{"id":5332,"date":"2019-10-07T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T14:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2019-10-07T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T14:35:10","slug":"dr-williams-and-belmont-students-elected-to-tpha-leadership-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2019\/10\/07\/dr-williams-and-belmont-students-elected-to-tpha-leadership-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Williams and Belmont Students Elected to TPHA Leadership Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-content\">\n<div class=\"td-featured-image-rec\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a class=\"td-modal-image\" href=\"https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dr.-Christian-Williams.jpg\" data-caption=\"Dr. Christian Williams\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"entry-thumb alignright\" title=\"Dr. Christian Williams\" src=\"https:\/\/722694.smushcdn.com\/1292217\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dr.-Christian-Williams.jpg?size=696x1033&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1\" sizes=\"auto, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) 1392px, (min-resolution: 192dpi) 1392px, 696px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dr.-Christian-Williams.jpg 696w, https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dr.-Christian-Williams.jpg 1392w\" alt=\"Christian Williams Head Shot\" width=\"119\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dr. Christian Williams, director of Belmont\u2019s public health program, was chosen as chair for the Program Committee and chair of the Public Health Academics Section for the Tennessee Public Health Association (TPHA), one of the nation\u2019s largest affiliates of the American Public Health Association (APHA).<\/p>\n<p>Two Belmont public health majors were also appointed to leadership positions by their peers. Jaylen Palmer was selected as co-chair of the Student Section and Lillian Adamson was chosen as the Middle Tennessee representative for the Student Section.<\/p>\n<p>TPHA is the state\u2019s official professional organization for those engaged or interested in public health and is endorsed by the administration of the Tennessee Department of Health. Through TPHA, professionals and students who represent diverse service areas have opportunities to meet and share ideas in an effort to maintain high standards of quality in all aspects of public health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Christian Williams, director of Belmont\u2019s public health program, was chosen as chair for the Program Committee and chair of the Public Health Academics Section for the Tennessee Public Health Association (TPHA), one of the nation\u2019s largest affiliates of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2019\/10\/07\/dr-williams-and-belmont-students-elected-to-tpha-leadership-positions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chs","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5333,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}