Scholarships

Congratulations to the 2011 Scholarship Recipients for the Physical Activity and Public Health Course

Physical Activity and Public Health Practitioners’ Course on Community Interventions
September 15-21, 2011
The Sea Pines Resort in Hilton Head, South Carolina

The 2011 Anne Seeley Scholarship is awarded to the following recipients:

  • Chris Danley – Transportation Planner, Vitruvian Planning
  • Barbara McCahan – Director, Center for Active Living and Healthy Communities, Plymouth State University

The 2011 Public Health / Physical Activity Practitioner Scholarship is awarded to the following recipients:

  • Monica Barnett – PA Coordinator, Georgia Dept of Community Health
  • Clarissa Christensen – Community Health Educator, State of Nebraska Health and Human Services
  • Beth Davis – PA Coordinator, South Dakota Dept of Health
  • Karol Fink – Program Manager, State of Alaska
  • Julie Garcia – PA and Wellness Coordinator, Arizona Dept of Health Services
  • Tamara Lewis – Obesity Prevention Coordinator, Texas Dept of State Health Services
  • Anthony Randles – PA/Nutrition Program Manager, Kansas Bureau of Public Health

National Society of Physical Activity Practitioners in Public Health Scholarships 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 National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (DNPAO) and the NSPAPPH state physical activity contacts.

This year’s funding comes from the NSPAPPH through its contract with NACDD is for state health department physical activity practitioners to attend the 2011 Physical Activity and Public Health Course: Practitioners’ Course on Community Interventions (PAPH).  The PAPH Course is sponsored by University of South Carolina and CDC and is entering its 17th year of successful training for researchers and public health practitioners.

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 Anne Seeley Scholarship 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 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.