Science Leaders Need Your Help to Stop Looming Flu Epidemic

Without help from committed global citizens, millions of lives--including those of you and your family--could be in jeopardy.

Considered the world's most urgent health threat by the World Health Organization, leading scientists agree that a global flu pandemic could quickly kill millions. Unfortunately, there has been little coordinated planning among world leaders on how to fight this imminent danger.

Science and Policy Leaders Join to Confront Crisis
In a groundbreaking collaboration, RiSci, the US-based 501c3 affiliated with the 205-year-old Royal Institution (whose resident scientists have won 14 Nobel Prizes), brought together the leading science and policy journals (Nature and Foreign Affairs) to publish special issues that have raised world awareness of the threat. RiSci then brought together the key institutions, including leading scientists and global leadership, for a working session in July that set the priority agenda to launch four immediate new global programs. WHO, the CDC, Ministries of Health from around the world, leading corporations and NGO's all asked RiSci to provide essential leadership on these four programs. Their goal is to accelerate massively the necessary preparations and their global coordination to lessen the effects of a global outbreak.

You Can Help
RiSci needs your help to roll out these urgent new programs. Generous contributions from IBM, the Sloan Foundation, the Canadian Public Health Agency, the European Commission, NTI's Global Health and Security Initiative and some enlightened individuals, among others, enabled this conference, but there is not enough funding to develop and implement the urgent follow up action programs. Now you have a chance to help launch these projects. These include ramping up the development, production and distribution of vaccines and medicines, and the creation of a global communications network in which IBM will expand its present Health Care Network more broadly within the US and globally, and enable more rapid identification of epidemics and give needed public health warning and information to you and your families, and your doctors and public health workers. Another set of actions are designed to build the political will among key global decsion makers to committ the necessary major funding that is required quickly to increase production capacity, develop and distribute needed vaccines and medicines and public health information to medical personnel-and to you and your families.

Spread the Word Now!
Avadon, Make the Difference Network, Giving Globally and World Disaster Help, and http://www.worldwide-mad-foundation.com, all of which are global-minded non-profit focused organizations, are leading a campaign to raise $200,000 that will be used to support the launch of the action projects agreed upon during July's landmark conference. When you make a contribution of just $20. toward the RiSci wish at Make The Difference Network, you will help implement actions that can save millions of lives!

Time is Short
The July conference was a huge success and the Royal Institution World Science Assembly is ready to start the actions needed by the world now. Please don't hesitate, visit Make The Difference Network today to learn more.

Thanks in advance for your support. With your help, we can help protect your family and millions of others around the world from the next global flu epidemic.

Visit the $20 X 10,000 RiSci Wish today and learn more.

– Norma Owen, President, Avadon (Flu Preparedness Team)