[header] How to plan a town hall meeting on a health issue [title] Form a planning committee. [step] The idea behind a planning committee is strength in numbers. There are few issues related to health care that aren't of concern to more than one organization. 
You need to identify other organizations within the community concerned with your issue, convince important members of the benefits of a town hall, and recruit them onto your planning committee. [substeps] For example, if your issue of concern was childhood nutrition, some community organizations concerned with that issue might be schools, pediatricians, food banks, churches, farmers, and day cares.