Speak For Health

Fact sheets

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Health Resources and Services Administration (PDF) 

CDC funding state fact sheets

HRSA funding state fact sheets

Letters

CDC Coalition letter to Senate Labor-HHS-Education appropriations subcommittee leaders urging them to match the House level of $8.22 billion for CDC in FY 2020 (June 21)

Friends of HRSA Coalition letter to House and Senate Labor-HHS-Education appropriations subcommittee leaders in support of $8.56 billion for HRSA in FY 2020 (March 15)

CDC Coalition letter to House and Senate Labor-HHS-Education appropriations subcommittee leaders in support of $7.8 billion for CDC in FY 2020 (March 4)

Action alerts

Impacts of repealing the Affordable Care Act

APHA letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives in support of H.R. 986, the Protecting Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions Act of 2019 (May 7)

APHA letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives in support of H.R. 987, the Strengthening Health Care and Prescription Drug Costs Act (May 15)

Public health brief in support of the Affordable Care Act in the case Texas vs. the United States (June 14) 

Read the APHA fact sheet on why we still need the Affordable Care Act (PDF)

Kaiser Family Foundation's summary of the Affordable Care Act

Center of Budget and Policy Priorities state by state impacts report

The Prevention and Public Health Fund

Organization letter supporting the Prevention and Public Health Fund Restoration Act (June 18) 

Read the APHA Prevention and Public Health Fund fact sheet (PDF)

List of organizations supporting the fund (PDF)

Letters

Health organization letter to House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee leaders in support of tax incentives for clean energy deployment to address climate change (Oct. 2)

Health organization letter to the House of Representatives in support of H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act (April 29)

Health organization letter requesting increased funding for CDC's Climate and Health Program in FY 2020 (March 22)

Organization letter to Sen. Markey and Rep. Cartwright in support of the reintroduction of the Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Act (March 4)

Action alerts

Urge your members of Congress to cosponsor the Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Act

Tell your members of Congress to protect the public's health from climate change

Other resources

APHA supports work to drive action on climate change and health

APHA and other organizations support state authority to set cleaner car standards to protect public health

Testimony before the House Budget Committee hearing: The Costs of Climate Change: From Coasts to Heartland, Health to Security (PDF)

Read the fact sheets (PDF)

Check out APHA's climate and health infographic

APHA policy statement: Public Health Opportunities to Address the Health Effects of Climate Change (20157)

Visit APHA's climate change page

Action alerts

Tell your senators to support universal background checks for all gun sales

Letters

Organization letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leaders urging $50 million in funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct public health research into firearm morbidity and mortality prevention (Feb. 21)

APHA letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Representative Mike Thompson in support of H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (Jan. 9)

Other resources

Firearm-Related Injury and Death in the United States: A Call to Action From the Nation's Leading Physician and Public Health Professional Organizations

APHA Gun Violence Prevention fact sheet (PDF) 

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