| SGPPH Council Meeting - 30 November 2009 |
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The Society for Genomics Policy and Population Health Council meeting Minutes of meeting held on 30/11/09 by conference call at 0930
1. Welcome & Apologies Apologies were received from Alastair Kent and David Melzer 2. Council Membership Robin Bunton was welcomed to the Council The application of Dr Rizwan Alidina to join the Council was approved and he later joined the meeting 3. Ongoing Support from PHG Foundation The letter from C Lyon with the 2 options were discussed at length. LJ appealed to PHG Foundation via H Burton for more time to reach a decision as there were many changes afoot for the SGPPH (new secretary, affiliation to BSHG etc) this year, in addition to this new issue of a changed relationship with PHG Foundation. LJ encouraged the Council to research how other affiliated societies operate, and to look into further possibilities associated with Option 1. Action: ALL LJ wondered if there was a 3rd option of keeping the status quo but with reduced admin support from PHG Foundation in 2010, as BSHG took over some of this administration. This PHG Foundation admin support could be paid for. It would also be necessary to ask BSHG how SGPPH’s relationship as an affiliate to BSHG might be affected if SGPPH was to become ‘wholly owned’ by PHG Foundation. Any decision to adopt Option 2 would have to be taken at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of the Society. Irrespective of the above, it was felt that the organisation of a Spring 2010 meeting should continue, as this was a core activity of the SGPPH, although it was understood that currently J Lane was no longer permitted by PHG Foundation to take an admin role in organising SGPPH’s conferences. It was decided to set up a face to face meeting between SGPPH Council and some representatives of PHG Foundation, including the Chief Executive and Chairman, maybe at Kings College London in the New year. Action: JL to birdcage / organise. 4. Applicants for secretary’s position The three applicants were discussed. It was decided, in view of the need for more admin support, to appoint all 3 applicants as follows: Tony Farine: General Secretary, Tom Fowler and Angelique Mavrodaris as a meetings secretary / BSHG newsletter secretary. Action: AH to inform the applicants.SH volunteered to discuss with JL and AH how the secretary and admin roles would be split up into these 3 new secretary posts and draw up job descriptions. Action: SH 5. BSHG newsletter and website The date has now passed for submitting items to the newsletter. BSHG Co-ordinator / editor: this role would be taken by one of the 3 new secretaries (see above) Transfer of website to BSHG’s site. JL (and AH) would continue to work on the administration of the affiliation process to BSHG with Ruth Cole until April (unless it becomes inappropriate to do so). Action: JL to speak to R Cole about the website issues. SGPPH session at the next BSHG AGM in the summer of 2010: It was decided that a concurrent session with 2 - 3 speakers on the topic of Health Promotion would be optimal. Action: RA to email the Council with his ideas on this topic. i) AH reported that the session at the ESHG meeting had gone well, and that the 4th AGM had received most favourable feedback from the delegates. Action: AH to email the analysis of the 4th AGM’s evaluation to the Council. ii) Spring meeting 2010It was decided that the theme of this meeting should be gene expression tests in oncology. SH offered to take the lead. He said there may be possibilities to co-organise a meeting with cancer research organisations in UK or Europe and would investigate this further. Action: SH. RA suggested NICE should also be involved. V Warren has already indicated her willingness to speak (or could suggest someone). A spring meeting subcommittee would be set up of RA, SH, AM, AH and LJ at least, and SH said he thought MH would like to be involved, and would ask DM about it. Action: SH to birdcage / set up subcommittee meeting. Action: ALL to consider possible dates and search for clashing events. The location could be in Birmingham this time and RA could help with suggesting a venue. J Lane 30.11.09 |
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