Watch the recording of our Right to Health Action Web-In, “COVID-19: Not Gone, Yet Forgotten” amplifies the voices that our government has forgotten and shed light on the current and long term consequences of COVID-19 that our government is neglecting. ​ We refuse to accept the status quo. We know that our leaders can do better. Our government must invest in health structure and climate justice to fight this pandemic and prevent more needless loss and suffering. PANEL SPEAKERS Expert in policy modeling of infectious disease and substance use, as well as the intersection of public policy and health equity. His research focuses on the use of quantitative models for improving the response to epidemic diseases. For more than 30 years, he worked on HIV/AIDS and other global health issues with several organizations, including ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), the Treatment Action Group, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa. He was also a fellow at the Open Society Foundations and in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2011-2012. He is a 2011 graduate of Yale College and received his PhD from Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences/School of Public Health in 2017. He is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. Gregg Gonsalves Policy director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress. She also serves as a commissioner on the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Ives-Rublee obtained her Master’s in Social Work at UNC Chapel Hill and began working with disabled people to help them find work and independence in their communities at the NC Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services. For Mia’s work on the Women’s March on Washington, she was named by Glamour Magazine as one of 2017’s Women of the Year Award. She was also recognized by She the People as one of 20 Women of Color in Politics to Watch in 2020, awarded the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award from UNC School of Social Work, and 2022 AAPI Victory Fund's Next Generation Leaders honoree. Mia Ives-Rublee Community advocate from Georgia working to be a voice for her community to ensure there is health equity and equality in underserved communities. Her passion for advocacy work has spanned more than10 years working with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault both as a civilian and as a military contractor. After graduating from high school, she served in both U.S. Navy and U.S. Army and is a proud disabled veteran. She has an Bachelor’sand Master's degree in Criminal Justice.. Erikais an active member of the Child Fatality Review Board/MDT and Clayton County Task Force. She was chosen as a Georiga Obama Fellow to assist with the re-election campaign, worked as a pollworker in GA for both recounts, and worked on Sen. Osoff’s campaign to get people registered to vote.The passing of her father from COVID-19 on April 7, 2020 led her to become an activist with Right to Health Action fighting against future pandemics. Erika Mckibben Founder and president of the COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project, a non-profit whose mission is to advance the understanding of Long COVID and expedite solutions and assistance for Longhaulers through advocacy, education research and support. Karyn has a Bachelors of Science in Exercise Science and Health Promotion and was a Firefighter/ Paramedic when infected with COVID-19 in March 2020. She sits on the advisory board of the Long COVID Research Fund serves on the Ancillary Studies Oversight Committee for the NIH’s RECOVER Initiative, a nationwide study into Long COVID, and is a single mom trying to navigate being newly disabled. Karyn Bishof

Congress and the White House are under new management, but COVID-19 is still accelerating. Training: Why America needs a Public Health Jobs Corps Featuring Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Hosted by R2H Action • Partners in Health • Center for Popular Democracy MONDAY • JAN 25, 2021 In response to the uncontrolled Coronavirus pandemic and decades of disinvestment in public health, Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Michael Bennet (CO) and Brian Schatz (HI), joined by Rep. Crow (CO), Underwood (IL) and Panetta (CA) have proposed the Health Force Resilience Force Act—the public health jobs corps we've been fighting for to stop COVID and end racial health disparities in America. This new, federally-funded workforce will combat COVID-19, boost the economy, build union membership, and repair American public health infrastructure so we are finally capable of handling disease outbreaks and ongoing health crises. ​ This live, interactive training featured Senator Gillibrand and her health policy staffer Gil Ruiz, along with representatives from the Public Health Jobs Now! Coalition, Partners in Health and the Center for Popular Democracy. The event focused on an important bill and how we'll get it passed, creating hundreds of thousands of permanent public health jobs in America. We hope that you will join us and the coalition of labor unions, health experts, clinicians, and advocates that are fighting to make a massive Public Health Jobs Corps a reality. ​ This event launched three weeks of massive grassroots action, targeting hundreds of members of the new Congress, pushing to get Health Force passed into law, while also advocating for ground-breaking new global health initiatives to stop new outbreaks, protect tropical forests and rainforest communities, build health systems, reduce climate change, stop wildlife trade, and increase funds for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.

