Partnership for Prevention advocates optimal prevention policies to improve the health of all Americans.  Working closely with the Congressional Prevention Caucus, a bipartisan caucus formed in 1998, Partnership raises the level of knowledge in Congress about prevention and identifies strategies that can lead to a healthier nation. 

• A Prevention Policy Agenda for the 110th Congress
• Prevention-Centered Health Reform
• A Better Medicare for Healthier Seniors: Policies to Modernize Medicare
  

CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS

Keeping America Healthy through Worksite Health Promotion
July 10, 2008 

Partnership for Prevention, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance hosted an educational briefing in cooperation with the US Workplace Wellness Alliance.  The briefing featured policy and public health experts who discussed the benefits of worksite health promotion from business and health perspectives and legislative proposals that reinforce the importance of establishing workplace wellness programs. Read More. 

Fit at Work: The Importance of Worksite Physical Activity 
April 23, 2008 

 Partnership for Prevention, National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity, Workplace Fitness Coalition, and International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association hosted a lively briefing highlighting the health benefits of worksite fitness programs, provide perspectives from employers who have made a healthy workforce part of their core business strategies, and present policy options currently being considered by Congress that can lead to a healthier American workforce. Read more.

An Unhealthy America
November 30, 2007

Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, in conjunction with the Congressional Prevention Caucus hosted a briefing to discuss the findings of Milken Institute's An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease. Nationally recognized speakers discussed the impact of chronic disease on the U.S. economy and policy options to reduce the staggering cost of chronic disease. Read more.

How to Save 100,000 Lives
September 20, 2007

Partnership for Prevention and WellPoint Foundation, in conjunction with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, hosted congressional briefings in the House and Senate.  A new report from Partnership for Prevention found that increasing use of 5 preventive services would save more than 100,000 lives each year in the United States.  Speakers discussed the report’s startling findings, the health disparities that exist in prevention, and the policy changes that could increase use of preventive care and reduce health disparities. Read more.

Worksite Health Promotion:  Improving Health and Controlling Costs
July 9, 2007

Rising health care costs not only have an impact on individuals, but on employers too. Partnership for Prevention, the Congressional Prevention Caucus, the American College of Preventive Medicine, Campaign for Public Health, the Congressional Study Group on Public Health, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce hosted briefings to discuss the benefits of creating healthy worksites and promoting employee wellness strategies and policy options to leverage the place where Americans spend the majority of their waking hours: the workplace. Read more.

Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation:  What We Know Works
June 8, 2007

As one in five deaths in the United States is tobacco-related, investments in proven, evidence-based strategies are likely to pay substantial dividends in reduced health care costs and mortality.  Partnership for Prevention and the Congressional Prevention Caucus brought together public health experts to brief members of Congress and their staff on successful community-based interventions to help people quit smoking and stop them from ever starting to use tobacco products. Read more.