Priorities

Overarching Priorities: APHA is the oldest organization of public health professionals and represents more than 50,000 members from over 50 public health occupations. We focus our advocacy and policy work around three overarching priority areas:

• Rebuilding the Public Health Infrastructure
• Ensuring Access to Health Care
• Eliminating Health Disparities

2011 Legislative Priorities

• Appropriations and funding (HHS, CDC, HRSA, Global Health)
• Protecting the Affordable Care Act
• Protecting the Clean Air Act
• Reauthorization of federal transportation programs

APHA also has the flexibility to act, when appropriate, on other pressing public health issues that may not easily be categorized under the three overarching priority areas or that fall outside of our yearly legislative priorities.