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Implementing the Affordable Care Act: Principles for Prevention

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Dialogue4Health Web Forum

Friday, June 25, 2010 (1:00PM - 2:00PM, PST)

Please join us in a forum co-sponsored by Public Health Institute, Prevention Institute, PolicyLink, and Trust for America's Health. We applaud the passage of the Affordable Care Act and the historic creation of the Prevention and Public Health Fund. With this year's disbursement, however, the Fund fell short of its promise. Instead of dedicating the money primarily towards quality community prevention, more than half of the first appropriation of funds went to shoring up the primary care workforce and for other non-community prevention efforts. While ensuring the availability of primary care providers is critical—especially in underserved communities—the Prevention and Public Health Fund must focus resources and strategies on supporting health in the first place. And while the Administration has made assurances that this was a one-time diversion of resources, we are keenly aware that funding priorities can change quickly and unexpectedly. It is therefore vital that leading prevention organizations come together to ensure that community-based prevention is fully funded and supported in federal health policy.

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The forum will accomplish three objectives:

  1. To provide an update on federal funding of prevention activities
  2. To discuss action steps moving forward
  3. To discuss signing on to a shared set of general principles and decide how our organizations and partners can best collaborate and speak with a unified voice to advocate for community-based prevention now and in the future

Principles for Future Prevention and Wellness Spending

  • Emphasize communities with the greatest need
  • Directly engage and fund communities
  • Create sustainable change
  • Encourage collaboration across sectors (including health care)
  • Change policy, organizational practice, and norms
  • Focus on environments (communities, schools, workplaces)
  • Build on existing evidence and experience

Please contact Jeremy Cantor ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Rachel Cushing ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) at Prevention Institute or Matthew Marsom ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) at Public Health Institute with any questions. Representatives of the four sponsoring organizations will speak, and Matthew Marsom of Public Health Institute will moderate the discussion.