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PEOPLE'S PANDEMIC PREVENTION PLAN Stop COVID-19, Build Back Better, and Prevent the Pandemics of the Future Endorsed by 141 Members of Congress, 450 + organizations, 1,500 front-line health workers, and >125,000 people from 121 countries APRENDE MÁS More pandemics are coming—soon. Some will be more infectious. Some will be more deadly. Some will be both. As a result of globalization and climate change new outbreaks are almost exponentially accelerating. With six times more animal-to-human outbreaks in 2010 than in 1980, we stand to repeat this deadly cycle within the decade. ​ The time is short to apply the lessons of COVID-19 and enact the policies needed to prevent this nightmare from happening again.​ America needs the People's Pandemic Prevention Plan: ​ 1. A GLOBAL FUND TO PANDEMIC-PROOF THE PLANET FUNDING BOTTOM-UP, COUNTRY-OWNED, COMMUNITY-LED PANDEMIC PREVENTION PLANS R2H Action supports President Biden's call for a multilateral catalytic financing mechanism, and joins scores of coalition partners and 120 House Members to urge the President and Congress to leverage other donors by putting at least $2 billion on the table as seed funding for multilateral action to prevent pandemics at the source. Account after expert account demonstrate that as little as $20 billion annually, from all donor sources, would avert $20-$30 TRILLION in economic losses to a future pandemic—as well as save millions of lives. Fund country-owned, community-driven "National Pandemic Prevention Plans" in every low-income country and every middle-income country that is a zoonotic transmission hotspot. These plans should accomplish complementary, interlinked goals: post-spillover pandemic containment , and pre-spillover pandemic prevention . ​ Fully implement WHO’s International Health Regulations and updated Global Health Security Agenda priority actions within five years. Make direct investments in public-sector health systems, including labs, surveillance networks, equipment, supplies, and health workforce to detect, manage, and mitigate outbreaks where they start, before they spread. Finance regional, national, Indigenous and community-led action plans to prevent disease spillovers from animals to humans, focused on the primary upstream drivers of zoonotic transmission: deforestation, climate change, and wildlife trade. Prevent outbreaks at the source by funding community-based economic alternatives to climate change and deforestation in the top 500 zoonotic transmission hotspots, providing health care, jobs training and support for economic development activities less dangerous than palm oil plantations, strip mining, burning the Amazon, illegal logging, and wildlife trade. Supporting country incentives for conservation and reductions in forest degradation, protection of wildlife, and regulation of commercial live-animal markets, husbandry and trade.​​ Increase funds for other global health programs already addressing COVID and other critical pandemics on the ground, and meet Joe Biden’s commitment to “ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2025”, with increases for PEPFAR’s annual budget (flat-funded for years), and sustaining the U.S. contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to make up for ground lost due to COVID-19. Read More 4. PROHIBIT SALES BY CORPORATIONS THAT PUT THE WORLD'S HEALTH AT RISK PHASE-IN PROHIBITIONS AGAINST U.S PRODUCT SALES BY CORPORATIONS WITH IRRESPONSIBLE DEFORESTATION AND/OR ILLEGAL/UNSAFE WILDLIFE TRADE ANYWHERE IN THEIR SUPPLY CHAINS. HIV, SARS, H1N1, Ebola, Zika, MERS, and COVID-19 are all zoonotic diseases. Diseases are jumping from animals to humans at a steeply accelerating rate, primarily due to extractive industries that destroy tropical forests and Indigenous communities—in order to sell products to wealthier people elsewhere. Zoonotic disease hotspots have already been mapped out, and climate change-inducing corporate encroachment into wildlife habitats is putting the world at risk . We know where the problems are and what's causing them. All that is missing is action. Prohibit U.S. Government purchases of products with unsafe forest or wildlife supply chains as soon as possible. Support U.S. and international enforcement of regulations for trade in forest and wildlife products, lending support to communities and national authorities, stepped up safety and sanitation for markets, and support for One Health and Planetary Health initiatives. Support similar initiatives in the EU, UK, and at the G20 level. Read More 2. END VACCINE APARTHEID AFFORDABLE AND ACCESSIBLE MEDICINES AND VACCINES WORLDWIDE—including the USA Drug companies want to keep medicines and vaccines developed with taxpayer-funded R&D (hundreds of billions of dollars so far for COVID-19) under lock and key, hidden behind costly patent monopoly barriers. Pharmaceutical corporation patents on the public's research prop up high prices that leave billions behind, create multi-year manufacturing bottlenecks, and grant privileged access to whiter, wealthier nations. This must change—for all medicines and vaccines, not just those invented during this pandemic. Domestically, exorbitant drug prices are an enormous problem that must be addressed beyond this current crisis. If a pharmaceutical corporation refuses to license a product or support transfer of technology and know-how internationally, or if the company refuses to agree to a fair price domestically, President Biden should make use of his existing executive