Welcome! U.S. COPD Coalition Semi-Annual Business Meeting Our Year - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Welcome! U.S. COPD Coalition Semi-Annual Business Meeting

Our Year in Review

NHLBI Update

Gail G. Weinmann, M.D. Deputy Director Division of Lung Diseases National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

A Federal National Action Plan to Address COPD This has NOT been done

To date we have achieved

• The NIH, NHLBI Federal COPD Workshop

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/meetings/workshops/COPD-workshop.htm

• Public Health Strategic Framework for COPD Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/copd/pdfs/Framework_for_COPD_Prevention.pdf

Public Policy Update

The US COPD Coalition has shared a common goal

• f establishing a COPD program in the Chronic

Disease Division

To date we have achieved:

• BRFSS Data Collection
• MMWR Article
• State Fact Sheets
• Dedicated Fellow at CDC

Public Policy Update

The U.S. COPD Coalition has shared a common goal of establishing a National Action Plan to Address COPD

With a new Congress we are launching a renewed effort on Capitol Hill in 2015

• Renewed calls for Caucus members
• Spring briefing
• Letter is circulating among the COPD Congressional Caucus Members

asking NIH and CDC to execute previous requests sent by Congress to the Agencies

Public Policy Update