Your Candidates-Your
Health 2010 Launches
Your Candidates–Your
Health 2010, Research!America’s voter education initiative, has
launched. Already, we have sent out questionnaires to candidates
whose primaries have occurred. After other state primaries take
place, more candidates will be invited. Once we receive candidates’
responses, they are reviewed and posted on www.yourcandidatesyourhealth.org.
Frieden, CDC Staff Speak
at Hill Briefings
Thomas R. Frieden, MD,
MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, met with congressional members and staff
during two Capitol Hill briefings May 27 to offer a first-hand report
of how the CDC is working to protect the health of Americans.
Members Take Action: ZERO
— The Project to End Prostate Cancer
As the economy worsened, ZERO — The Project to
End Prostate Cancer knew it needed to revamp some of
its goals. With some sources of funding drying up, its plan for state
chapters would not be paid for by donor money alone.
Spotlight on Congress:
Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA)
 Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) has long recognized the importance of research
funding.
“In order to keep our competitive edge,” he said during his election
campaign, “we need increased funding for the National Science
Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.”
Casey recently invited his Senate colleagues to join him on a letter
to the Appropriations Committee asking for $35 billion to be
allocated to NIH in FY 2011. His letter proposes an 11.9% increase in
funding for NIH and emphasizes that this comes at a critical time for
the agency — the recent boost from the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act stimulus funding will run out this year, further
decreasing NIH’s buying power.
 In a recent conversation with New York Times
journalist Robert Draper about the difficulty of achieving bipartisan
policy, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) referenced the importance of
public opinion polling and aligning policy with top-of-mind public
concerns — the economy and jobs being first and foremost these days.
He summed it up: “Reason always prevails, if you can market it
right.”
Following months of negotiations, Congress has begun
to move ahead with determining FY 2011 discretionary funding levels,
including those for research. The House of Representatives recently
passed a resolution (H.R. 1493) that limits discretionary spending to
$1.121 trillion, about $7 billion less than President Barack
Obama’s recommendation and $3 billion less than the
budget resolution approved by the Senate Budget Committee. This
allows the appropriations process to move forward with enforceable
limits.
Read more.
Margaret Hamburg, MD, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration,
and Francis
S. Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes
of Health, provided an overview of a new FDA-NIH
collaboration in the New
England Journal of Medicine.
Global Health R&D
Advocacy
The April issue of International Innovation
featured an interview with members of Research!America’s Paul G.
Rogers Society for Global Health Research. Based in the UK, International
Innovation is a leading global health care research
publication, supported and used by research leaders from academia,
the private sector and key stakeholders from institutes and
governments around the world.
Special Thanks to New and
Renewing Research!America Alliance Members
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Urge Your
Candidates to Participate
Your Candidates–Your Health is back, and it’s time to urge your candidates to
participate. Visit www.yourcandidatesyourhealth.org to send your candidates a message today!
September 10, 2010 — Nominations due for the Campaign for Public Health
Foundation “Unsung Heroes of Public Health” Awards. www.cphfoundation.org
October
4-6, 2010 — World Stem Cell Summit. Detroit.
Flagship international event uniting the stem cell community.
worldstemcellsummit.com
November
6-10, 2010 — APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition.
Denver. The oldest and largest gathering of public health
professionals in the world. www.apha.org/meetings
November
8-10, 2010 — mHealth Summit. Washington, DC. Brings
together leaders from government, industry, academia and
not-for-profit organizations to discuss the intersection of mobile
technology, health
research and policy. www.mhealthsummit.org
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