King County Board of Health meeting on June 18, 2009

Thursday, June 11, 2009

KING COUNTY, WA - The King County Board of Health will hold its next meeting on Thursday, June 18, 2009, at 1:30 p.m.

The meeting will be held at:

1. Call to order
   
   
2. Roll call
   
   
3. Announcement of any alternates serving in place of regular members
   
   
4. Approval of minutes of May 21, 2009
   
   
5. Public comments

Briefings

6. BOH Briefing No. 09-B13: Overview of Public Health - Seattle and King County's communicable disease protection function
   Gary Johnson, Manager, Prevention Division, Public Health - Seattle & King County
   
   
7. BOH Briefing No. 09-B14: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MSRA)
   Dr. Jeff Duchin, Disease Control Officer for Communicable Disease, Public Health - Seattle & King County
   
   
8. BOH Briefing No. 09-B15: Influenza A H1N1 (swine flu) update
   Dr. Jeff Duchin, Disease Control Officer for Communicable Disease, Public Health - Seattle & King County
   Michael Loehr, Emergency Preparedness Manager, Public Health - Seattle & King County

Discussion and possible action

9. Resolution No. 09-06: A resolution encouraging the state, insurers, health care providers, parents and individuals to support childhood immunization as an effective means of communicable disease control.
   
   
10. Resolution No. 09-07: A resolution endorsing the Public Health - Seattle & King County 2009 Tuberculosis Control program, as outlined in the response to the 2009 King County Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 16312, Section 92, Proviso P3.

Briefings

11. BOH Briefing No. 09-B16: HIV/AIDS Program plan and update
    Dr. Bob Wood, HIV/AIDS Disease Control Officer, Public Health - Seattle & King County
    
    
12. BOH Briefing No. 09-B17: Sexually transmitted disease control
    Dr. Matthew Golden, STD Disease Control Officer, Public Health - Seattle & King County
    
    
13. BOH Briefing No. 09-B18: Background briefing on environmental health fees for school, non-profit, farmer's market, and mobile food establishments.
    Ngozi Oleru, Manager, Environmental Health Division, Public Health - Seattle & King County
    
    
14. BOH Briefing No. 09-B19: Update on health care reform
    Roz Solomon, Consultant
    
    
15. Other business
    
    
16. Adjournment

For questions or additional information, please contact Mary Snodgrass, Board of Health Administrator, at 206-263-8791 or mary.snodgrass@kingcounty.gov. Sign language, communication material in alternate formats or other reasonable accommodations can be arranged.

Visit the King County Board of Health web pages at www.kingcounty.gov/health/boh.

The King County Board of Health sets county-wide public health policy, enacts and enforces local public health regulations, and carries out other duties of local boards of health specified in state law. These duties include enforcing state public health statutes, preventing and controlling the spread of infectious disease, abating nuisances, and establishing fee schedules for licenses, permits and other services.