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The NYSPHA Policy and Advocacy Committee (PAC) is developing a series of NYSPHA Statements of Policy. Modeled after the American Public Health Association policy statements, they lay out NYSPHA's position on the leading public health issues of the day and are used by the PAC as the basis for determining its advocacy priorities each year.
- Assure Access to Reproductive Health and Abortion Services
- Support Public Health Preparedness
- Promote Oral Health
- Promote Social Justice Health Equity
- Make New York Commercial Tobacco Free
- Prevent Firearm Injury and Death
- Promote Affordable Universal Health Care
- Promote Immigrant Health
- Housing and Homelessness are Public Health Issues
- Racism is a Public Health Crisis
- Addressing Climate Change as a Public Health Issue
- Land Acknowledgement
- Prevent Pregnancy-Related Mortality
- Reducing the Public Health Impacts of Alcohol Use
- Cannabis Policy Statement - Pending
- Opioids Policy Statement - Pending
- Promote Sensible Drug Policies - Pending
Please send your ideas for additional statements to the PAC at advocacy@nyspha.org.
We would welcome any NYSPHA members who would like to work on these statements.