January 8 This week marks the beginning of the 2024 legislative session. The kickoff will be the Governor’s address to the legislature where she’ll outline what she sees as priorities.
Our Advocacy Approach
AzPHA will follow the session closely and express our support or opposition to bills based on a simple core principle… we support bills that will have a positive impact on public health especially when they are evidence-based or evidence-informed. We will oppose bills that are likely to have a negative impact on public health.
Our support or opposition to bills is located on the https://www.azleg.gov/ site under RTS Current Bill Positions. We have a host of Resolutions that also guide our advocacy which are posted on our website.
The fact that we have Resolutions on so many core public health priorities make it easy for us to be swift with our support or opposition. Our Resolutions go all the way back to the 1930s. They are initiated by either the Board or our members and all resolutions have been voted on and approved by our members.
Our Public Health Policy Committee has a discussion board on Basecamp and that’s also where we post information, research and documents related to public health policy. Let me know if you’d like to sign up for that Basecamp site at willhumble@azpha.org.
Our policy committee also has conference calls every other Friday at 2pm starting in mid January. Details are in our policy committee basecamp (email me at willhumble@azpha.org to get access to the members policy committee Basecamp).
