Event
Rally for the Public’s Health
- Washington, DC
The rally was held on Wednesday, Nov. 5 from 2:30-4 p.m. to rally for critical public health issues and initiatives. Whether you’re visiting Washington, D.C. for the Annual Meeting or you are a local public health advocate, this rally is for you. Public health advocates from across the country gathered to highlight urgent priorities, including:
- Investing in public health
- Strengthening the public health workforce
- Gun violence prevention
- Reproductive rights
- Climate and environmental health
Rally speakers shared powerful stories, bold ideas and calls to action that will energize and inspire. Together, they demonstrated the strength, unity and passion of the public health community — and reinforced that protecting the public’s health is not optional, it’s essential. Speakers included:
- Aryn Melton Backus, Former CDC employee, Fired But Fighting
- Georges C. Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, APHA
- Sylvia Chou, Bethesda Declaration Signer, NIH
- Dr. Rob Davidson, Executive Director, The Committee to Protect Health Care
- Rep. Max Frost, U.S. House Representative for Florida's 10th Congressional District
- Elena Hung, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Little Lobbyists
- Dr. Tom Inglesby, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Rep. Justin Jones, Tennessee House of Representatives
- LaMonika Jones, Director, D.C. Hunger Solutions
- Senator Edward J. Markey, U.S. Senator for Massachusetts
- Nandi Marshall, DrPH, MPH, CHES, CLC, CDE, President-Elect, APHA
- Bob Morris, Founder, Science Accountability Institute
- Rep. Kim Schrier, U.S. House Representative for Washington's 8th Congressional District
At the conclusion of the Rally, attendees joined the March for Health & Science.
A broad coalition of groups from the healthcare, public health and scientific communities will march from the rally to the Capitol, where they held a press conference to present accumulated signatures from five petitions calling for the resignation or removal of RFK Jr.
