Correspondence

ethics, health policy, pandemic influenza Objective To use a deliberative forum to elicit community perspec-tives on communication about pandemic influenza planning, and to compare these findings with the current Australian national com-munication strategy. Design Deliberative forum of 12 persons randomly selected from urban South Australia. Forum members were briefed by experts in infection control, virology, ethics and public policy before deliber-ating on four key questions: what, how and when should the community be told about pandemic influenza and by whom? Results The forum recommended provision of detailed and com-prehensive information by credible experts, rather than politicians, using a variety of media including television and internet. Recom