www.yourcandidatesyourhealth.org
Research!America’s award-winning Your Candidates–Your Health is the only voter education initiative focused on research to improve health.
For the 2012 elections, Your Candidates–Your Health asks candidates for Congress to tell America their views on research and health-related issues. Responses to the 2010 questionnaire and previous responses to Your Congress–Your Health are available on the Your Candidates-Your Health website. The results are presented in an easy-to-use format, searchable by ZIP code, state and candidate’s name.
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Funding for health and health research will be a central, heated issue in the 2012 elections. Voters and the media will want to know where candidates stand. Research!America and our partners are committed to ensuring that research to improve health also stays at the top of the agenda during the 2012 campaign and beyond—and that the public is informed of candidates’ positions on research as well as health issues.
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About Your Candidates–Your Health
Media coverage of the 2010 Your Candidates–Your Health initiative and the importance of research as an election issue reached nearly 70 million Americans. On November 16, 2010, Research!America and our partners in the 2010 initiative met to review the project and look ahead to the landscape for research advocacy following the election. A summary of the event is available, including a podcast and a copy of the speakers’ slides.
In 2006, Research!America and the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation established Your Candidates-Your Health to educate voters on their candidates' views on health and research.