Our publications get the word out about advocacy initiatives, the day’s top issues, the importance of continued research and more.
Annual Report
Research!America's annual report is a look back at our accomplishments of the previous year, released at our annual meeting each March. Our 2008 report is The Next 20 Years of Inspiration, Innovation and Determination for Health Research.
Issue Reports
We have developed two series of one-page reports to highlight the benefits of research to improve health.
- Our Bridging the Sciences series demonstrates how the physical and life sciences intersect to improve health.
- The Investment in Research Saves Lives and Money series, founded in partnership with the Mary Woodard Lasker Charitable Trust, focuses on the social and economic impact of research that improves health.
Newsletter
Our award-winning monthly newsletter, The Research Advocate, features articles about advocacy initiatives, research funding, research in the news and news from members. Browse selected articles.
See our newsletter archive to download the latest and past issues in PDF format. Downloads of issues prior to September 2009 require a member log-in. E-mail kfuller@researchamerica.org if you are a member and don't know your log-in, or become a member here.
Poll Data Summary
Research!America annually publishes a summary of results from our most recent public opinion surveys. Use this data in letters to the editor; op-eds; newspaper articles; letters to and visits with elected officials; speeches; talking points; congressional testimony; town hall meetings and debates; and policy statements. America Speaks: Poll Data Summary, Volume 10 
was published in September 2009.
Investment in Research Reports
Research!America has been tracking and analyzing the various streams of funding that make up the total U.S. investment in health research for a decade, and trends tell us we are headed in the wrong direction.
To understand the current investment in global health research, Research!America tracks how much the public and private sectors in the U.S. invest in research on diseases and conditions that primarily affect poor populations in low- and middle-income countries.
Porter's Principles
In 2009, Research!America created Porter's Principles , a fact sheet to help advocates follow tips from our chair The Honorable John Edward Porter in reaching out to Congress to make research a higher priority. The fact sheet includes advocacy messages and tips for successful meetings with elected officials and their staffers.
Public Health Toolkit and Advertisements
As part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Prevention Research Institute, Research!America and our partners created a public health advocacy toolkit and a series of print ads highlighting the day-to-day benefits that prevention and public health research delivers to Americans.
These ads, spotlighting chronic diseases and unintentional injuries, emphasize the leadership role that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plays in protecting Americans' health from needless suffering. They are available for download through our toolkit.
Our partners in this initiative include:
- American Public Health Association
- Association of Schools of Public Health
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
- National Association of County & City Health Officials
Other Advertisements
Research!America advertises in selected national and local media outlets, both in print and online. We encourage our members and others to use the ads in their advocacy efforts, including outreach to elected officials.
- Injury Health Care Reform ad in Roll Call (Sept. 8, 2009) created by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and of which Research!America was a co-sponsor
- Global Health Research ad in The Hill (May 22, 2008)
- Your Congress-Your Health ad in The Hill (March 13, 2008)
- National Innovation Initiative ad in Roll Call, Congressional Quarterly and The Hill (December 2007)
- Global Health Research ad in The Hill (November 7, 2007)
- Global Health Research online skyscraper ad (November 2007)
- Global Health Research online banner ad (November 2007)
- Public Health Thank You Day ad 2007 (November 2007)
- Your Congress-Your Health ad in The Hill (July 24, 2007)
- Your Congress-Your Health ad in The Hill and Roll Call (May 22, 2007)
Research Takes Cents
Research!America's signature Research Takes Cents messages compare selected American leisure spending to the costs associated with conducting research. Low levels of research funding are not a result of the money not being available - it's just spent elsewhere.
Then-Now-Imagine
Research!America's Then-Now-Imagine messages describe the state of a condition or disease years ago (then), how research has improved the situation (now) and what further research might bring in the future (imagine).