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Write your Legislators! Template that you can click & send. Customize with YOUR compelling personal stories!

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5 Calls-Learn HOW To Contact Your Policy Makers

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5 Calls-Learn HOW To Contact Your Policy Makers

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Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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Share your personal and/or patient stories!

Give your feedback.

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E1: American Association for Cancer Research 

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E1: American Association for Cancer Research 

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Poll that shows voters strongly support government funding for medical research especially cancer research.

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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

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AACR Calls on Congress to Once Again Summarily Reject the President’s Budget Proposal for NIH

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The AACR is calling on Congress to stand up in unified opposition to the President’s FY 2027 budget request for the NIH.

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The American Academy of Pediatrics advances key child health priorities through lobbying Congress, building coalitions and raising public awareness.

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Database of aspiration/ingestion events reported by healthcare professionals

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The Global Injury Research Collaborative (GIRC) was founded in August 2019, as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The founders of the organization are engineering and medical professionals who are truly committed to the prevention of future injuries that occur to patients of all age ranges.

Our primary goal is to collect pertinent, non-identified data, to be compliant with current HIPAA standards, in order to allow worldwide data collection across all health systems. There is currently no existing mechanism for medical professionals to contribute their patients' injuries in a simple but useful way to benefit others in the future.

Those who care for patients suffering aspiration or ingestion events - or any foreign body injury, will have a simple, effective way to report cases using the free mobile app, publicly available for iPhone on the App Store, and Android on Google Play. Search "GIRC App" to download and register.

The apps gather data from medical professionals all over the world that is then analyzed to help prevent future injuries. Unfortunately, patients too frequently suffer serious injuries that can be prevented, and this critical data is necessary to drive changes across industry, government, and the medical care provided.

The GIRC believes making decisions is best done with data. All too often, available data is deemed limited. We've made the choice to do the right thing and collect the data that's hard to get so countless others can make the best choices.

The GIRC differentiates its data in several ways:

The data is truly global, there are no limits or boundaries regarding which medical professionals can contribute from where. The data source is verified and educated on how to populate raw data to ensure precision and accuracy in every submission.

The data contains engineering insights that help create not just injury and hazard trends, but factors that combat anecdote across multiple levels of industry, research, and medical practice.

Pictures say a 1,000 words, and we collect three of them. The product pictures are instantly uploaded and allow us to collect additional parameters that are difficult to capture in text or questionnaires.

Data collection is focused on all injuries, and is not limited to physical goods. The GIRC is proud to feature insights into button batteries, food related choking, pet products*, eye damage*, and even pulmonary vaping* related incidents.
(*custom interface coming soon.)

Collecting data from the basement of a hospital has never been easier. Data collection takes less than two minutes and is done via mobile device. Even if you're off Wi-Fi or mobile data, any inputs will be pushed to the database as soon as connection is gained.

Zero delay. As soon as the data is inputted, it is available. A successful removal procedure can be shared globally, instantly. A viral trend in product markets can be observed and provided to organizations and medical professionals immediately.

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The Global Injury Research Collaborative (GIRC) was founded in August 2019, as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The founders of the organization are engineering and medical professionals who are truly committed to the prevention of future injuries that occur to patients of all age ranges.

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March 2026: A historic ruling that blocks implementation of a federal childhood immunization schedule while an AAP lawsuit proceeds is a win for child health. -AAP

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Why this matters & Potential Impact

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E1: Dr. Andrea Hayes Dixon, Howard University Profile

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E1: Dr. Andrea Hayes Dixon, Howard University Profile

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E1: NIH pivots away from agency directed science

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E1: NIH pivots away from agency directed science

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NIH pivots away from agency-directed science

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US biomedical funding behemoth says the approach will boost innovation, but some researchers worry that under-studied areas of science will suffer.

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E1: Dr. Andrea Hayes Dixon in local news

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E1: Dr. Andrea Hayes Dixon in local news

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- For years, Dr. Andrea Hayes-Jordan was the only person in the world performing a surgery to save children with a rare cancer.

In June, Hayes-Jordan joined UNC Children's Hospital to head pediatric surgery.

