American Public Health Association

“Individual members have the right to hold office, to vote, or to serve the association in any capacity. Individual membership classes are as follows: - regular - student - early career professionals - retired - re2 special health worker - student bulk - agency - agency individual member.”

“The governing council consists of : (1) two elected representatives of each section, with additional numbers of elected representatives of each section, and 5 members of the student assembly, as annually endorsed by the executive board; (2) one representative to be designated by each affiliated association; (3) one representative for unaffiliated special interest groups; and (4) members of the executive board. Ex-officio governing council members may also serve, but do not have any voting rights. There shall be an executive board consisting of the president, the president-elect, the immediate past president, the treasurer, speaker of the council, and twelve members to be known as the elective members, elected from among individual constituents of apha for terms of four years each by the governing council. The chairs of the council of affiliates, intersectional council, and student assembly shall serve as members of the executive board ex officio with vote. The chairs of the action board, the education board*, the evidentiary review committee and the executive director shall serve as a member of the executive board ex officio without vote. *per governing council action, the chairs of the action board and education board will no longer serve on the executive board effective november 5, 2026.”

“Management reviews the form 990 and then forwards it to the finance and audit committee to review and approve. The executive board is also provided a link for them to electronically access the return for review prior to the return being filed.”

“The executive board's governance committee annually monitors for compliance with the submission of completed conflict of interest forms, and at other times when needed. The administrative staff retains the documents. A disclosure and subsequent abstention from voting on the matter at issue shall be made a matter of record within the minutes of the appropriate meeting. Once individuals have disclosed a potential conflict of interest, they may participate in the discussion/deliberations of the executive board meeting, but must be recused from the voting.”

“In preparation for apha's annual review of its executive director, the personnel committee provides the executive board members with a copy of their evaluation of the executive director's outlined current year objectives; the executive director's own self-evaluation; the results of a staff survey, if applicable (these are only conducted every few years); and an independent executive compensation analysis. The personnel committee then reviews the executive board's evaluation of the executive director. After the results are compiled, then there is a review of the executive compensation analysis. The compensation vendor is available to answer any questions from the analysis. The analysis uses information about apha such as the type of membership of the association, the association's area of focus, annual gross revenues, the association's location, and the tenure of the executive director in order to arrive at a predicted total compensation amount. Total compensation analysis is defined as base salary, bonus, cash value, deferred compensation, supplemental retirement and pension amounts.”

“Apha makes its bylaws and conflicts of interest policy available to the general public on the association's website. The audited financial statements are available on request.”

“The audit oversight process has remained unchanged from the previous year.”