The AAMC joined 410 national, state, and local medical, public health, and research organizations in a May 18 letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leadership (PDF) requesting fiscal year (FY) 2027 funding of $35 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), $25 million for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and $1 million for the National Institute of Justice to support public health research on preventing firearm-related injury and death.
The letter also thanked Congress for providing $12.5 million each to the CDC and NIH for gun violence prevention research in FY 2026 and urged lawmakers to maintain and build on this funding in FY 2027.
The House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, which determines funding levels for the CDC and the NIH, is scheduled to mark up its FY 2027 bill on June 5.
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