Via the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation
The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation’s work on PATHS – a project targeting diabetes-specific health advocacy – has caught the attention of Massachusetts’s legislators.
Bringing a broad policy focus to the Together on Diabetes initiative funded by Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, PATHS collaborates with health care providers, legislators, and other stakeholders to provide policy guidance and technical support for legislative implementation. Its most recent publication is an exhaustive 150-page state report that provides evidence-based policy recommendations for North Carolina.
Last Wednesday, clinical instructor and one of the authors of the report, Sarah Downer, presented at the Diabetes State Briefing held at the State House. The three-hour event was one of several educational conferences hosted by Women in Government (WIG), a national, non-profit organization of women state legislators that provides networking and leadership opportunities for members to address public policy concerns. WIG handles a spectrum of policy issues including (but not limited to) economic development, education, energy and environment, and health.
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