GHTC endorsed a letter from the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research urging House and Senate appropriators to work quickly to adopt a meaningful increase to the fiscal year 2020 (FY20) Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill and provide a robust funding increase for the National Institutes of Health.
GHTC submitted comments to a US Department of Health and Human Services request for information (RFI) on the 2020 National Vaccine Action Plan (NVP). GHTC’s submission encouraged the continuation of R&D objectives reflected in the 2010 NVP and recommended additional areas of focus including strengthening public-private partnerships, advancing regulatory science, ensuring sustainable financing for areas that lack commercial market demand, promoting access-centered R&D, and collaborating with international partners to strengthen laboratory and clinical trial capacity.
GHTC endorsed the STOP (Study, Treat, Observe, and Prevent) Neglected Diseases of Poverty Act, a piece of legislation introduced by Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) aimed at advancing the tools necessary to address and ultimately eliminate neglected disease of poverty in the United States.
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