Extra WHTF Meeting: 14 September 2007

Dear Colleagues,

I hope you are all well. I’m writing today to announce that we will be having an extra Women & Health Taskforce Meeting which will be held prior to the Network: TUFH conference in Kampala. The details are:

Friday 14 September 2007
10.00-16.00 (tentative)
Hotel Africana
Kampala, Uganda

All active members of the taskforce are encouraged to attend this meeting. All taskforce members who receive fellowship support from the Taskforce/GHETS will be required to attend this meeting.

The purpose of the meeting will be to allow the taskforce to organize prior to the conference, so that we can have a more directed agenda during the conference itself. Also by holding this meeting prior to the conference for key taskforce members, we can then devote more time during the general, regularly scheduled meeting during the conference to orient possible new members to the taskforce, etc.

The idea for this meeting arose from Taskforce feedback after the Ghent conference. It was felt that the Taskforce needed more time to meet, and an opportunity to organize on the front-end of the conference, otherwise everything is left to the official taskforce meeting, which is usually scheduled on the last day of the conference.

An agenda for the meeting will be developed in the coming months. For the time being, some general objectives for the meeting will likely be the following:

□ Updates on sub-committee activities
□ Discuss conference objectives (what do we want to accomplish during the conference?)
□ Begin setting Taskforce objectives for the coming year
□ Develop an agenda for the official Taskforce Meeting during the conference

If any active members of the taskforce which to suggest agenda items, or if anyone has an questions regarding the meeting, please feel free to email me at marion@ghets.org.

I look forward to seeing everyone in Kampala!

Warm wishes,
Marion