Pop Health Forum Meeting MINUTES Tuesday November 26, 2002

[Stephen Bezruchka]

One of our best attended and lively meetings!

Mission Statement exercise carried out expertly by Amy Hagopian:
we reviewed history of such (from Business to NGO's), presented many
examples, considered criteria for evaluating mission statements, then took
5 "bachelors"  (drafts from PHF members) to choose amongst and we had a
most lively discussion
-Amy will take the ideas expressed and work them into a draft that will be
considered at the next meeting

Recent efforts presenting population health ideas in Summit, a Seattle
public school, were reviewed.
-One of the members, Liz Mogford, will work next quarter on developing a
curriculum and she would like others to help work on this (if interested,
email her at lmogford at u.washington.edu
-other opportunities exist for presenting these ideas to other schools
(email Stephen if interested in working on this) to gain more experience

Population Health poster draft was presented
-there was a feeling by some that it had too much material, and could be
made into a series of posters, with the main message on one, and then
steps to take on another
-focusing on one step, to work for justice was stressed
-pdf file with the current draft (11 by 17 inch format)is attached, and
comments are appreciated.

Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at UW has a possible opportunity
for a student taking an introduction to labor studies course to work with
us to get the word out to organized labor.  Contact Kristina Anderson,
Director 543-7946 (pcls at u.washington.edu) if interested in your working
with a UW student to get the word out to labor.

Flyers on an upcoming event where population health will be featured at
the Providence Campus of Swedish Hospital, Jan 24, 2002 were circulated.

Next meeting is for December 10, 5 pm in H 670.  We will review the
mission statement and discuss action oriented objectives for the next 1-2
years including possibly (from Oct 30 meeting)
-organizing a community speakers bureau
-packaging info for the trade unions
-developing a non-academic web site
-slide show development
-consider signing on to other groups
-consider developing a brochure describing the organization before we get
web site up
-considering tying into Real Change speaker's bureau (have homeless
advocates/homeless come tospeak to us)

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Stephen
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