Keeping the momentum

The meeting yesterday was incredibly successful—what a collaborative effort! Each of the co-conveners thank you for all you brought to the meeting both on-site and online. 

Now, we want to we can keep the momentum going! We have created a listserv for meeting attendees to communicate about health reform in the future. If you were unable to attend the on-site meeting but would like to be included in the listserv, simply send an email to acornell@geneticalliance.org. 

We will use the following process to follow up with the energy from the meeting:

1. Determine common principles based on the principles identified by each small group discussion.
2. Compile all text from the meeting; including blog entries, comments, Twitter postings, and group transcripts. (All of this information will be completed by Monday, June 22, 2009).
3. Explain common principles by providing real-life examples as given in the text from the meeting. We will send this information to all meeting participants on the afternoon of Monday, June 22, 2009 and allow a few days for comments and revision of the principles.
4. Revise the principles based on the comments.
5. Send the principles out widely for organizational sign on (with about 1 week for turnaround).
6. Send the principles to policy makers and to the presidential administration.

If you are willing to serve on a work group dedicated to the above tasks, please contact acornell@geneticalliance.org. 

Continue to share your thoughts and ideas here as we move forward together!