powers to, at the stroke of a pen, license a generic producer. This is the only tactic to ensure prices always come down and that patients always get the medicines they need. The Biden Administration should also include global access and domestic fair pricing clauses in new taxpayer-funded R&D grants. Now that the United States has rejoined the WHO and made a contribution to COVAX, it's time to scale up support for manufacturing, technology, and know-how transfer. Until we help finance vaccine manufacturing hubs and distribution systems strong enough to reach billions more people, COVID-19 will continue to mutate and spread, possibly outrunning the vaccines we have at hand. Smart investments are urgently needed and will last long after the current crisis, once we've built up the industrial capacity already existing in numerous countries across Africa, Asia, and South America. Read More 3. LAUNCH A NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLIMATE JOBS CORP FIGHTING RACIAL HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISPARITIES Restore decades of disinvestment in public health and in environmental well-being impoverished communities by creating hundreds of thousands of permanent union jobs in community-based social change organizations, preferentially hiring from vulnerable communities impacted by systemic racism and the policies that push pandemic diseases onto the already poor and sick. A Public Health Corps should tackle a broader range of health disparities, such as opioid addiction, homelessness, environmental racism, natural resources restoration and conservation, clean energy, and even rural broadband. The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials estimate that at least 300,000 public health jobs are needed, and this number is supported by Obama/Biden CDC Director Tom Frieden’s estimate. They should be paid a living wage (similar to Census Workers) and belong to a union. Rather than being low-level health service providers for government agencies, the Public Health Corps should be organizers, working at community-based advocacy organizations. These jobs should be purpose-built to organize for social change and mobilize to correct systemic and structural problems that have contributed to communities of color being disproportionately poor and sick long before COVID. We must take additional action to repair and heal the country with new protections for essential workers, COVID survivors, and families, including: (1) compensation for victims and survivors of COVID-19, modeled after the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund covering out-of-pocket medical costs, mental health counseling, funerals/burials, pain and suffering, and loss of earnings, while also providing GI-bill style educational benefits; (2) Implement an NIH research agenda for the "25-35% or more " of COVID-19 patients Dr. Anthony Fauci reports having long-term symptoms; (3) There are millions of Americans who are or will be temporarily or permanently disabled by coronavirus. These people need hassle-free life-long disability benefits and other social supports; (4) Pass the Essential ​Workers Bill of Rights Read More R2H Action, joined by more than 125,000 thousand activist leaders, health workers, scientists, and families impacted by COVID, is fighting for a People’s Pandemic Prevention Plan. This call to action is backed by 1,500 front-line health workers and 450+ organizations. Renowned experts like Professor Jeff Sachs, Professor Ruha Benjamin, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia and Dr. Paul Farmer have joined the call, and are speaking up in town halls, online forums, and op-eds advocating for this plan. In Autumn 2020, R2H Action joined with Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Ro Khanna to advance the Pandemic Prevention Plan in Congress as a Congressional sign-on letter. After more than 300 grassroots meetings with Members of Congress and tens of thousands of emails and phone calls, 141 Members of Congress endorsed the plan Since then, we've helped draft a dozen bills, joined eight coalitions, enlisted another 120 MOCs on a new letter to President Biden, and are well on our way towards turning this plan into law. ​ These four priority areas are not all that is needed—but we will not succeed unless we tackle these issues. Organizational Endorsers ORGANIZATIONS ENDORSING THE PEOPLE'S PANDEMIC PREVENTION PLAN : As of 11 October 2020 : NAACP • SEIU • Greenpeace USA • United We Dream • Families USA • Religious Action Center • ACT UP • NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice • Indivisible USA • R2H Action [Right to Health] • Friends of the Earth Action • Center for Popular Democracy • Women’s March Action • Marked by COVID • Public Citizen • Union for Reform Judaism (RAC, Religious Action Center) • Rainforest Alliance • Community Catalyst • CAEAR Coalition • Oxfam • Our Revolution • Natural Resources Defense Council • The AIDS Institute • Human Impact Partners • Mighty Earth • NASTAD (National Association of State and Territorial AIDS Directors) • National Employment Law Project • #VOTEPROCHOICE • Positive Women’s Network USA • Association of Nurses in AIDS Care • AVAC - Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention • Partners In Health • People for the American Way • People's Action • Students for a National Health Program • Global Exchange • Torah Trumps Hate • Dogwood Alliance • Physicians for a National Health Program • Treatment Action Group • Social Security Works • Universal Health