We are making excellent progress in planning our Building Health Promotion into the National Agenda effort. We have refined our advocacy strategy, implemented our committee structure, and begun to get to know the staff in a number of Congressional offices. We are now ready to shift to the action stage.
Details are below.
The purpose of this meeting was to provide an opportunity for committee members to get to know each other, and formally transfer responsibility for the various tasks to the committee chairs and their committees . Approximately 20 people attended. A number of important developments came out of this meeting and are described below. Governance Process . We have developed a decision process which recognizes the dynamic nature of our effort and the schedule conflicts of participating members, but also the need to insure representation of multiple perspectives in decisions.