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Roundtable

Public Health Leaders Roundtable

BACKGROUND

The Campaign for Public Health’s Board of Directors launched the Public Health Leaders Roundtable in September of 2008. The work group’s first meeting was attended by Dr. Julie Gerberding, then Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Roundtable provides a forum where key supporters of the Campaign for Public Health can discuss public policies, federal funding for public health programs and other areas of common interest related to the work and mission of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CPH staff work to provide Roundtable members with opportunities to discuss public health challenges in a small group setting with the CPH Board and fellow members of the health community. The Roundtable has extended invitations to the CDC’s leadership to brief the group on their work. The exchange of ideas at these meetings has been instrumental to all participants.

In addition to providing a common forum to our most invested organizations, the Roundtable also provides a mechanism through which leading supporters of the Campaign for Public Health can make recommendations to the CPH Board regarding the organization’s strategic plan and related goals and tactics. In concert with CPH, Roundtable members are encouraged to generate formal policy statements, make recommendations to public officials, release press statements or endorse legislative proposals impacting national public health programs. Such items passed by the Roundtable without dissension and endorsed by a majority of the CPH Board will be released under the banner of the Public Health Leaders Roundtable. Two such Resolutions are mentioned below.

Roundtable Members

Abbott Laboratories
ALS Association
              American Diabetes Association (Co-Chair)
American Legacy Foundation
American Public Health Association

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

Association of Schools of Public Health
                 GlaxoSmithKline  (Co-Chair) 
National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Directors
Ogilvy Public Relations 

Pfizer, Inc

Pitney Bowes
Research!America

Sanofi Pasteur
SRA International

Individual members include Evan Jones and Laura Gordon of Edelman


                                   2009

SEPTEMBER 2009

On September 10, the Campaign for Public Health held a meeting of its Public Health Leaders Roundtable with special guest Dr. Tom Frieden. 

Dr. Frieden highlighted several of the CDC's focus areas, including: the H1N1 influenza pandemic, organizational improvements within the agency aimed at returning autonomy to the CDC's centers, the need to strengthen surveillance and epidemiology, the importance of the CDC's global health mission and the critical role policy plays in affecting health outcomes.

                         
              Dr. Frieden discusses health reform as Karen
                Goraleski of Research!America looks on.


MARCH 2009

The Public Health Leaders Roundtable convened its first meeting of 2009 on Tuesday, March 31. Invited guest Donald Shriber, Deputy Director for Policy, Legislation and Communications at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began the meeting by discussing the impact recent legislative efforts are having on the agency and the wider health community in Washington.  Mr. Shriber also discussed changes at the agency resulting from the political changes in Washington’s leadership.

After Mr. Shriber’s departure, Roundtable members unanimously approved two resolutions. The first resolution expressed support for the work of six Georgia State Senators who introduced SR 263 – a state resolution calling for greater public health funding from Washington. The second resolution commended Congressman Jim McGovern, Congresswoman Kay Granger and Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard for their work on a letter to appropriators requesting greater funding for the CDC in fiscal year 2010.

During the meeting, Evan Jones, Chairman of the Campaign for Public Health made a presentation to the group on CPH's activities.

The Roundtable also discussed advocacy strategies to support public health funding in the upcoming appropriations bills as well as how to promote the role of public health in the ongoing health reform debate.


Donald Shriber of the CDC addresses the Roundtable

                          2008

SEPTEMBER 2008

The inaugural meeting of the Roundtable was held on Wednesday, September 24, 2008.  The work group’s first meeting was attended by Dr. Julie Gerberding, then Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She and some of her senior staff provided very candid insights on the challenges, opportunities and needs she believed are facing both her agency and the public’s health.

An Agenda from this meeting can be found here. Mr. Jones' opening powerpoint presentation regarding the Campaign's successes and history can be found here.


CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding shares with
the Roundtable the challenges her agency faces.


 
CPH Board Chairman Evan Jones
discusses the work of the Campaign.

For membership details, please contact CPH Executive Director Karl Moeller at (202) 898-9060 or KarlM@FundCDC.org


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