Care Action Network • Common Defense • National Women’s Health Network • Coalition on Human Needs • Southern AIDS Coalition • AIDS Alliance for Women, Infants, Children, Youth & Families • Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice • National Coalition of STD Directors • African Services Committee • National Partnership for Women & Families • Grey Panthers • Drug Prices are Too High • Clinicians for Progressive Care • End AIDS Now • Community Health Acceleration Partnership • CODEPINK • ADAP Advocacy Association • Center for Biological Diversity • Housing Works Inc. • Iowa CCI (Citizens for Community Improvement) • Physicians Action Network • Progressive Doctors • Community Access National Network (CANN) • Progressive Reform Network • Latino Commission on AIDS • Organizing for Action USA • The Juggernaut Project • Thermo Fisher Scientific • Witness at the Border • Mainers for Accountable Leadership • National Equal Rights Amendment Alliance • Justice is Global • Antibalas! • Southpaw Michigan • San Francisco AIDS Foundation • Casa de Esperanza: National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities • American Muslim Health Professionals • The Center for HIV Law and Policy • AIDS Foundation Chicago • Fenway Health Right Care Alliance - MA • Tennessee Anti-Racist Network • Berks Stands Up • 3rd World Matrix • A Space for Healing • A. Philip Randolph Square Neighborhood Alliance • ACT UP Philadelphia • Action Together Bay Area • Action Together Florida • Courage California • Action Together Suncoast • Action Together Walpole • Affordable Homeownership Foundation Inc • Akron Local DSA Akron • Alameda County Health Consortium • Alexander Tenants Association Inc. • Always Looking Up • Amazon Productions • American Security Educators, Inc. • American Voices Abroad Berlin • Amnesty International. Group 213 • Arc Health PBC • Arkansas WAND • Asian Americans for Community Involvement • Banned Books, LLC • Without Walls / Baun Associates • Benedictine Sisters of Baltimore • Benedictine Sisters, Clyde, MO • Berryville Organics • Big Picture Productions • BioMediCon, Inc. • Bolder Benefits, Inc. • Bristlecone Alliance • Broadway Community • Build A Movement 2020 • Butler County Democratic Executive Committee • Calling for Change • Cancer Prevention Daily • Carolina Jews for Justice • Casa de Salud • CDI / Choices for Children • Center for Indian Law • Center For Inquiry • Central Valley Journey 4 Justice • Centre for Environment Human Rights & Development Forum- CEHRDF • Physicians for Social Responsibility - Chicago • Christian Council of Delmarva • Christus Trinity Clinic • Circle of Hope • 7 Toes Productions • Cleveland Power of Wind Action Team • Climate Health Now, California • CO Foundation for Universal Health Care - Candidate Liaison Project for IMFA • Coai, Inc. • Collier Congressional Watchdogs • Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care • Communities of Shalom, Inc. • Communities Without Borders • Community Food and Justice Coalition • Community Health Partnership • Community of St. Francis, San Francisco • Compassionate Toledo • Congregation of St. Joseph • Ka Ipu Ha'a Mentoring Program • Daughters of Charity • Dearborn Art Group • Deep Water Care • Desert Progressives • Dialogue Institute • District 6 Community Planners • Diversity Directions • DSA Health Workers Collective • Earth Evolution • Ecological Rights Foundation • Economic Inequity Health Task Force of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility • ECOregon: The Environmental Concert of Oregon • Educultural Foundation • El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center • EMPOWER India • Empowered Connections • Indivisible Englewood • Eno River Unitarian Universalist Earth Justice Team • Environment and Climate Change Canada • Eons Learning • Extinction Rebellion - UW Chapter (XRUW) • Family Council • Farwell Foundation • First Congregational Church - Littleton United Church of Christ NH • Food for the Cure • Fortunate Farm LLC • Foundation for Integrative AIDS Research (FIAR) • Free the Caged Children • Fresh Anointing Ministries • Friends of Earth-San Antonio Chapter • Fund Our Future International • FVM Global Magazine • GaiaYana • Garvin County Environmental Group • Gender Action • Georgetown Medical AIDS Advocacy Network (GMAAN) • Global Green Publication and Productions • Global United Voices Network • GlobeMed at Northwestern, Evanston, IL, US • Gloucester Coalition for the Prevention of Domestic Abuse • Good Neighbor Food Pantry of Woodstock NY • Grandmother's Healing Wisdom • Green Earth Goods • Green Party of the Mid-Columbia, WA • H-Peace • Hadassah, Orlando Chapter • Harvard Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association • Hawaii Institute for Human Rights • Health Care For All MA • Health Care New Zealand • Healthcare for All California/PNHP • Heart's Path Healing • Hershey's Mill Nature Group • Hip Kids Pediatrics • Hoboken RESIST • House of Grace • HTLV/XMRV National Registry • Human Ecology Center • id22: Institute for Creative Sustainability • Idaho Veterans Indivisible • iHealth • Immigrant Service Providers Group, Somerville CDC • IMPACT (Illinois Medical Professionals Action Collaborative Team) • Indian Health Clinics • Indigenous Circle of Flagstaff • Indivisible - Sacramento • Indivisible 49 • Indivisible Acadiana • Indivisible Action Group Upper West Side • Indivisible Anchorage • Indivisible Columbus District 3 • Indivisible District 31 • Indivisible Irvington • Indivisible Lowville • Indivisible San Francisco • Indivisible Sedona • Indivisible South Suburban Communities, Illinois • Indivisible Wooster • Indivisible-Canton MA • Indivisible, Lewisburg, WV • Injoy Pastoral Care • Institute for Creative Living • International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC), Fast-Track Cities Institute • International Student Carbon Footprint Challenge • Irish Doctors for Environment • Joining Forces for Education • JP Progressives • Just Faith • Justice For All (JFA) • Ka Ipu Ha'a (The Humble Vessel) • Kamukunji Paralegal Trust (KAPLET) • Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare • Kids First • Kids Talk Climate • Kids That Care Pediatric & Cancer Fund • King-Snohomish Progressive Organization • LA Forward • La Huerta, LLC USA • Las Ventanas • Latinos Salud • League of Women Voters of Greater Cleveland • League of Women Voters of New Rochelle • Leonard Peltier Defense Committee • Let’s Kick ASS NY (AIDS Survivor Syndrome) • Liberal Women of Chesterfield County Healthcare Advocacy Committee • Living Beatitudes Community • Longview United Methodist Church • Lumiere Foundation • Lycoming County Progressives • Madoo Ministry • Mariposa Habitat Nursery • Mass ACT • Mass Peace Action • MDavis Consulting LLC • Medafore.com • Medical IMPACT • Medical Whistleblower Advocacy Network • Michigan Coalition for Human Rights • Michigan Teamsters Black Caucus • MillerMedia7 • Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter (MRVAC) • Minority Health International Research Training Program at Rhodes College • MIT Global Health Alliance, Planetary Health Alliance • Monastery of St. Gertrude • Morris Action Coalition • Mothers Out Front-Tompkins • Moving Forward Towards Independence • National Equality Action Team (NEAT) • Nebraskans for Peace • Nelson Mandela TB HIV Community Information and Resource Center • Neponset Health Center • NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice • Nevada County Sunrise • New York Doctors • Nia Impact Capital • NJ Peace Action • Nonviolent Austin • North American Climate Conservation and Environment (NACCE) • Northeast Ohio’s Peoples Leadership Group • Nu Rho Foundation Inc. • NYC Coalition to Dismantle Racism in the Health System • NYS Democratic Committee - Town of Fabius • NYS for Elizabeth Warren • Ocean Conservation Society • One Human Family QCA • Organizing for Action Blue West Valley • Organizing for Action, Tacoma • Our Revolution Long Beach • OWL SF • Pacifica Environmental Family • Panhandle Democrats • Parallax Perspectives • Partners in Health Engage - Harvard Chapter • Partners in Health Engage - Pitt Chapter • Partners in Health Engage Miami • Partners in Health-Engage - UNC Chapter • Pax Christi, Long Island • Peeling Back The Onions Layers Community Education Project • PEER: Progressive East End Reformers • People's Lobby • Persist Chicago • Physicians for a National Health Plan of Western PA • Physicians for a National Health Program - Ventura Chapter • Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme • Physicians for a National Health Program of Western PA • Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro Chapter • Physicians for Progress - Ventura County • Physicians for Social Responsibility - AZ Chapter • Planning Alternatives for Change, NYC • Plowshare Peace and Justice Center • Power Together Women’s March • Preserve Giles County • Prevention Access Campaign • Progressive Democrats of America - Orange CA Chapter • Progressive Democrats of America-Tucson AZ Chapter • Progressive Women of Pelham • Project Blueprint • Q Clinic, NYC • Ranck Consulting • RATT Pack (Resistance Action Tuesdays and Thursdays) • Reclaim Augusta • Reedsburg Area Concerned Citizens • Rethink Captivity • Revolution Strategy • Right Care Alliance - FL • Rivers Project • ROC Action • Sands Jr Community Development Corp • Sequoia Forest Keeper • Sero Project • Sisters of Mercy, Omaha • Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur • Sisters of Social Service • Sisters of St. Dominic of Blauvelt New York • Sisters of St. Dominic or Racine Dominicans • Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia • Sisters of St. Joseph, Boston • SKS - Strategic Knowledge Sciences • Sound Solutions • South Florida Audubon Society • Body Politic COVID-19 Virtual Support Group • South Puget Sound Action Network • South Siders for Peace • South End Neighbors for Peace and Justice • Southern DE Alliance for Racial Justice • St. John CME Church • Stand Earth • Strong Heart School • Students for a National Health Program—Weill Cornell Medicine Chapter • Students for a National Health Program, UC Berkeley Chapter • Sustainable Arizona • Sustainable Mill Valley • Swing Left Peninsula • Terra Advocati • The Arc SF • The Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic illness • The Ecotopian Society • The Father Walter Outreach Inc. • The Institute for Creative Living • The Queenie Foundation, Inc. • SAMOCRI • Centia Health • The Talented Ten, Inc • The Tree of Life Clinic LLC • The Tucker Schoeman Venture • The Whaleman Foundation • The Writers Workshop of Asheville, NC • Tidewaters Gateway Partnership • Twin Cities Nonviolent • Upper Valley Community Nursing Project • Upper West Side MoveOn • Uptown Progressive Action (NYPAN chapter) • Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences • Veterans For Peace, Chapter 161 • Vivent Health • Ward 8 Woods Conservancy • Water Protectors of Milwaukee • Westchester Disability Advocacy Partnership (WDAP) • Westland Ecumenical Community Food Pantry • White Rabbit Grove