Supporting Organizations

The American Public Health Association is the oldest, largest and most diverse organization of public health professionals in the world and has been working to improve public health since 1872. The Association aims to protect all Americans and their communities from preventable, serious health threats and strives to assure community-based health promotion and disease prevention activities and preventive health services are universally accessible in the United States. APHA represents a broad array of health professionals and others who care about their own health and the health of their communities.

For more information, visit www.apha.org/.

MichBio is the biosciences industry trade association and the official Michigan affiliate of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, BIO, which represents biotechnology companies across America and in 33 other nations. Formed in 1993 as the Michigan Biosciences Industry Association, MichBio is headquartered in Ann Arbor. MichBio promotes cooperation between Michigan’s bioscience-related businesses, forges stronger relationships, develops business-to-business opportunities, and serves as a united industry voice to improve the overall science-friendly environment for attracting and founding new business.

For more information, visit www.michbio.org/.

Research!America is the nation's largest not-for-profit public education and advocacy alliance. Since 1989, we have been committed to making research to improve health a higher national priority. Together, with more than 500 member organizations, representing a vast array of medical, health and scientific fields, we aim to achieve four important goals for medical and health research, including achieving funding from the public and private sectors, better inform the public and institutions that perform research, motivate public support, and promote and empower a more active public and political life by individual members of the research community.

For more information, visit www.researchamerica.org/.