Advocacy

The Administration for Community Living, which administers programs under the Older Americans Act (OAA) recently issued a proposed rule to update several aspects of the OAA. This is the first time that the program would see significant changes since 1988. The proposals were based in part on several aspects of a stakeholder request for information issued in 2022, to

New Website from National Non-profit Prevent Blindness Provides User-friendly resources to Educate, Empower, and Engage Public in Vision and Eye Health Advocacy Efforts Prevent Blindness, the nation’s leading volunteer eye health organization, announced the launch of its new Eyes on Capitol Hill advocacy resource: Advocacy.PreventBlindness.org. The new website and legislative action center will educate and

JAMA Ophthalmology has published a new article by Jeff Todd, Prevent Blindness President and CEO and Kira Baldonado, MPH, Prevent Blindness Vice President of Public Health and Policy.  The Most Urgent Voice in Eye Research—The Patient’s, addresses the importance of engaging patients early and often across the research development timeline for new medicines and treatments.

Annual Patient Advocacy Event from Prevent Blindness Convenes Stakeholders in Eye Health to Discuss Issues Related to Access to Care, Health Equity, Funding Needs, with Nation’s Elected Officials Prevent Blindness held its eighteenth annual Eyes on Capitol Hill advocacy event on March 7-8, 2023. Entering its 115th year as a public health advocacy organization, Prevent

Prevent Blindness supports the appointment of a Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Vision to the United Nations Today, Prevent Blindness has requested that Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, join us in calling for this appointment. In 2021, the UN General Assembly adopted the first-ever “Vision for Everyone” resolution to

Congress has released its long-awaited Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 spending legislation, which includes a total of $6.5 million for vision and eye health programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In particular, the omnibus spending legislation would fund the Vision Health Initiative (VHI) at $2.5 million in FY2023 – a $1 million

Today, the House Appropriations Committee passed its version of the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations legislation for programs in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education. The legislation includes a proposed funding increase of $1 million over the Fiscal Year 2022 funding level of $1.5 million for vision and eye health the Centers for