NYSPHA Current Federal Policy and Advocacy Actions and Alerts

04/19/2023 – NYSPHA signed on to a letter to the Congressional appropriations leadership urging the inclusion in the FY2024 budget of $35 million for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), $25 million for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and $1 million for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to conduct public health research into firearm morbidity and mortality prevention. Click <here> to read the letter.

04/13/23 – NYSPHA signed on to a letter to the Congressional Appropriations committees supporting the CDC’s Social Determinants of Health program in the FY24 appropriations process.  Click <here> to read the letter. 

03/24/23 – NYSPHA signed on to a letter to the Congressional appropriations leadership urging that they appropriate at least $340 million for the Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. Funding for DMI will also make possible the critical work of the CDC’s newly established Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA). Click <here> to read the letter. 

03/22/2023 – NYSPHA signed on to a letter by the CDC Coalition to the Congressional appropriations leadership urging the inclusion at least $11.581 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s programs in the FY 2024 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies appropriations bill. Click <here> to read the letter.   

03/20/23: NYSPHA signed on to the CDC Coalition’s FY 2024 appropriations letter to U.S. House and Senate Labor-HHS-Education appropriations subcommittee leaders in support of $11.581 billion for CDC.  Click <here> to read the letter. 

02/13/23: NYSPHA signed on to a letter to U.S. ERA Administrator Regan in support of proposed regulations to limit pollution from oil and gas operations that are necessary to mitigate the immediate and long-term health risks resulting from the extraction, transportation and storage of oil and gas.  Click <here> to read the letter. 

11/11/2022:   NYSPHA signed on to a letter by APHA and the CDC Coalition urging the Congressional leadership to include at least $10.45 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s programs in any final FY 2023 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies appropriations bill.  Click <here> to read the letter.

9/21/2022: NYSPHA signed on to a letter to U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Rohit Chopra urge that CFPB begin the process of issuing a rule that would prohibit medical debts from appearing on credit reports if the debts arose from medically necessary services.  Click <here> to read the letter. 

9/20/2022:  NYSPHA signed on to a letter to U.S. Senators in support of the Respect for Marriage Act (H.R. 8404/S. 4556).  Click <here> to read the letter. 

7/25/2022: NYSPHA wrote to the federal Food and Drug Administration in strong support of the proposed rule to prohibit menthol cigarettes (Docket No. FDA-2021-N-1349). Click <here> to read the letter.

To read past Federal Policy, Advocacy Actions and Alerts, click here.