Interactive Web Forum: Tuesday, April 27 Noon to 1:30 p.m.

H1N1 Influenza: Lessons from the Pandemic “Overcoming the Vulnerabilities of a Fragile Public Health” Tuesday, April 27 Noon to 1:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time

The H1N1 influenza pandemic required a quick response from the nation’s public health system. With only six weeks of lead time between identification of the virus and its spread to the United States, a national strategy had to manifest itself at the local level in the form of strong coordination and communication with local institutions/organizations and adaptable policies and practices.

For information on this program please visit: http://www.dialogue4health.org Program presenters include: Skip Skivington, Vice President of Operations, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc; Arthur Reingold, M.D., Professor and Head of Epidemiology, Associate Dean for Research University of California, Berkeley. Matthew Marsom, Director of Public Policy for the Public Health Institute will serve as the moderator.

Dialogue4Health (D4H), a project of the Public Health Institute, is committed to improving America’s health by bringing together public health professionals with the perspectives of business, government and other community interests. Dialogue4Health’s web-centered philosophy creates a unique space for professionals to build a foundation for understanding essential concepts in public health and work towards crafting policies, systems and environments to reduce chronic disease in America.

Via a web-based platform for interaction and discussion, D4H provides a place for professionals to tackle provocative subjects from a multi-sectoral perspective. http://www.phi.org