Materials to Set up Your Visit

This page provides printable materials to bring to meetings with your members of Congress and staff.

Public Health Funding Resources:

• CDC Coalition Ask for FY 2008
• Friends of HRSA Coalition Ask for FY 2008
• Coalition letter urging Senators to vote in favor of the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill (October 18, 2007)
• National Fact Sheet Illustrating the Effects of Funding Cuts to Public Health Programs 
• State Fact Sheets Illustrating Effects of Funding Cuts to Public Health Programs 
• Fact Sheet on “What is Public Health” to help illustrate to your elected officials all that Public Health, and its programs, encompass
• APHA Issue Brief:The Public Health Workforce Shortage

Farm Bill Reauthorization Resources

• Fact Sheet on Public Health Priorities in the Farm Bill 
• APHA-endorsed "Declaration: Seeking Balance in U.S. Farm and Food Policy"
• Recent Press Release Stating APHA's Support for Legislation to Bring More Healthy Foods to Vulnerable Communities 

FDA Regulation of Tobacco

• Fact Sheet on FDA Regulation of Tobacco
• Toolkit for Implementing Smoke-Free Laws (Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids)

Health Disparities

• APHA Fact Sheet on the CDC's Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program
• Background Fact Sheet on S.1576, the Minority Health Improvement & Health Disparity Elimination Act
• Letter from APHA Supporting the Senate Bill
• Letter from APHA Supporting the House Bill

SCHIP Resources

• APHA Press Release: Nation's Children Are the Only Losers in Failure to Override CHIP Veto (October 18, 2007) 
• APHA SCHIP Fact Sheet
• APHA Issue Brief: Reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program - A Key Step to Covering All Kids

Find fact sheets on several other important public health issues. Click here!