Strategic Advisory Committee
Our Strategic Advisory Committee (SAC) provides strategic guidance and direction to the American Heart Association and Voices for Healthy Kids to advance advocacy campaigns. SAC members explore and advance key movement-wide topics that broadly impact member organizations. Deepening understanding and commitments around health equity is a leading priority.
American Indian Cancer Foundation
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Child Care Aware of America
Council on Black Health
Georgia College and State University
Hawai’i Public Health Institute
Hispanic Unity of Florida
Louisiana Funders Collaborative
National Alliance on Hispanic Health
National Head Start Association
Nemours Children’s Health System
Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation
Pritzker Children’s Initiative
Public Health Law Center
Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences at Baylor University
Suquamish Foundation
The Hmong Institute
The Praxis Project
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
University of South Carolina
Collaborators
Innovation, Equity and Exploration Workgroups
Our Innovation, Equity and Exploration (IEE) Workgroups explore defined policy questions to advance advocacy innovation, health equity and how policy issues may overlap, and support dialogue on social, demographic, policy and other trends related to the Voices for Healthy Kids policy priorities. Voices for Healthy Kids provides funding opportunities to support these projects to engage issue experts, stakeholders, community organizations, researchers, and others in a search for innovative policy solutions and future forecasting related to public policies that support children growing up at a healthy weight.
National Media Core Team
The National Media Core Team comprises communication experts from 25 national organizations who are working together to advance media and public relations strategies.
Policy Research Advisory Group
The Policy Research Advisory Group is a small group of equity-focused research experts that inform the research activities at Voices for Healthy Kids. Members challenge us to see our blind spots in our research approach, design, and methods and help get us closer to the root causes of inequities and become more anti-racist in our policy agenda.
Zinzi Bailey, ScD, MSPH, University of Miami School of Medicine
Gabriela Gallegos, JD, MPP, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health
Rosalina James, PhD, Urban Indian Health Institute
Christina Stacy, PhD, Urban Institute
Michael Stevenson, MPH, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Melicia Whitt-Glover PhD, FACSM, Gramercy Research Group/Council on Black Health
Stella Yi, PhD, MPH, New York University Center for the Study of Asian American Health
Policy Research Network
The Policy Research Network comprises 40 members of the research community, including Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded research partners, American Heart Association professional volunteers (clinicians and scientists), academic institutions and individual researchers. The network serves as the evidence base for the initiative’s policy priorities.
Partnerships
Health Leaders Initiative
Become a health leader to:
Create a program model sharing the truth about health risks related to medical and oral health topics
Engage national, state, local and tribal organizations who want to support goals, message and tools development, and assist with volunteer recruitment
Change the narrative with media, legislators and community advocates
Training Health Leader volunteers to provide key messages through effective message delivery
Download Presentation on Health Leaders Partnerships Here