of the Physical Activity Collaborative (PAC), which is made up of the Directors of Health Promotion & Education, the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity (CDC), and the NSPAPPH state physical activity contacts.

Funding is available through PAC to fund two state health department physical activity practitioners to attend the 2009 Physical Activity and Public Health Course: Practitioners’ Course on Community Interventions (PAPH).  The PAPH Course will be held September 17-23, 2009 at The Sea Pines Conference Resort in Hilton Head, SC.  The PAPH Course is sponsored by University of South Carolina and CDC and is entering its 15^th year of successful training for researchers and public health practitioners.

To be eligible for the scholarship, applicants must work for a state health department as a physical activity practitioner.  The scholarship selection process is integrated into the course application process - only formal applicants for the course will be considered for the scholarship. Those who wish to be considered for the scholarship must clearly indicate this in their application.  Interested applicants for the course should go to http://prevention.sph.sc.edu/seapines/index.htm for course information and instructions on how to apply. Applications for the course are due by May 15, 2009.