RDNA • Win-Win Resolutions • WolfPAC Tennessee • Women Together Global Inc • Women's Health Institute • Worcester NOW • Wyoming Interfaith Network • Xun Biosphere Project • Youth and Women for Opportunities in Uganda • Americas TB Coalition • Care. Test. Protect. • Centre for Health and Development Initiative Africa • National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd • Action Together Stark • DEMSW • Alliance for Development and Population Services • Indivisible St Johns Florida • Global Justice Institute • Good Health Community Programmes • Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR) • The Womxn Project • SisterSong: National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective • National Working Positive Coalition • Broward for Progress • Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum • Human Rights Research Documentation Center (HURIC) • LightHouse of Grace • Gaia: The Earth Force United Coalition • Poligon Education Fund • UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose • Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, U.S. Provinces • Massachusetts ME/CFS & FM Association • Unitarian Universalist Justice Florida • Cascade AIDS Project • GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality

COVID, CLIMA Y COMUNIDAD Este Web-In del Derecho a la Salud utilizará una lente participativa centrada en la comunidad para explorar cómo se conectan COVID-19 y el clima. Después de aprender de un panel de oradores con amplia experiencia en movilización comunitaria, justicia climática y One Health, nos organizaremos en pequeños grupos interactivos que visualizan y cocrean soluciones sostenibles para optimizar la salud planetaria, prevenir futuras pandemias y lograr justicia para todos . Al cultivar modelos para una colaboración efectiva dentro de nuestra comunidad global diversa, juntos crearemos el impulso para un movimiento transformador que vincule directamente la sostenibilidad ambiental con la salud humana. ¡Únase a nosotros el martes 4 de agosto a las 8:00 AM PST / 11:00 AM EST para un ayuntamiento virtual! Nuestros distinguidos oradores informarán a los medios sobre un conjunto de recomendaciones hechas por más de 1,500 profesionales de la salud y expertos que instan a Joe Biden a adoptar un conjunto de políticas para detener la crisis ahora, reconstruir un mundo mejor y prevenir las pandemias del futuro. Los oradores también comentarán sobre el estado de las negociaciones de COVID-4 en curso en el Congreso. Tenemos el honor de albergar a estos líderes dinámicos: Jeffrey Sachs, PhD Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, es un profesor de economía de renombre mundial, autor superventas, líder en desarrollo sostenible y asesor principal de la ONU. Es un destacado experto en desarrollo económico, macroeconomía global, el escape de la pobreza extrema, el control del SIDA, la malaria y otras enfermedades, y la batalla contra el cambio climático inducido por el hombre. Sachs fue co-receptor del Premio Blue Planet por su liderazgo ambiental y ha sido nombrado dos veces entre los líderes mundiales más influyentes de la revista Time. El New York Times calificó a Sachs como "probablemente el economista más importante del mundo". Los profesores Sachs se desempeñan como Director del Centro para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Universidad de Columbia y fue Director del Instituto de la Tierra de 2002 a 2016. Abdul El-Sayed, MD Abdul El-Sayed, MD, DPhil, es médico, epidemiólogo, activista progresista, educador, autor, orador y presentador de podcast. Es presidente de Southpaw Michigan y colaborador político en CNN. Es autor de Healing Politics, y pide una política de empatía para curar nuestra epidemia de inseguridad, y el próximo Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide with Dr. Micah Johnson. Es el presentador de "America Dissected", un podcast de Crooked Media, que va más allá de los titulares para explorar lo que realmente importa para nuestra salud. Es un Académico Residente en la Universidad Estatal de Wayne y en la Universidad Americana que enseña sobre la interacción de la salud pública, las políticas públicas y la política. Rishi Rattan, MD Rishi Rattan, MD, es profesor asociado de cirugía en la Universidad de Miami y cirujano de traumatología y cuidados críticos en el Jackson Memorial Hospital, uno de los hospitales públicos más grandes del país. Actualmente está en primera línea en el epicentro actual de la pandemia de COVID. El Dr. Rattan ocupa múltiples puestos de campo y docentes en el Sistema Médico Nacional de Desastres en respuesta a desastres y emergencias. Él capacita a agencias civiles, gubernamentales y militares nacionales y extranjeras en respuesta a emergencias en desastres, situaciones humanitarias, conflictos y otros entornos austeros. Da conferencias en universidades y escuelas profesionales a nivel internacional. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en prensa científica y popular y traducido a múltiples idiomas. Hannah Lichtsinn, MD Hannah Lichtsinn, MD, FAAP, es internista y pediatra de HealthPartners en St. Paul, MN y profesora asistente de medicina en la Universidad de Minnesota. Es cofundadora de la Minnesota Immigrant Health Alliance (MIHA), copresidenta de la organización de defensa de la salud Our Stories. Our Health., Y miembro de la junta del capítulo de Minnesota de la Academia Estadounidense de Pediatría (MNAPP). También es miembro de 2020-2021 de Líderes en Políticas de Salud de la Sociedad de Medicina Interna General (SGIM).

