May 2025

As the dust settles from the 2024 Presidential election, the implications for health care policy are beginning to take shape. From drug pricing to the overall cost of care, the election results will have a lasting impact on the health care landscape.

 

Join us this May for an insightful Advocacy Grand Rounds session with Larry Levitt, Executive Vice President for Health Policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation. We’ll dive into the key health care policy shifts emerging in 2025 and what they mean for patients, providers, and advocates across the country.

Doctors For America’s Copello Fellowship program is a unique opportunity to build leadership and advocacy skills to improve the health of your patients and community. Twelve extraordinary leaders will meet monthly to learn from experts and each other about advocacy, action planning, media relations and communication strategy, engaging your legislators and so much more!

 

The program is open to medical students, residents, practicing physicians and retirees - your willingness to learn and make a difference is all that is needed. You must be able to attend monthly advocacy leadership meetings (2nd Thursday of each month at 8 pm ET), participate in Impact Area monthly subcommittee meetings, and create a Capstone project and video showcasing the work and results of what you’ve done and accomplished within an assigned Impact Area. 

The deadline to apply is Sunday, June 22, 2025 at 11:59 pm. For more information, please contact Angie Bakke or click below to apply. 

Bernard Lown Award for Social Responsibility

We are incredibly proud of this year's Bernard Lown Award recipient, Dr. Reshma Ramachandran. Dr. Ramachandran, MD, MPP, MHS, played a key role in advancing legislative reforms to the FDA’s accelerated approval pathway and clinical trial diversity through her leadership at Doctors for America, while also helping to halt the PASTEUR Act, which would have funneled billions to pharmaceutical companies without ensuring clinical benefit. She led the expansion of DFA’s FDA Task Force and mobilized more than 1,500 physicians to advocate for regulatory reforms through targeted Congressional outreach. Additionally, she mentors the next generation of social justice advocates through her work with UAEM, AMSA, and Yale CRRIT.

 

"Dr. Ramachandran represented the best combination of passion, intellectual rigor, outspokenness, commitment to activity beyond her clinical responsibilities, and broad national impact that would have made Dr. Lown proud."

Doctors for America Merch

Get your spring and summer rally gear in the DFA store! More designs coming soon…