The Society for Applied Anthropolgy has invited cognate professional associations to join as co-sponsors in the Annual Meeting. Those groups who have accepted the invitation are now working actively with the Program Chair on the content of the sessions. The groups include:

Political Ecology Society (PESO). The Political Ecology Society has as its object the promotion of interdisciplinary scientific investigation of the political and economic principles controlling the relations of human beings to one another and to the environment. As part of its efforts to meet these goals, PESO supports the publication of the Journal of Political Ecology, a peer reviewed electronic journal that publishes articles and reviews in English, French, and Spanish. As well as the PESO Annual Meeting, the society organizes sessions at professional meetings, and sponsors an electronic public forum on its Internet site.

Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA). The first chapter of SLACA was founded by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in 1969 to advance the study of Latin American anthropology. In 2005, the Society's membership offically approved the adoption of "Caribbean" to the Society's name to reflect the connections between the Latin American and Caribbean regions. SLACA provides a forum for discussion of current research, scholarly trends, and human rights concerns, as well as a space for interchange among scholars from and who work in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA). The Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA), which has been a co-sponsor of the SfAA meetings about every two years since the 1997 Seattle Meetings, joins us again this year as a co-sponsor. The SMA of the American Anthropological Association was founded in 1971 to promote the study of anthropological aspects of health, illness, health care, and related topics and to encourage communication and utilization of the results obtained from such studies.  It is currently the largest international scholarly organization devoted to all aspects of medical anthropology.  The SMA currently has approximately 1,400 members (many of whom are also members of the SfAA), and publishes the quarterly international journal of record in the field, the Medical Anthropology Quarterly.