-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Preparing for Pandemic Bird Flu - Mar 21 - NYC Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit sent by Jonathan Bennett (NYCOSH) - Mar 17, 2006 Panel Discussion on Preparing for Pandemic Flu Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 2:00 to 4:30 pm, Manhattan Predictions of a worldwide influenza outbreak are in the news every day. Thankyou HowardIn Memory of the loveually Mutilated Child Thank You, Howard Stern Howard Stern is the first -- and still the only... What is avian flu, what is pandemic flu, and why is there so much concern? If pandemic flu becomes a reality, what steps need to be taken to best protect the public, and to protect and prepare the workers who will be on the front lines during this public health emergency? Moderated by Lee Clarke, Director, Safety and Health Department, District Council 37, AFSCME Panelists: Joseph R. Masci, MD, Director of Medicine, Elmhurst Hospital, and Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Debra E. Berg, MD, Medical Director, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program, Bureau of Communicable Disease Thomas J. Lowe, MPH, COHN-S, COHST, Safety and Health Representative, New York State Nurses buttociation Tuesday, March 21, 2:00 to 4:30 pm, Manhattan at 1199-SEIU, 330 West 42nd Street, 33rd Floor (between 8th & 9th Avenues) Handicap accessible. Subways A,C,E,N,Q,R,W,1,2,3 to 42nd Street. 7 to 7th Avenue Buses 10,11,16,20,27,104 to 42nd Street. 42 to 9th Avenue For more information call NYCOSH at (212) 227-6440, ext. 10. Sponsored by the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health Training funded by the New York State Department of Labor, OSH T&E Program, Contract #C011621. Jonathan Bennett, Public Affairs Director, New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health 116 John Street, Suite 604 New York NY 100038 Tel: 212-227-6440 ext. 14 Fax: 212-227-9854 Subscribe to our free biweekly Update on Safety and Health by sending an NYCOSH is a non-profit provider of occupational safety and health training, advocacy and information (including technical buttistance and industrial hygiene consultation) to workers and unions throughout the New York metropolitan area. Our membership consists of more than 250 union organizations and 400 individuals: union members, health and safety activists, injured workers, healthcare workers, attorneys, public health advocates, environmentalists and concerned citizens. We welcome contributions of any amount to support our work, which can be made by the "Donate Now" logo. Contributions to the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, Inc. (NYCOSH) are tax deductible as provided by law. A copy of NYCOSH's last annual report may be obtained from us or from the office of the Attorney General, State of New York, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271. NYCOSH is a union shop. Its staff is represented by the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied-Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW) Local 4-149. * ================================================================ NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us ================================================================ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU-Linux) iD8DBQFEGzb3iz2i76ou9wQRAmfjAJ9hPNQAbL8s3M8SD+bJH8LY260gswCglbGm gaFG9NaQsUEiO8yJVsiM3WE= =gWXH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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