2020

  • Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
    • Letter in support of HR 4742, which would impose an excise tax on nicotine used in e-cigarettes
    • Urging support for the Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act, HR 2339
    • Letter to FDA urging them to adopt a policy of disclosing to the public the products for which premarket applications have been filed by the new deadline and are undergoing the premarket review process, as well as to identify all those products for which applications should have been filed by the deadline to remain on the market
  • Trust for America’s Health
    • Letter to VP Pence and Congressional leadership calling for paid sick days and related policies
    • Public health infrastructure sign-on letter to congressional leadership to highlight the negative effects of economic downturn on public health budgets
    • Letter to HHS Secretary Azar urging him to strengthen and affirm the role of CDC
  • American Lung Association and American Heart Association
    • Letter to the Administration regarding the urgent need for action to be taken to ensure adequate supply and distribution of personal protective equipment and ventilators
  • SEICUS
    • Encouraging members of Congress to support federal legislation and programs designed to provide sex education that is comprehensive and inclusive
  • APHA & National Environmental Health Association
    • Requesting a $12 million increase for CDC’s Agency for Toxic  Substances and Disease Registry in FY 2021
  • Build America’s School Infrastructure Coalition
    • Letter encouraging Congress to enact into law Division K of HR2, the Reopen and Rebuild America’s Schools Act (RRASA), which would authorize $100 billion for long-standing school infrastructure needs
  • Food Research & Action Center
    • Letter urging the Biden administration to work with Congress and take every administrative step possible to establish Universal School Meals

2019

  • Results for America –FY20: Funding Supporting evidence-based funding for a broad range of programs including TPPP
  • APHA request-302(b) funding: To secure a strong funding allocation for the House and Senate Labor-HHS Appropriations Subcommittees
  • Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
    • Trump Administration’s plan to remove all non-tobacco flavored e-cigarettes, including mint and menthol flavors, from the market.
    • FDA’s proposed rule mandating graphic cigarette health warnings
    • Provision in Representative Pallone’s Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019 that would prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes
    • CDC and FDA Funding To the FDA requesting explanation for why new tobacco products remain on the market without a premarket review by FDA
    • Letter in Support of the SAFE Kids Act
    • Letters Opposing the House and Senate Cigar Bills
    • Tobacco 21 Bills
  • APHA – Infectious Diseases and Opioids: Requesting that Congress appropriate the full $40 million authorized in the SUPPORT Act to address the infectious diseases impacts of the opioid epidemic, including HIV, viral hepatitis, infective endocarditis, and comorbidities
  • School Based Health Alliance: School Based Health Center Reauthorization Act
  • American Academy of Pediatrics: Vaccine Awareness Campaign to Champion Immunization Nationally and Enhance Safety (VACCINES) Act of 2019
  • Power to Decide: Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program

2016

  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by Healthy Schools, A CALL FOR PRESIDENT’S CHILDREN’S INITIATIVE: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AT SCHOOL
  • Statement of Support: the President’s signing into law the new FDA ruling extending its authority to all tobacco products (Read More)
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Coalition for Tobacco-Free Kids to Major League Baseball and its Players Association to remove smokeless tobacco use from baseball
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Coalition for Tobacco-Free Kids to the FDA to implement a track and trace system to curb the illicit market in tobacco products
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Coalition for Tobacco-Free Kids to Congress to request level funding from FY2016 for the CDC Office on Smoking and Health
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Coalition for Tobacco-Free Kids to Congress requesting the $635 million in user fees that the Tobacco Control Act authorizes FDA to collect for FY 2017
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers to CMS  to establish national consensus around the scope of work needed to achieve excellence in school-based Medicaid programs
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by ASCD and coalition in response to the president’s budget only being 1/3 of the authorized amount for Title IV funding, and urges Congress adequately fund it
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by SIECUS support of FY 2017 funding for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program and the Division of Adolescent and School Health, as well as the elimination of the annually-funded abstinence-only-until-marriage grant program
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by Results for America in support for evidence-based funding for a broad range of programs including TPPP
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Food Marketing Work group – UCONN Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity asking General Mills to stop marketing Betty Crocker fruit snacks to children
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids to the FDA requesting explanation for why new tobacco products remain on the market without a premarket review by FDA
  • Comments Submitted: recommendations to the Department of Education to implement programs under the new “Every Student Succeeds Act” (ESSA) prior to publishing proposed regulations
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Coalition for Health Funding to increase the top line spending level for HHS to increase the top line spending level for HHS
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids responding to the Housing and Urban Development Department’s proposed rule instituting Smokefree Public Housing

