BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY FO LOOM MEMORANDUM DATE: 2/11/80 TO: Dr. V. Bond M.D. Ph.D. FROM: H. Pratt M.D. SUBJECT: Liaison between Brookhaven National Laboratory/ Marshall Island Study and Los Angeles area universities. Don Paglia and I have had a chance to discuss, at some length, the spectrum of options open to us for such an affiliation We both feel, (please see enclosures for background) since there-has been such a hiatus in the discussions, that | we are starting almost from ground zero. Last fall Dr. Henderson called me twice to ask how things were coming. Unfortunately, I was unable to give him any solid information, and he indicated we should resume contact when we had some more definite information. Don and I agree that as far as U.S.C. goes, we should start back through John Nicoloff, a senior consultant to the program. John set up and was present at all the initial U.S.C. meetings. I will attempt to reach him by phone today to introduce Don and will follow up with a letter with copies of the attached 1979 letters. ' . In addition I will call Dr. Gordon Hadley to lay the ground-work at Loma Linda. I am afraid that the potential linking of our current efforts and the Burton Bill health care mandates, will confound the prelimnary BNL/university negotiations. The Burton Bill is so all-inclusive that I~ am sure no single university or even a consortium could the full responsibility. (or would want to) attempt to assume I can see how the BNL/L.A. area universities affiliation could interact with the final implementation of the Bill. The key to that interface will be the expertise and magnitude of support to be by the Marshallese new health-care system, at the present time, provided those elements are totally unknown and in the forseeable future.