Thank you for your interest in getting involved with Right to Health Action! We are a dynamic team of activists and organizers from around the country working to advance our campaign for global health equity and pandemic preparedness. We are looking for more dedicated people to join our team! ​ Read about all of the open roles available, and indicate your interest on our Join Us form . A member from our team will reach out to you soon about next steps! We can't wait to hear from you. We are a volunteer-run organization, and at this time all roles are unpaid. Join the R2H Action team! Apply to be a State Captain State Captains play the vital role of organizing a team of in-state constituents to meet with their representatives, spearheading direct actions and training events, and cultivating key local partnerships. They are the powerhouse of our grassroots base! Average: 10 hours / week. ​ Main Objectives of State Captains: ​ Organize a consistent team of at least 10 people in each region/state from our lists and from personal networks, prioritizing people who were directly impacted by COVID. Build a roster of folks in each Congressional district that can be tapped for MoC meetings, using both our lists and personal networks. R2H will be able to provide a short list of warm leads from our database of folks that have COVID stories. Identify strategic partners with high political capital whose interests overlap with any of our legislative goals in order to work in coalition and increase political power. Employ strategic escalation tactics as needed including, but not limited to: writing and placing LTEs, birddogging, direct actions, civil disobedience etc. Learn more about the State Captain role in our Scope of Work and fill out an application form here. Questions can be sent to akshita.siddula@r2haction.org . Please note: The State Captain role is the only position that requires an application. APPLY HERE Be a Regional Organizer Main Objectives of Regional Organizers: ​ Support State Captains and their State Teams with Core Team strategy and direction Train and support State Captains and State Teams with necessary organizing/advocacy skills Provide technical assistance for meetings with members of Congress and other political actions to influence Congressional offices so they accept our demands. Backstop the Congressional meetings as needed Serve as main mechanism for feedback to travel from State Teams to the Organizing Team Leads and vice versa 10-15 hours/week Learn more about the Regional Organizer role in our Scope of Work. Questions can be sent to akshita.siddula@r2haction.org . LEARN MORE APPLY HERE Join the Events Team Main Objectives of Events Team: ​ Collaborate both internally and externally to develop and execute events that further Right to Health Action’s policy agenda by expanding our network, educating activists and organizers, and strengthening strategic connections. Past events can be found here. Support promotion and communications of events Facilitate speaker outreach, and communications Provide technological support for online events and support core event planning ​ Read more about the role in our Events Team Scope of Work. Contact lauren.mccormick@r2haction.org with questions. LEARN MORE APPLY HERE Be a Policy Advisor Main Objectives of Policy Advisors: ​ Build our policy platform, in consultation with allies—and represent our demands with policy makers and our numerous movement coalitions! 10 hours a week, including all-team, policy team, MOC and (one of our) regular coalition meetings Support the development and implementation of R2HA strategic advocacy, undertaking the necessary policy and political work to achieve progress on R2HA’s 5 tent poles. Contribute to the identification, analysis, and strategic positioning on policies and practices of key stakeholders at the national and international levels relevant to R2HA’s priorities—and brainstorming/creating opportunities to improve them. Coordinate closely with the Community Organizing and Events teams to coalesce R2HA’s advocacy and political education objectives with the Policy Team’s current goals. ​ Learn more about the Policy Advisor role in our Scope of Work. Questions can be sent to pranav.savanur @r2haction.org LEARN MORE APPLY HERE Join the Communications Team Main Objectives of the Communications Team: ​ Promote Right to Health Action activities, campaigns, and updates to the wider network via email marketing, social media, and our website Create compelling visual and written content related to Right to Health Action’s campaign for health equity, communicating our policy and organizing efforts and successes Amplify our message and campaign through writing press releases, media advisories, and cultivating relationships with editors Maintain an active social media presence, post regular content, foster engagement to grow our online community Learn more about the Communications & Media team in our Scope of Work. Questions can be sent to nikita.viswasam@r2haction.org . LEARN MORE APPLY HERE Join the Fundraising Team ​ Main Objectives of the Fundraising Team: ​ Collaborate both internally and externally to develop and execute fundraising campaigns/events, strengthen relationships with potential funders Research grant applications and like-minded organizations to connect to raise funds Develop impact statements and spearhead stewardship and acknowledgement of donors Strengthen relationships with organizations and potential funders in the global health equity and climate justice space to cultivate good working relationships Learn more about the Fundraising team in our Scope of Work. Questions can be sent to tulika.singh@r2haction.org. LEARN MORE APPLY HERE Fill out the Right to Health Action "JOIN US" form and indicate your areas of interest. A team member will reach out with next steps soon! JOIN US Want to join the team?

