The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and the Keystone Center has been holding a series of public meetings in four cities in the US to get input regarding the practicality of public health measures that might be used during an outbreak of pandemic flu.
Here’s the site about those meetings: http://www.keystone.org/Public_Policy/pandemic_control.html
Several of us at CurEvents were disappointed that attending those meetings wasn’t logistically possible for us. So as an experiment, this Sunday 11/5 we’re going to have a chat session in the CE chatroom at 7 pm Pacific time (10 Eastern) trying to adhere to the meeting format and using the meeting scenario and questions. If the experiment is successful (that is, if people show up) then I’ll be emailing the chat log to a contact at Keystone.
This is an opportunity to possibly have some input into US health policy decisions, and also to test the idea of using the internet for public health to get input from the public. You don’t have to live in the US to participate.
The pertinent threads at CE are:
http://www.curevents.com/vb/showthread.php?t=61130 and http://www.curevents.com/vb/showthread.php?t=62087
You have to be a CE member to use the chat feature, but there is no charge for membership and no spam comes of it.
I’ll be in the chat room tonight (11/3) at 7 pm PST to help anyone who is unfamiliar with the chat feature at CE, so that using the feature is not an issue the night of the discussion.
Mac users—I find that the chatroom doesn’t talk well to my aging version of Safari, suggest using IE or another non-safari browser if you have any problems.
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This event has been cancelled because I lost access to the chat room. I will try to arrange a different way for people who cannot go to these conferences in ‘realspace’ to participate in the data gathering online.
you lost access because you were banned. rofl