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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

Legislative Report
Disaster Relief Information

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

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.