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Boston Children's Hospital focuses on pediatric workforce education, public health and medical research policy issues impacting children. In the 118th Congress, we have advocated for the reauthorization of and funding through the appropriations process for the Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education program (CHGME).

Boston Children's Hospital advocates for medical research funding generally (eg NIH) and to assure an emphasis on pediatric research issues and concerns. In the current Congress, we have sought increases in the overall NIH appropriation level, and worked to assure better coordination across NIH institutes for pediatric initiatives. We have focused on issues relevant to the inclusion of children within the All of Us research program, ARPA-H, and the 21st Century Cures 2.0. Our informatics research program has provided information on disease surveillance/pandemic preparedness, health IT and interoperability concerns to Congressional leaders.