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13th Alcohol Policy
Conference |
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Friday - Sunday, March 14 - 16, 2003 |
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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13th Alcohol Policy
Conference |
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Friday - Sunday, March 14 - 16, 2003 |
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Overview | Advisors | Scholarships |
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Agenda Call for Proposals Plenary Speakers |
Accommodations | Exhibitors |
| Travel | Boston and New England | |
| Registration | Intranet | |
ALCOHOL POLICY 13: ALCOHOL AND YOUTH
Advisory conference call, Wednesday, June 6, 2001, 2:00 – 2:53 p.m. ET
1. Advisors in attendance. Marilyn Aguirre Molina, Columbia University; Gail Boyd, NIAAA; Frank Canizales, Indian Health Service; Traci Toomey, University of Minnesota; and Valerie Gumpf, NHTSA. Staff: Tom Colthurst
2. Minutes of previous meeting. No one had any amendment to the April 4 minutes, but two advisors indicated non-receipt and asked Tom to forward (Gayle and Frank; and Tom has now done so).
3. Review planning timeline. Tom highlighted the planning schedule, i.e., start of website in June; confirmation of keynote speakers by August; early print publicity in September (with call for presentation proposals with submission prior to Thanksgiving); selection of concurrent presentations in December and January; and subsequent publicity with full program by February.
4. Advisors identification on website and in publicity materials. Members endorsed the idea of acknowledging their role via a roster with email connectivity on the website. (Draft roster of advisors attached. Please submit any updates to Tom Colthurst at tcolthurst@ucsd.edu.)
5. Budget. Valerie and Gail asked about status of conference budget, indicating that their agencies would like to see what’s proposed as they consider financial participation. Tom noted that Michael and he were preparing a budget presentation for use with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and others and would have available by the end of this month. A big allocation will be for scholarships. Tom also said that Michael and he were pursuing possible involvement by the Massachusetts single state agency (Deborah Klein Walker, acting director, Bureau of Substance Abuse Services, Massachusetts Department of Health Services) and had hopes of enlisting support from the six state New England region with its long-time record of educational cooperation.
6. Need/resources for commissioned papers. Tom outlined uneven history of asking keynote speakers to author papers as basis for their presentations with subsequent publication in a government monograph. Members were receptive to the idea of increasing the knowledge base as a conference dividend, but urged prior negotiation with a peer-reviewed journal for publication as a far more attractive proposition than a government monograph. Precedents cited include NIAAA’s college drinking subcommittee contributing 20 papers for a special issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Marilyn said that the Journal of Public Health Policy has had an interest in alcohol policy and that its editor, Milton Terris, might be approached.
7. Review keynote possibilities. Tom encouraged members to think about additional keynoters (beyond those identified during April conference call). He noted that next conference call would have as prime focus identification of nominees to receive invitations. Later this month, we will solicit specific nominations and rationales from members, then aggregate and circulate prior to the next conference call.
8. Scholarship assistance. Tom and Marilyn reviewed the tradition of providing for financial assistance to make the conference available to those not otherwise able to participate. We will seek underwriting from cosponsors and anticipate that New England state authorities, especially, will see this opportunity as worthy of scholarship support. We will consult further with members regarding criteria, application, and selection processes.
9. Update on dates/location. Traci pointed out that Research Society on Alcoholism (San Francisco, June 29 – July 2, 2002) and Society for Prevention Research (Seattle, May 30 – June 1, 2002) typically met in June. Members agreed that conflict best avoided and that some decent interval prevail.
10. Broadening the base. Frank and Marilyn encouraged recruitment of SAMHSA into the planning process. We agreed to start with acting administrator Joe Autry (per Marilyn, he is very much involved in a national governors’ initiative to reduce underage access to alcohol). Frank pointed out that SAMHSA funds youth demonstration projects, recognizes promising practices, and administers state ADM (Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health) block grants. He reminded that Wes Clark, CSAT director, also very committed and superior public speaker. Marilyn acknowledged past commitments from CSAP. Frank and Marilyn agreed to help with an overture to administrator Autry. Tom welcomed nomination of additional advisors. (Per April minutes, we also are inviting George Hacker, CSPI.)
11. Communication with advisors. Tom raised alternative forms of communication, e.g., listserv or webboard (‘bulletin board’ that would archive message threads). Traci and Frank recommended against reliance on a listserv as exclusive vehicle because of email glut. Occasional email via listserv tolerable, but please indicate ‘AP13’ in subject line for more immediate recognition. Tom also promised an intranet ‘compendium of documents’ for quick reference, to include past conference call notes, drafts for review and comment (in lieu of email attachments), and various conference documents. Consensus was to continue with periodic conference calls, augmented by compendium and judicious use of listserv.
12. Next conference call. Those on today’s call were agreeable to either Thursday, August 2 or Friday, August 3, perhaps again at 2:00 – 2:45 p.m. The option, as available for today’s call, of dialing in or being called commended.
By Tom Colthurst, note-taker
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