Welcome  to  public  health  moment from  the  University  of  Minnesota. A  website  developed  by the  University  of  Minnesota  serves  as a  national  clearinghouse  for  best  practices  in pandemic  preparedness for  local  and  state  health  departments. Jill  Deboer,  director  of the  University  Center  for Infectious  Disease  Research  and  Policy, tells  us  more  about  the  site  called Promising  Practices,  Pandemic  Preparedness  Tools. This  is  a  project  that  we  started over  a  year  ago  by  collecting practices  from  state  and  local  health  departments across  the  country  and  across  the  world. It  contains  more  than  130  promising  practices  with downloadable  tools  to  enhance public  health  preparedness  for  pandemic  influenza. Bore  says  that  the  website developed  with  the  Pew  Center  on  the  States  is intended  to  facilitate  collaboration among  state  and  local  health  departments. State  and  local  health  departments have  a  difficult  time  and not  many  opportunities  to share  practices  across  the  country. This  project  was  launched  as  a  way  to  collect promising  practices  in some  key  challenging  areas  in  pandemic  influenza. Catalog  them,  review  them, and  share  them  on  an  easy  to  use one  stop  web  based  shop for  state  and  local  health  departments. For  more  information,  go  to www.pandemicpractices.org with  another  public  health  moment. I'm  John  Finnegan.