Advisors & Collaborators

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 

• Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL) 

• Center for Science in the Public Interest 

• ChangeLab Solutions 

• Child Care Aware of America 

• Hawai’i Public Health Institute 

• Healthy Eating Research 

• Healthy Food America 

• Hispanic Unity of Florida 

• Imagine Leadership, LLC 

• NAACP 

• National Alliance on Hispanic Health 

• National Head Start Association 

• Nemours Children’s Health System 

• Oglala-Sioux Tribe 

• Oklahoma Policy Institute 

• Pritzker Children's Initiative

• Public Health Law Center 

• Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences at Baylor University 

• Root Cause Research Center

• UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health 

• Safe Routes Partnership 

• The Food Trust 

• The Praxis Project 

• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 

• University of Kentucky College of Public Health  

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 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. 

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.