Recording + Links (Follow-up to “DC Attacks, MA Fights Back: Defending Science and Our Health”)

Thank you so much for joining us on Wednesday for our forum “DC Attacks, MA Fights Back: Defending Science and Our Health”!

And thank you again to our speakers!

• Dr. Nancy Krieger, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Dr. Gordon Schiff, Quality and Safety Director, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
• Dr. Sarah Neville, Postdoctoral Researcher, Brown University School of Public Health, and Chelsea School Committee Member
• Melissa Varga, Science Network Senior Manager, Union of Concerned Scientists
• Katie Blair, Executive Director, Massachusetts Families for Vaccines

Recording

You can find the video here: https://youtu.be/3W9Hurh6XkM. 

Slide Decks Shared

• Dr. Gordon Schiff’s presentation
• Melissa Varga’s slides
• Katie Blair’s presentation

What You Can Do

• Write to your US representatives to restore staff and funding for critical agencies (You can adapt this action alert from Partners in Health (https://act.pih.org/restore-public-health-funding).
• Look up your state legislators and write to them about…
  • Preventing cuts to public health and health care in the state budget
  • Raising revenue (such as by the Corporate Fair Share bill (H.3110 / S.2033)
  • Strengthening our child vaccination policies (S.1557 / H.2554)

Other Resources

This is a running list of HHS offices eliminated entirely or reduced to the point of non-functionality. https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1_HNSEowQOkojkTM5MjXdNdXzNjPK79Q4BXO8VU83A0w/mobilebasic?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&pli=1&urp=gmail_link

Upcoming Forums

Join us again on May 7: https://actionnetwork.org/events/dc-attacks-ma-fights-back-protecting-masshealth.