Advocacy
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2020 ADVOCACY SUMMIT & HILL DAY
Being an advocate is more than going to events or signing petitions and making calls. Being an advocate for the melanoma community is giving your time, your heart, your soul and sweat to a cause that is embedded inside your heart. Not just for the people battling now but for the people who haven’t even joined the fight yet.
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— MRF ADVOCATE
Partnered with 7 organizations to support COVID-19 relief packages focused on access to care
Over 100 volunteer advocates representing 19 states.
Awarded first Congressional Champion Award to Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) for her longstanding commitment to skin cancer prevention. Rep. Maloney has worked with the MRF to sponsor a House Letter urging an increase in Defense-funded melanoma research since 2009.
Laws passed in 25 states allowing students to bring sunscreen to school
SUPPORTED FEDERAL FUNDING FOR MELANOMA RESEARCH, INCLUDING:
l $20 million for Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Melanoma Research Program (CDMRP) l $2.6 billion research funding increase for National Institutes of Health (NIH) l $296 million for National Cancer Institute (NCI) l $4 million for Centers for Disease
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Control and Prevention (CDC) Skin Cancer Prevention activities
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