Legislative Committee

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Purpose/Mission of Committee

The Legislative Committee advocates on behalf of DHPE for health promotion and education programs, policies, and funding that address the nation's leading health problems.

Some of the major accomplishments for this committee have been

• co-sponsoring, planning, and participating in the New England Health Promotion Institute in collaboration with the National Conference of State Legislatures, American Cancer Society, and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials,
  

• providing written and oral testimony to the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies before the US House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations on May 14, 2002, and
  
• disseminating the Executive Summary of the Policy and Environmental Change: New Directions for Public Health monograph through the National Conference of State Legislators to all 108 state health legislators and 144 state legislative health staff.

List of Committee Members

There are no committee members listed for this committee