"These kids with cancer are amazing. They enjoy every moment. They're always happy. You wouldn't know that they'd been through chemo for months and years," she said. "I really believe God put me here to do this."

Hayes-Jordan knew her calling at a young age.

"My mother tells me that from the time I could talk I wanted to become a doctor, and specifically a baby doctor," she said.

The Los Angeles native excelled in college and medical school at Dartmouth College. It was when she decided to focus on pediatric surgery that she was met with rejection.

"I applied the first time and I did not get in. I applied the second time and did not get in," Hayes-Jordan said.

After the third time, her mentor stepped in.

"And said, 'hey she's very qualified, she's wonderful, why haven't you accepted her?' And one of the surgeons said, 'We just can't take a chance on a black woman,'" Hayes-Jordan said. "In 1998, you wouldn't expect that there were no black female pediatric surgeons in the United States. So, this was quite a hurdle to clear."

Ultimately, she went to a training program in Toronto, and in 2002, she became the first black, female, board-certified pediatric surgeon in the U.S.

She started at St. Jude's Hospital working with children with cancer and then narrowed her focus to a specific cancer that affects the abdomen.

The survival rate for this type of cancer was 15 percent at the time.

"I had to go out and talk to those parents and tell them there was nothing we could do for that child," Hayes-Jordan said.

Married and a young mother herself at the time, she said she felt moved to try a new procedure.

"Even though I wasn't sure of the effectiveness, I was sure that doing nothing wasn't going to make anything better," she said.

Hayes-Jordan became the first surgeon in the world to attempt an exhausting procedure to physically remove hundreds of tumors from a child's abdomen.

"It takes 10-14 hours, sometimes 20 hours. The longest operation I've done is 22 hours. That individual had over 2,000 tumors," she said.

After removal, she washes the abdomen in very hot chemotherapy to kill what's left behind. The procedure worked.

"I still keep in touch with the first patient that we saved. And he's now in college," Hayes-Jordan said.

The survival rate went from 15 percent to 60 to 70 percent.

For several years, Hayes-Jordan was the only surgeon capable of doing the procedure. Patients from around the world traveled to see her in Houston before she was at UNC.

At UNC, Hayes-Jordan hopes to train more surgeons on the procedure and spend time researching what causes the disease.

When asked how many children she's saved Hayes-Jordan says:

"I didn't save the child. God has saved the child, and God is continuing to use me to understand this disease. And we still have a long way to go."

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'God put me here to do this': Pioneering pediatric surgeon hopes to train others at UNC on life-saving procedure :: WRAL.com

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For years, Dr. Andrea Hayes-Jordan was the only person in the world performing a surgery to save children with a rare cancer. In June, Hayes-Jordan joined UNC Children's Hospital to head pediatric surgery. "These kids with cancer are amazing. They enjoy every moment. They're always happy.

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E1: Dr. Andrea Hayes Dixon, Dartmouth Medicine 

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E1: Dr. Andrea Hayes Dixon, Dartmouth Medicine 

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Visit our advocacy section to learn about policy priorities, then use our resources to act on legislation that's important to you and your patients.

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High powered magnets. APSA Health Policy & Advocacy committee participated in letter writing campaign and shared patient stories to support policy change

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High-powered magnets are a safety risk to children — toddler through teen. Injuries due to ingestion and inhalation are increasing, serious and sometimes fatal.

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September 12, 2025 webinar on Medicaid policy changes and the impact to pediatric surgery. Guest speaker Dr. Leo Cuello; Georgetown Center for Children & Families

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Guns Remain Leading Cause of Death for Children and Teens | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Center for Gun Violence Solutions latest annual report highlights CDC 2022 firearm deaths, with focus on young people and people of color

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Find your U.S. Senator https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Find your U.S. Representative

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Lookup addresses and phone numbers to make your voice heard by policy makers.

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Find and contact elected officials | USAGov

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Use USAGov's Contact Your Elected Officials tool to get contact information for your members of Congress, the president, and state and local officials.

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Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) is safe in children with DSRCT. It may prolong disease-free survival.