Christopher Morley, chair of the department of public Health and preventive medicine at Upstate Medical University, has been elected to the board of directors of the Association for Schools and Programs of Public Health for a three-year term as a member-at-large. Morley is the first Upstate faculty member to be elected to the ASPPH board. The nine-person board includes representatives from Stony Brook University, the University of California-Davis, Georgia State University, the University of Maryland, and others.
In addition to Upstate, ASPPH represents 146 schools and programs of public health from across the country and globally, and more than 25,000 academic public health members. The mission of the ASPPH is to advance academic public health by mobilizing the collective power of its members to drive excellence and innovation in education, research, and practice.