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Public Policy and Advocacy Committee

Public Policy & Advocacy

Chair, Public Policy and Advocacy Committee

Mark Schuster, MD, PhD
Children 's Hospital Boston
300 Longwood Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617-355-4661
Fax: 617-730-0633
mark.schuster@childrens.harvard.edu

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Comparison of disparities issues in House and Senate health care reform bills

List of letters that APA signed on:

Letter to Senate Committees by AAP re: special attention to children's health when developing rules for benefits packages under health care reform, 6-09
Letter to Senate and House Appropriations Committees by AAP re: funding for Emergency Medical Services for Children, 7-09
Paragraph of support for nomination of Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. as new NIH Director by APS-SPR, 7-13-09
Letter to Chairman Waxman and Ranking Member Joe Barton, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Reps by Voices for America's Children/Nemours re: child health, 7-13-09
Letter to Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education, Committee on Appropriations by AAMC, re: Thank you to Obey and Tiahrt for making the NIH a priority in the subcommittee's spending bill,7-09
Letter to Congress re: insurance coverage for children by First Focus, 7-09
Letter to Congress and the Administration by American Psychological Association, re: health disparities legislation - the Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2009, 7-15-09

June 2009 Committee Report

The Public Policy & Advocacy Committee had an excellent gathering at PAS. We had two great presentations on navigating a changing political landscape. Karen Hendricks, APA's Governmental Affairs Coordinator, shared strategies on how to advocate for children in the era of health reform. Patrick Conway, Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Executive Director of the Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research, provided an inside perspective on how DHHS is approaching the prospect of health reform.

Lisa Chamberlain received the Public Policy & Advocacy Award. Lisa is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. The award was for Lisa's outstanding contributions to child advocacy. Specifically, it recognized her efforts to make child advocacy training an integral part of all pediatric residency programs and to coordinate residency programs across California and the nation. Congratulations to Lisa!

Chair
Mark Schuster
mark.schuster@childrens.harvard.edu

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APA Advocacy Powerpoint Presentation

How to contact your legislator:

As we work very closely with the AAP and many of you are able to use the AAP member center, please go to www.aap.org/moc to retrieve the name of your legislative delegation. If you are not an AAP member, you can access numerous other advocacy sites which provide you with this information, including FamiliesUSA, which is provided here.
http://ga3.org/familiesusa/leg-lookup/search.tcl?domain=familiesusa

SCHIP/Medicaid:

The APA has signed on to a number of statements about what is needed in SCHIP. Here is the most recent which was released on February 12.

SCHIP reauthorization 2.12.07

You might also be interested in the recent statement (3.14.07) from AAP's Committee on Child Health Financing on SCHIP.
Click here

For the latest comprehensive update on all related child health legislative activities, see the APA Legislative Update.