Garrett Brown
gdbrown@igc.org

HIGXYZ92HIGZYX The APHA Working Group on Trade and Health is sponsoring a wide variety of activities at the Boston conference in which members of our Section should plan to participate. Our Section was a founding member of the Working Group, which is slated to be one of the first of the new “Forums” under the APHA reorganization plan.

The most important meeting is the Working Group business meeting on Sunday, Nov. 5, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Convention Center (Session #247.1 – check program for room number). The meeting will include presentations on activities over the last year, both inside APHA and in the broader world, as well as a discussion of strategies for the coming year.

With the collapse of the World Trade Organization talks – always with the threat they will be resurrected – the fight to defend public health, and occupational health in particular, against the demands of globalizing corporate rule takes on new forms and new urgency. Understanding the winning strategies of the past year and how we must adapt to new circumstances will be the focus of the Working Group meeting. The OHS Section needs to be represented at the Nov. 5 gathering.

Anyone interested in representing the Section should contact Garrett at: gdbrown@igc.org.