June 2024 NHHF Advocacy Activities
June 26, 2024
This month, I increased my advocacy activities as President of the National Hispanic Health Foundation and was honored to speak at two Congressional Briefings—with the National Minority Quality Forum and the American GI Association—and also participated in small group meetings with Congress staff on the need to address obesity policy to decrease chronic diseases.
I also followed up on our NHHF/NHMA Capitol Hill visits from April 12 to start follow-up meetings on priorities for Hispanic health with Congress offices across the nation.
I sent support letters to Texas on coverage for Medicaid patients and sent comments to support regulations to CMS on Malnutrition outpatient care.
I was a speaker for the EQBMED - NHHF is a national partner - for the AtlanticLive Cancer and Clinical Trials Conference in New York City to an audience of 1000 - hybrid. I addessed the importance of patient issues from the Hispanic community and strategies to increase their participation in clinical trials and the leadership needed at all levels to change the environment and the health care provider education to encourage our community participation.
Lastly, I have worked with the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA) for the past two months the co-chair of the Health Workgroup to develop its policy paper on health care equity (section of the 2024 NHLA Report) that will be pubished in July and presented for 2024 key targets - DNC/RNC Latino delegates; policy advocates and others