Population Health Forum meeting Tuesday Jan 15, Agenda, F348

[Stephen Bezruchka]

To those interesting in what makes a population healthy, and the poor
health of the US compared to other countries:

At the well-attended last meeting last year, we decided to organize into
work groups  Please come Tuesday at 5 pm, NEW MEETING ROOM:  F 348, in the
F wing, rather than the former meeting room, where a faculty meeting may
run over in to our time slot.  Please see URL below for map indicating
meeting site, which is in the Health Sciences Center Complex at the
University of Washington, 1959 N.E. Pacific St. Seattle.

 Our efforts in the near future are to create broader awareness in the
local area of the strong links between structural factors such as who gets
what share of the economic pie, and our health.  People are going to need
a hopper car load of sugar to help the structural medicine go down, but it
will sure be worth it!

 The first efforts should be to help us understand the situation better,
and internationally reknown experts will be at UW this spring to help.
These include
-Lisa Berkman, editor of the seminal book:  Social Epidemiology, on March
4
-Ichiro Kawachi, co-editor with Lisa of the above book, April 11, 12
-Nancy Kreiger, social activist and force behind the Spirit of 1848 List
Serve and public health movement, as the Soule Lecturer, April 29

Work efforts could include
-publicizing their lectures through the University and more broadly
-getting media coverage for their ideas
	 local newspapers
	radio and  others
-writing and speaking on population health to various audiences
- planning a broad community meeting on population health to consider how
poorly we do compared to other countries, and reasons why

COME, BRING YOUR ENERGY AND IDEAS!

Map at:  http://depts.washington.edu/hsnews/graphics/map.jpg

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