What Is a Diplomate, and What Does It Do?

• Published in: Journal of environmental health Vol. 78; no. 1; pp. 34 - 35
• Main Author: Zemel, Felix I
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Environmental Health Association 01.07.2015
• Subjects: Academies and Institutes - organization & administration; Atomic absorption analysis; Careers; Certification; Elevation; Environmental health; Environmental Health - organization & administration; Environmental protection; Food safety; Health; Health sciences; Health services; Humans; Leadership; Licensing, certification and accreditation; Medical personnel; Meetings; Profession; Public health; Sanitarians; Sanitary Engineering; Spectroscopy; United States
• ISSN: 0022-0892

In addition to spotting their frequent articles in the Journal, Diplomates can be found throughout the ranks of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps; in leadership positions at NEHA (nearly 2/3 of the NEHA presidents over the past 20 years have been Diplomates of the AAS); various positions within federal agencies (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, Indian Health Service, etc.); holding management roles in public and environmental health departments across the U.S.; and as senior management in environmental healthrelated organizations, like Underwriters Lab- oratories and NSE Diplomates truly are leaders within the sanitarian profession. The academy is a group of leaders in the environmental health sciences whose goal is to continue elevating the environmental health profession through high academic standards and encouragement of the elevation of professional practices and technical knowledge of sanitarians across the country (and throughout the world).