Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury, professor of population and family health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, has been elected chair of the Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health (AAAH). AAAH is a network of 17 countries trying to improve the HRH situation in their countries. Dr. Chowdhury took over as new chair at the AAAH biennial conference held in Colombo, Sri Lanka last week.