Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Message from the President: Helping with Health Emergency

Hello,

Today I want to talk about the health emergency that is gripping the world

Last weekend I was on International President duty in Vancouver. I love the power of virtual meetings and social media to bring people together, share information and get the job done. The International Board are a team of committed practitioners. The emerging swine flu emergency had us cut the meeting short.

At times like this our attention turns to looking after the people we love, the people in our networks and communities. IAP2 is no different. We will be keeping a careful watch on developments, in terms of our own events program and change any plans to make sure we keep you safe. We will keep a daily watch on the advice from health officials on how best to act.

I know that you will want to help in this situation.

Over the last few months we have been working with Peter Sandman a world leading expert in outrage management, on development of a new international program. Peter is a leading communication advisor to the Centre for Disease Control and the WHO. This sounds like and advertisement, it’s not.

I want to direct you to advice from Peter about communication in a pandemic. The link is: http://www.psandman.com/col/panflu4-1.htm. if you want to help it is a great place to start. We will be loading links to other resources that will help you help.

For the moment take care. We are thinking you and will help in any way we can.

Kind Regards


Anne Pattillo

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