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Dear Chair Aderholt, Ranking Member DeLauro, Chair Baldwin, and Ranking Member Capito,
As Friends of NCHS, we write to thank you for the subcommittee’s support for the National Center for Health Statistics in recent years. Through its data collection and analysis, NCHS provides enormous value to researchers and policymakers at all levels of government. To that end, the undersigned organizations respectfully request an appropriation of $215 million for NCHS in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. This increased funding will strengthen the agency’s ability to provide unbiased health data to policymakers and reinforce NCHS’s role as the world’s gold- standard producer of health statistics.
The enclosed Friends of NCHS FY24 priorities document details specific areas in which additional investment will help NCHS enhance its work. The U.S. is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic with a renewed understanding that timely, frequent, and granular data on America’s health and health care are essential to guide the public policy decisions that protect and improve our nation’s health. With additional funding, NCHS will be able to modernize and diversify its data collection efforts and more quickly provide meaningful information.
The Friends of NCHS greatly appreciates the House and Senate Subcommittee’s longstanding support of NCHS and we look forward to continuing to work with you. Thank you for supporting this essential agency and its role in monitoring the health of our nation.
Sincerely,
Academic Pediatric Association
AcademyHealth
Advocates for Better Children's Diets
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Anthropological Association
American Association for Clinical Chemistry
American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
American Association on Health and Disability
American College of Clinical Pharmacy
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American Educational Research Association
American Heart Association
American Pediatric Society
American Physical Therapy Association
American Society for Nutrition
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
American Society on Aging
American Sociological Association
American Statistical Association
Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs
Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs
Association of Black Cardiologists
Association of Population Centers
Association of Public Data Users
Association of Public Health Laboratories
Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health
Consortium of Social Science Associations
Cornell Population Center
Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
Data Coalition Initiative
Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research
Healthy Teen Network
Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Lakeshore Foundation
March of Dimes
National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS)
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association
National League for Nursing
National Safety Council
North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Pediatric Policy Council Population Association of America
Power to Decide
Prevent Blindness Safe States Alliance
Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Society for Pediatric Research
Society for Women's Health Research
University of Washington Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology
WE in the World