A Sonoma State University initiative on "the emerging Sonoma County health care cost and access crisis" holds its first faculty-staff caucus from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Oct. 12, in room 1211 of the Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center.
This meeting will allow faculty and staff to share their academic and personal interests in the crisis, share with peers what issues, publications, classes or research they may have done or have in mind which potentially relate to the Sonoma County and/or the U.S. health care crisis.
Psychology faculty member Skip Robinson says issues addressed may include the health care crisis development, its potential amelioration and how university faculty-staff-students may work together on an issue ?which is causing such significant community dislocation and suffering.?
The SSU initiative intends to raise a user-friendly web site on health-care crisis issues for the campus and community, work to improve dialogue on campus and between campus and community, and facilitate the development of key questions. Some of these can develop into primary research questions.
Robinson says other subject areas might include ways to develop government, foundation, and other funds to promote priority research, support of health professional training in Sonoma County, study of innovation in the U.S. and abroad and exploration of the possible development of significant buying groups for health care in the future.
The project has just begun, with initial support from the School of Social Science, the School of Science and Technology, and the Provost's Office.
On Saturday, Oct. 19, Santa Rosa Junior College will also hold an all-day conference on this issue.
For further information contact Art Warmoth, (707) 664-2689 or Skip
Robinson, (707) 523-2888
