Topic:Emergency Preparedness: do older adults help or need help in emergencies?
Speaker: John Webb, the Provincial Director of Emergency Social Services.
Time:12:00-1:00pm
Date: Friday January 22, 2010
Place: Royal Bank Theatre, 1st floor, Halifax Infirmary, Summer St, Halifax.

A light lunch will be provided courtesy of the Department of Seniors.

For those of you who cannot attend this session, we will be capturing it on video and hosting it here at CAKEns.com. When it has been uploaded to the site, we will email our members to let you know.
For those who do plan to attend,  feel free to bring a friend!

We are planning a continuing series of Lunch and Learns through May of  this year, and will be posting the times, dates and topics for this in the very near future.

”Untested Assumptions: the Achilles  Heel of Emergency Preparedness”.

Dr. Lasker holds an appointment as clinical professor of public health at Columbia
University’s School of Public Health.For over a decade, she directed the Division of Public Health and the Centre for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health at The New York Academy of Medicine where “…she worked with hundreds of people and organizations around the country to study how collaboration strengthens the ability of a group to identify, understand, and solve problems and to develop evidence-based tools that practitioners, evaluators, and funders can use to assess and strengthen collaborative processes. Her research and publications have focused on medicine and public health collaboration, partnership synergy, the public’s role in emergency preparedness, and the voice and influence of historically excluded groups in community participation processes.”

Find a list of speakers in this series, including  Dr, Lasker, here.