2015

  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity opposing harmful riders limiting the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids asking for updated guidance clarifying that plans must cover a comprehensive tobacco cessation benefit with no cost-sharing
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Trust for America’s Health supporting a balanced approach to sequestration relief which maintains full funding for the Prevention and Public Health Fund
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Society of Health and Physical Educators supporting health and PE as core subjects in ESEA
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids asking to quickly publish a proposed rule requiring liquid nicotine products to carry child-resistant packaging and nicotine exposure warnings
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Trust for America’s Health, Healthy Schools Campaign and Attendance Works supporting a national effort that the US Department of Education is planning to address chronic absenteeism in schools
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-free Kids to ensure language in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement stipulate that countries protect citizens from tobacco harm by adopting public health measures
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-free Kids to addressing the grandfather issue for e-cigarettes and cigars
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the National Campaign in support of maintaining federal funding for the evidence based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by SIECUS in support of funding for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, DASH and a call for the elimination of the Competitive Abstinence Education (CAE) grant program
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Non-Defense Discretionary Coalition to replace sequestration with a balanced approach to deficit reduction
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the American Legacy Foundation requesting that the Office of Head Start include tobacco control measures in its program requirements
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids requesting that the FDA bring an enforcement action against RJ Reynolds for its advertising of Natural American Spirit cigarettes
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids requesting that House and Senate Appropriations Committee leaders follow up on the grandfather law issue for e-cigarettes and cigars
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Student Health Advocacy Coalition in support of the Opportunity Dashboard of Core Resources amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity to support child nutrition reauthorization recommendations
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the National Coalition of STD Directors to restore devastating cuts to STD prevention
  • Sign-on Letter: Sponsored by the Center for Science in the Public Interest in opposition of harmful riders affecting the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
  • Sign-On Letter: Sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids in opposition of weaker tobacco legislation
  • Endorsed language: Senator Udall’s Expectant and Parenting Students Amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act (S 1177)
  • Sign-On Letter: Sponsored by the Society for Public Health Education in support of Health Education in Schools
  • Letter of Support: 2016 National Youth Tobacco Survey
  • Sign-On Letter: Co-sponsored by the Campaign to Invest in America’s Workforce, the Coalition for Health Funding and the Committee for Education Funding asking House and Senate Appropriations Committees to increase the top line spending level for HHS
  • Sign-On Letter: Sponsored by the National Parent Teacher Association in support of Family Engagement in Education
  • Endorsed Language: Senator Kaine’s Teach Safe Relationships Act (S 355)
  • Letter of Support: Sponsored by SHAC and sent to Senate HELP Committee supporting 2016 CDC appropriations
  • Sign-On Letter: Sponsored by the American College of Sports Medicine in support of establishing a physical activity research program within the NIH Common Fund UPDATE: REQUEST GRANTED
  • Sign-On Letter: Sponsored by the American Public Health Association in support of a funding level of $77.8 billion for CDC programs in 2016
  • Sign-On Letter: Sponsored by the National Farm to School Network to bolster funding for the Farm to School Act of 2015
  • Sign-On Letter: Co-sponsored by the National Women’s Law Center and the Healthy Teen Network in support of the Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act
  • Sign-On Letter: Sponsored by the Trust for America’s Health in support of the Prevention and Public Health Fund
  • Sign-On Letter: Sponsored by the Sex Ed Coalition in support of Adolescent Sexual Health – TPPI and DASH funding; and the elimination of Competitive Abstinence Education
  • Sign-On Letter: Sponsored by Society of Health and Physical Educators which was sent to the Senate HELP Committee to ensure that health and physical education remain prominent in ESEA and are eligible for federal funding, whether or not core subjects are addressed; also requested that the PEP grant remain in the bill