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Mental Health Section
This article is about the Mental Health Section of the organization American Public Health Association.

The Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) is a primary professional unit of the Association and conduct activities that promote the mission and fulfill the goals of APHA. The Mental Health Section promotes public health policy and educational programs dedicated to enhancing the mental health of all persons and to improving the quality of health care for the mentally ill. It is designed to allow members with shared interests to come together to develop scientific program content, policy papers in their areas of interest or fields of practice, provide for professional and social networking, career development and mentoring.

Formation	[Year created?]

Headquarters	Washington, D.C.

Membership	1,202

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National Mental Health Section Sponsored Awards
The achievements of mental health leaders are recognized through several nationally recognized awards. These awards are presented during APHA’s annual meeting. The Mental Health section recognizes individuals in three award categories:

– sponsored by the Mental Health, Epidemiology, and Statistics Sections, this award is granted to an outstanding scientist in the area of psychiatric epidemiology.
 * 1) Rema Lapouse Award

Inaugurated by the Mental Health Section in 1990 to remember Carl Taube’s many contributions to mental health policy and research, and to recognize scholars who have made important contributions to the public mental health field. Carl Taube played a major role in creating the field of mental health services and policy research and mental health economics through his work at NIMH.
 * 1) The Carl Taube Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field of Mental Health

In the early 1970s he redesigned and expanded the national reporting program on mental health services at the NIMH National Center for Health Statistics and the Office of Biometry, and used these data to analyze trends in deinstitutionalization and shifts in financing. He designed and implemented the national Inventory of Community Mental Health Centers which became the Inventory of Mental Health Organizations under Ron Manderscheid’s direction, first at NIMH and then at SAMHSA.

He died in 1989 at the age of 50 while waiting for a liver transplant. At the time, he was Professor of Mental Hygiene at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, a position he moved on to after retiring a year or two earlier from the NIMH.

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