Your Congress–Your Health Launched in PARADE Magazine
Research!America and the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation have launched Your Congress-Your Health, a new initiative to start an ongoing dialogue on health and research between Congress and the public.
Because Congress can influence so many aspects of health, including ways that may not be apparent, it's important that all Americans know where their Representative and Senators stand on medical research and other health-related issues.
PARADE magazine introduced the initiative to the public, asking readers what health issues matter most to them in its March 11 issue. The story, by Lyric Wallwork Winik, received the highest number of online comments of any PARADE article to date.
This feedback will shape a questionnaire sent to members of Congress in early April. Their responses will be accessible to the public at www.yourcongressyourhealth.org beginning mid-May.
Other sponsors of the initiative include the American Association of Medical Colleges, the Association of Schools of Public Health, The Endocrine Society, The Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation, the National Alliance for Hispanic Health and the Society for Neuroscience.
E-mail your Congressional delegation and let them know you want to hear their views on issues important to us all-medical and health research and other issues that impact our health. Visit the site in mid-May to find out where Congress stands.
Originally published 4/2007
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