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Sequestration Resources

Community Resources and Information on Sequestration

Advocacy Resources: Take Action to Avoid Sequestration

• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has created a special website with a link to the 2012 Cancer Progress Report, information on sequestration's impact on cancer research, and more.
  
  
• American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) developed talking points and a FAQ document to explain sequestration and its harm.
  
  
• American Society of Nephrology (ASN)'s website, Take Action: Protect Research Funding, includes information on how to set up Hill meetings, talking points, and a video about sequestration.
  
  
• American Society for Hematology (ASH)'s website, Help ASH Fight for NIH Funding, includes information on how to help ASH's advocacy, submit an op-ed, hold a press event, attend a town hall, and more.
  
  
• Coalition for Health Funding's NDD United website includes a grassroots toolkit, sample letters, community letters, fact sheets, and more to demonstrate the impact of sequestration on the non-defense discretionary community.
  
  
• Coalition for Life Sciences (CLS)'s Sequestration Action Zone website includes information on sequestration, talking points, and a sample op-ed.
  
  
• FASEB is sponsoring a competition to solicit creative demonstrations of how research funded by NIH and other federal agencies improves the health, quality of life, or economy in local communities.
  
  
• Society for Neuroscience (SfN)'s Sequestration Action website includes a video explaining sequestration, a letters to Members of Congress, and other SfN resources.
  

Please Note: If you have any sequestration resources you would like to share, please forward them to Alex Khalife at akhalife@aamc.org or Hayzell Gollopp at hgollopp@aamc.org.