[Memo to PACHA Members from Bruce Weniger]

TO:

PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HIV AND AIDS

RESEARCH COMMITTEE
O Phyllis Greenberger [phone]
o1 Bob Hattoy [phone]
O R. Scott Hitt [phone]
El Debra Fraser-Howse [phone]
o Alexandra Levine [phone] / [phone]
oC Benjamin Schatz [phone]
O Sandra Thurman [phone]
(0 Bruce G. Weniger)
WHITE HOUSE LIAISON
o Jeff Levi / Jane Sanville [phone]
FROM: Bruce G. Weniger Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
bgw2@cidhiv 1.em.cdc.gov
DATE: 20 October 1995
SUBJECT: Planning for December 7-8 Meeting
Dear All,
That was great to talk with you all again yesterday as we begin to gear up for activities
in the months ahead. Thanks to Alexandra for organizing the conference call and assuming the
burden of coordinating our Research Committee activities. As expected, upon hanging up, I
realized something important to mention on the call and for us to begin thinking about soon if
we are to maximize the productivity and usefulness of our December 7-8 meeting immediately
after the White House conference on the 6th.
I think it would be important to take advantage of the presence in Washington of many
of the invitees to the conference, as well as senior AIDS policymakers in government who may
be there as observers, as well as others who don't make it onto the invitation list. One
suggestion would be for Thursday 7 December to be devoted, as possible, to simultaneous
sessions of our various committees (Prevention, Research, Care, Discrimination, etc.), at
which we can schedule these conference invitees and others to provide us information, brief us _==
on their views, and engage in questions and discussion. (I have doubts that the hectic pace and
format of the White House Conference on the 6th will permit a thorough and thoughtful
exploration of many of the important issues.) Then, the 8th of December can be devoted,
more or less, to plenary meetings of the council to inform members of the other committees of __our findings, conclusions, and recommendations at that point. _
Scott, would you please let us all know your plans for organizing the 7th and 8th,
council meeting? If we agree to this suggestion, it will require a lot of advance contact work
by committee members to ensure many of these resource persons are available and suitably ~
scheduled on the 7th for our Research Committee meeting to hear from them. _,_