During the past year the Endocrine Society had several advocacy “wins”:
Record number of members participating in advocacy:
- About 2,500 members participated in advocacy activities, including online campaigns, Hill Days, and congressional briefings
- Society members participated in more than 100 congressional meetings in addition to regular Endocrine Society staff visits
- Members participated in EU “Hill Day” with our EU Endocrine-disrupting chemical task force
Legislative victories:
- We fully restored funding for the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study and the Diabetes Research Centers
- We helped the development of IVF legislation and the Treat & Reduce Obesity Act
- We successfully advocated for legislative language to oppose arbitrary indirect cost rates and forward funding at NIH
- Outside the U.S., we helped advance the U.N. Global Treaty on Plastics Pollution and EU regulation of EDCs
Current advocacy – We are fighting to:
