Unprecedented, turbulent, unparalleled. These are all adjectives that are used to describe the challenges impacting public health and psychiatry daily. Watching the attacks on evidence-based care unfold since early 2025, AAPP has been engaged in efforts to state our core advocacy beliefs with the goal to:
- Communicate our positions to the membership
- Have documents in place to respond to federal actions and continuously reinforce the evidence
- Provide tools for AAPP members and grassroots campaigns
Our newly launched, member-protected Policy Statements and Briefs webpage details AAPP’s stance on over 35 topics surrounding access to care, gold standard treatments, and needed policies. These policy statements are further supported by our advocacy fact sheets and NEW policy briefs. Currently, seven policy briefs have been authored to reinforce the evidence surrounding gold standard treatments such as harm reduction, SSRI use in pregnancy, antidepressant use in youth with depression, and more. We encourage you to review, use, and provide feedback on these new tools directly from this new webpage. Please submit your thoughts on additional priorities for new statements and briefs at this same webpage.
Congratulations as well to the members named to the slate for potential service on the 2026-2028 AAPP Board of Directors. Julie Cunningham and Michael McGuire have been named to the President-Elect slate while Austin Campbell, Samantha Catanzano, Bethany DiPaula, and Kelly Lee are among your choices for 2 member-at-large positions. If you are a pharmacist member (non-resident), it is your privilege and opportunity to cast your ballot for these 3 Board positions on or before September 17. All these candidates are highly qualified and would do an excellent job leading AAPP during these changing times.
A reminder that the AAPP Board is available and accessible to you via board@aapp.org or through direct outreach to Executive Director Brenda Schimenti at bschimenti@aapp.org. Your feedback, engagement, and volunteerism are critical to our success.