Voting and Health: Why Access to the Ballot Box Matters

Description

Join APHA and Healthy Democracy, Healthy People on Oct. 6 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET for our free webinar – Voting and Health: Why Access to the Ballot Box Matters – as part of APHA’s 150th anniversary webinar series.

The webinar will:

• highlight the connection between voting and health,
• discuss the important work being done at the federal, state and community level to advance voting access and participation and
• present tools and resources advocates can use to encourage voting participation and engage in voting access advocacy.

Moderator:

• Susan Polan, PhD, Associate Executive Director, Public Affairs and Advocacy, APHA

Panelists:

• Dawn Hunter, JD, MPH, Director, Southeastern Region, Network for Public Health Law
• Jeanne Ayers, RN, MPH, Executive Director, Healthy Democracy, Healthy People