2026 Advocacy Priorities
- Public & Population Health Alignment
- Strengthen Delaware’s public health infrastructure and workforce;
- Work to legislate community health worker work and repayment;
- Work to strengthen rural healthcare workforce and infrastructure;
- Assess gaps in population health and align needs;
- Map the DE public health landscape.
- At the Federal Level
- Assess the availability of health data and provide information for gaps;
- Advocate for Vaccine schedules that follow the science.
- Maintain or improve the immunization rates of children, adolescents, and adults in Delaware;
- Strengthen and uphold public health laws;
- Strengthen Delaware’s public health infrastructure and workforce;
- Overall Advocacy & Education
- Access
- Equal access to quality and affordable health care and services
- Environmental
- Health impacts of climate change in Delaware;
- Cumulative impacts of environmental pollution;
- Evidence-based firearm safety laws in Delaware;
- Reducing and eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries;
- Availability of affordable housing and reducing homelessness;
- Health
- Protect access to reproductive health care in Delaware;
- Death with dignity legislation;
- Mitigating the effects of opioid use and decreasing opioid overdoses and deaths in the State;
- Gender affirming care – provision of care in Delaware area, accessing ongoing treatment (impact of funding from federal government).
- Food Insecurity
- Monitoring food insecurity in the state;
- Universal free meals for students;
- Decreasing food deserts;
- Increasing procurement of Delaware-grown foods;
- Access