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To raise and respond to ethical issues in health and healthcare.

The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation is a trusted source of research demonstrating how pharmacists can improve health care. For over 60 years, we have consistently proven that patient health outcomes are positively impacted by pharmacists. Our mission is to improve health by inspiring philanthropy, research and innovation that advances pharmacists’ patient care services. The APhA Foundation looks to create a new medication use system where patients, pharmacists, physicians and other health care professionals collaborate to dramatically improve the cost effectiveness and quality of patient health outcomes.

Forward Together unites communities to win rights, recognition and resources for all families.We transform culture and policy to work for all of us nationwide. Since our founding in 1989, we have continually fought to dismantle the ways our society marginalizes us based on race, sexuality, and gender. Today, we build courage and foster connection among our multi-racial community of changemakers to secure the rights, recognition and resources all families need to thrive.

Improving the lives of families through child care services, research and advocacy.

Prevention Institute was founded in 1997 to address complex health and social issues. We move beyond approaches that target individuals, one person at a time, to create systematic, comprehensive strategies that change the conditions that impact community health. The organization builds on the successes of a variety of fields and applies them to new challenges in fields such as injury and violence prevention, traffic safety, health disparities, nutrition and physical activity, and youth development.

The Schreiber Research Group (TSRG) is dedicated to solving complex problems to improve community health through research and evaluation that enhances public health policy and management.

Since 1981, the John Wayne name has been committed by the Wayne family to groundbreaking cancer research and education in memory of their father who died of cancer. The John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John's Health Center is a cancer research institute dedicated to the understanding and curing of cancer in order to eliminate patient suffering worldwide. Our mission is accomplished through innovative clinical and laboratory research and the education of the next generation of surgical oncologists and scientists. In fulfilling its mission, the John Wayne Cancer Institute: * Conducts innovative research focusing on biological mechanisms to provide new understandings of the cause, diagnosis, control, and cure of cancer. * Provides training for new generations of surgical scientists who study and treat cancer. * Offers unique experimental treatment services to rapidly develop and test new forms of diagnosis and therapy in order to improve the quality of life and expected survival of those afflicted with cancer. The Institute has received worldwide acclaim for advances in melanoma (skin cancer), breast and colon cancer as well as immune therapy of cancer. Other areas of research include prostate and liver cancer. At JWCI, the close relationship between research and clinical care, combined with the multidisciplinary expertise of our specialists, produces the best science, the best medicine, and the greatest hope for our patients.

To generate the resources to find a cure, to create awareness and to improve the quality of life for those affected by Charcot-Marie-Tooth.

The Medicare Rights Center is a national, nonprofit consumer service organization that works to ensure access to affordable health care for older adults and people with disabilities through counseling and advocacy, educational programs, and public policy initiatives. 

smashSMARD is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to increase awareness of SMARD1 and the IGHMBP2 gene mutation in order to fund research that will lead to treatments and cures.

To ensure that everyone has access to quality, affordable health care regardless of health status, social need or income.

To accelerate scientific discovery by supporting, uniting, advancing and catalyzing research endeavors at the University of Kansas Medical Center.