Thank you for your support of the Sound Science Saves Lives rally! We are excited to turn the day’s energy into lasting change.

Please reach out to your US Congressional Representatives and Senators and ask them to save science!

You can call, email, and bonus request an inperson meeting because they are home for August Recess.

The basics to any legislator contact is to

1. Find your US House Rep and US Senators here
2. Write them / call them sample ask. It must be one ask and one ask only per communication.
3. Outline of a simple ask
   1. Introduce yourself and your connection to the issue.
   2. Ask them to do something.
   3. Tell a story / personal example.
   4. Thank them for their time.

Find some supporting information via the charts and links below…

The American Physical Society has created specific one-pagers for: Alabama, Alaska, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, and West Virginia. APS also has generic one pagers for the entire US.

• Data from FASEB on federal funding by state
  
• NIH Reporter: All publicly available data relevant to NIH grants
  
• Data from UMR on economic impact of federal biomedical funding by state
  
• CDC Data Project
• Computing Research Association

Get inspired by this letter!

In 2024, my niece was born. About a week after her birth, her newborn screenings came back, and she had tested positive for cystic fibrosis. If she had been born two decades ago, the median life expectancy would have been around 22, and it would have been not just a short life, but a very hard one. If she had been born a decade ago, the life expectancy would have increased to around 30, but it would still have been a rough road. Because of incredible strides in research, however, she now can look forward to a much longer life with a far greater quality. None of this would be possible without funding for research for new therapeutic interventions. She is still at risk for increased hospitalizations, and she will have daily medication and other interventions until a cure is found, something that is on the horizon if research funding continues. And while the CF Foundation is an important source of funding, it cannot fill the gaps left by the proposed cuts in federal funding, including not just the federal research grant landscape, but the pathways for training that the NIH and other federal agencies has historically provided (read the CFF’s perspective about federal funding in their letter). The proposed cuts to the US will hurt my niece’s chances of living to her fullest potential. And she is but one of over 1000 children in the US diagnosed with CF each year. Like many diseases, CF has gone from a death sentence to a manageable diagnosis because of research. It would be criminal to stop that progress in its tracks.

Above from FASEB and UMR: links below

Above from: cra.org/govaffairs/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/11/Tire-Tracks-Diagram-As-of-7-1-16.pdf

Sponsoring Organizations

• • Science for Georgia
  • 50501GA
  • Fired But Fighting
  • Indivisible Georgia Coalition
  • CDC Alumni & Friends
  • STAND
  • Stand Up for Science