Policy
Building support for data-driven policy and practice changes that give every community the opportunity to be healthy and thrive.
A community’s health is deeply connected to the way its laws, regulations, and institutions support the health of everyone in it. In many communities across the country, the system is rigged in ways that concentrate power and money away from working people, at the expense of their physical, mental, and economic health.
The Center gathers input from experts, community members, and organizations from across the country about research-backed policies that support a fair shot for everyone to be healthy. With that vital input, we provide important insight to federal agencies that work toward and fund programs that make communities healthier. The Center’s research codevelops the kinds of evidence that can be baked into policy and practice change at all levels — organizational, local, state, and federal — to create genuine health opportunity for all.
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AAMC Center for Health Justice Comments on NIH Minority Health and Health Disparities Strategic Plan
On Dec. 30, the AAMC Center for Health Justice submitted comments to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Minority Health Disparities (NIMHD) in response to a request for information regarding the NIH Minority Health and Health Disparities Strategic Plan, 2026-2030
Policy Updates from the Center
The Center responded to a request for information from the National Institute of Minority Health Disparities with input from AAMC CHARGE.
The AAMC and the Center made recommendations for future directions in the NIH's SGM health research.
The Center, with AAMC CHARGE and the Multisector Partner Group, made recommendations to increase public participation in federal activities.
The Center recommended robust collaboration with other agencies implementing the revisions to the White House's revised race and ethnicity data standards.
The Center recommended changes to the OMB's race and ethnicity standards based on input from the researchers, clinicians, and community leaders of AAMC CHARGE.
Two comment letters shaped by AAMC CHARGE members' expertise recommend strategies for advancing environmental justice on the federal level.
The first major update to Dept. of Health and Human Services Section 504 in nearly 50 years will improve health care for people with disabilities.
The letter expresses strong reservations about the NIMHD's decision to not designate people with disabilities as a health disparity population.
Helpful tips from the AAMC Center for Health Justice and Vot-ER, a nonpartisan organization that works to integrate voter registration into health care.
AAMC CHARGE members contributed to the center's letter to the OMB on its proposed updates to federal race and ethnicity categories.