Title: IH SECTION COMMITTEE ON TRADE AND HEALTH

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Section/SPIG: International Health

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Section Chair Joe Valadez appointed a committee comprising Logan Brenzel, Mary Anne Mercer, Rick Yoder, Michelle Forzley, and Marty Makinen to serve APHA as a whole and the IH Section membership to provide information to educate all interested about trade and health issues and debates (there is a written mandate that Marty Makinen can provide on request —<marty_Makinen@abtassoc.com>). The committee is meeting by telephone periodically. The committee is intended to be a small working group that welcomes and encourages input and participation from others but is kept small to try to ensure that it can really work.

The committee's first set of activities is to produce a set of fact sheets or briefs on trade and health issues that are to be distributed at the trade and health sessions at the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia and posted on the IH Section Web site. The committee has exchanged information that several of its members had generated in previous efforts as a basis for deciding what initial set of topics to cover in the fact sheets/briefs. The committee met again by telephone on Sept. 29 to discuss nominated topics and begin the work on producing them.

--Marty Makinen, Director Partners for Health Reform plus, Abt Associates Inc., tel. (301) 913-0689, E-mail: marty_makinen@abtassoc.com