DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Meeting of: Secretary's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for
2010
April 23, 1999, Proceedings
MS. DEERING: As the Secretary and Dr. Satcher said earlier this morning, the conference is January 24-28, 2000. It is going to be at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, which interestingly enough is the same hotel where Healthy People 2000 was launched back in September, 1990. I think there are lots of people in this room who were probably at that event, like I was, and I hope you still have your tee shirts, because they will give you a special gift if you show up with it.
[Laughter.]
We are planning a really bang-up event of both celebration and substance. The celebration will begin on the Monday night. We hope to have entertainment that is a reflection of wonderfully diverse talent across ages and cultures. The substance will be a blend of prevention policy and programs and science, with demonstrations of technology that extends and supports prevention.
The program is going to build during the week. In tab 10 you will see a draft outline-do not open it now-that shows you how we have actually thought through conceptually the way that the program could develop. We fully expect over 1,200 people to show up, representing new partners as well as old friends, from public health and health care, academic and research institutions, employers and technology companies, advocacy organizations, as well as every single one of you and your friends and colleagues in the field.
We are going to have healthy special events and healthy menus so that we not only talk the talk but walk the walk and jog the jog and dance the dance and even eat healthy so that we really do practice what we preach.
We will be broadcasting at least the opening plenary via satellite, and all of the plenaries and perhaps some of the breakout sessions will be broadcast over the Internet. At the conference we are going to be unveiling a brand new Healthy People Web site. We are building on your concept of the CD-ROM, but we will actually have a live interactive document online linked outward to information and resources associated with the individual components of the big book. We will also be unveiling the new Healthfinder that can better support people in the directions that we are trying to help them go, and it is going to be linked to the Healthy People site and to the Surgeon General's site.
There will be a big call for exhibits and poster sessions. I am not even going to tell you how huge it is. There is room for every one of your programs and constituents to come and showcase what they are doing.
We are going to feature again the unique partnerships technology games. The games are sort of hands-on demonstrations of innovative uses of the Web and other interactive technologies that help support prevention. The games will be cosponsored for the third year by the Annenberg School for Communication and the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania under Kathleen Hall Jamison, and this time Annenberg has set aside $5,000 for prize money for the games. So we are very excited about that.
Partnership participation in the steering committee and cosponsorship of the conference is open to all agencies, and we have outside partners in addition to Annenberg. In fact, I had an unsolicited phone call; I will have you know that HCFA was the first one on an unsolicited basis to give me a call yesterday to be volunteering $40,000 for partnerships for next year. So thank you very much, HCFA.
[Applause.]
So, again, please save the dates and help us celebrate not only what we have finished but what we are starting.
DR. SATCHER: Great. Thank you very much, Mary Jo.
Okay, comments, questions?
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