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[WATCH] writer, activist, & AIDS journalist discusses her new book about how activists won life-saving HIV/AIDS treatment for 26 million people Author Emily Bass and Dr. Joia Mukherjee from Partners in Health come together for an exclusive conversation about Emily’s brand new book, “To End A Plague.'' This book uncovers the movement that ignited in 1998 to successfully repeal global policies that put drug company profits over the lives of the poor, and win life-saving treatment for millions of people with AIDS around the world. These revolutionary activists stood up to big pharma and the World Trade Organization, got President George Bush to care about this issue, and launched global solutions to a pandemic that was claiming millions of lives. We have so much to learn and draw upon from this movement as we are mounting our own fight against COVID-19 and pandemics of the future. ​ Our leaders have not learned from the mistakes of the past. We must fight for worldwide access to vaccines, tackle the environmental drivers of new disease outbreaks, and build resilient health systems so we can prevent the pandemics of the future and ultimately save millions of lives. ​ Emily Bass, author "To End A Plague" Emily Bass has spent more than twenty years writing about and working on HIV/AIDS in America and East and Southern Africa. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Esquire, The Lancet, and more. A lifelong social justice activist, Emily has served as an external expert for the World Health Organization and is a member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do Collective. A Manhattan native, Emily lives in Brooklyn with her family. Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH Dr. Mukherjee is associate professor of medicine in the Division of Global Health Equity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and associate professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School. Since 2000, Dr. Mukherjee has served as the chief medical officer of Partners In Health. She also serves on the board of directors for Village Health Works (Burundi) and Muso (Mali) and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti.

R2H Birddogging Training 101 BIRDDOGGING ACTION PAGE -> We are taking our message directly to political leaders on the campaign trail and meeting candidates on our own turf. You’re invited to join Right to Health Action as we host another set of trainings ahead of our 25-city “birddog tour" on Thursday, September 8th at 12 pm ET, (11 am CT, 10 am MT, 9 am PT) AND 8 pm ET (7 pm CT, 6 pm MT, 5 pm PT). RSVP to receive the Zoom link! We will publicly hold those responsible accountable for neglecting our public health systems and failing to stop tragedies like COVID-19 and pandemics of the future. Bird-dogging is a powerful strategy used by grassroots activists to get candidates and elected officials on the record about important issues! Join us for the training and learn this critical skill. Attend our first Birddogging 101 training and you'll learn how to find campaign events to attend, how to ask powerful questions, gain confidence, and be supported by our experienced team of activists to get into action. Our government leaders are not serving our needs. During campaign season, it’s easy to get to them at their town hall meetings, debates and meet-and-greets, and even low-dollar fundraisers. Meeting candidates and putting them on the hook out on the campaign trail is a way to level the playing field and force them to speak candidly on issues of health justice, choice, poverty, climate and all the issues we care about. Birddogging is an incredibly effective (and exhilarating!) action–and it’s how activists have won enormous victories in the past. Whether you’re an experienced or new birddogger, we invite you to join us and learn about how you can stir up some good trouble with us. We hope to see you there. Find Birddogging Trainings in Your City: Click here to view the below events page in your browser. RSVP

Join Right to Health Action for our exclusive upcoming event “The Movement For This Moment: An Interview With Dr. Paul Farmer”. During this 90-minute event, activists will engage in a thought-provoking discussion with medical anthropologist and physician Dr. Paul Farmer about the social movement that we need to break the accelerating cycle of pandemics. ​ Register below! ​ We must meet this moment with a movement that ends the cycle of panic and neglect and ensures that we don’t repeat the same mistakes yet again. This conversation will explore how we can take lessons from previous social movements and apply them to create a social movement to pandemic-proof the planet. About Dr. Paul Farmer Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., is Kolokotrones University Professor and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and Co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health. Farmer and his colleagues have pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings. He has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, from which he was the recipient of the 2018 Public Welfare Medal. He has authored multiple books, including: The Uses of Haiti , Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor , and Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction . His most recent book, is Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History .

R2HA + Marked By COVID published by Democracy Journal decrying impact of World Bank's colonial, racial bias against our new global pandemic fund READ ARTICLE Página Principal Landing Page Sobre Nosotros POLICY PLATFORM Plan de Prevención Web-Ins MEDIA Únete a nosotros STORE DONATE Únete a nosotros Copy of Únete a nosotros Search Results MISSION: Somos un movimiento de base de miles de expertos, trabajadores de salud y activistas en los 50 estados. Desencadenado por la pandemia de Coronavirus 2019, nuestro objetivo es tomar medidas para derogar y reemplazar las políticas mortales que causan ciclos de pandemias que impactan desproporcionadamente a los ya pobres y enfermos. También organizamos clases dinámicas en línea ("web-ins") que reúnen a activistas, profesionales y académicos para discutir cuestiones urgentes de salud y derechos humanos. Por último, capacitamos a líderes de organización de base para movilizar a sus comunidades para la acción compartida. LEARN MORE JOIN US: We are tens of thousands of activists, COVID survivors, people who have lost loved ones, scientists, health workers, students and youth, global health veterans, and environmental activists. We are always seeking new people to join our movement! Interested in getting involved? Let us know! GET INVOLVED IMPACTO LEARN MORE JOIN US IMPACTO READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE VIEW ALL PRESS VOLUNTARIOS R2H Advocate map