September 18, 2006
Research!America, a leading research advocacy organization, announces Your Candidates-Your Health, the first national voter education initiative focused exclusively on Congressional candidates' positions on investment in medical, health and scientific research and other research-related policy issues. Visit Your Candidates-Your Health web site and use the convenient search tools to see where your candidates stand.
Your Candidates-Your Health Web site also features the findings of the latest public opinion poll commissioned by Research!America and the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, many of which correspond to questions asked of candidates. The results demonstrate that research-related issues will be important in the November elections.
If your candidates have not yet responded to the Your Candidates-Your Health questionnaire, please encourage them to do so. Responses from candidates will be accepted up until the November election. Available Web site and e-mail addresses are provided on each candidate's page at www.yourcandidatesyourhealth.org. An easy way to give your candidates all of the details on the initiative is by sending the link to R!A's recent ad in The Hill newspaper. http://www.researchamerica.org/publications/ads/RA-ad_Voter_Hill_9.14.06.pdf
About the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
The Foundation’s mission is to foster the prevention and treatment of disease and disability by honoring excellence in basic and clinical science, and through public education and research advocacy. The centerpiece activity of the Foundation is an annual awards program, which recognizes transforming achievements in basic and clinical research, as well as significant public service in behalf of medical science. For more information, see www.laskerfoundation.org.
About Research!America
Research!America is the nation's largest not-for-profit public education and advocacy alliance working to make research to improve health a higher national priority. Founded in 1989, Research!America is supported by more than 500 member organizations that represent the voices of more than 125 million Americans. For more information, see www.researchamerica.org.