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woRking to mAke ReSeARch to imPRoVe heAlth A higheR nAtionAl PRioRity Annual Report • 2010 The Fourfold Return on 1101 King Street, Suite 520 • Alexandria, VA 22314 Health, P 703-739-2577 • F 703-739-2372 • www.researchamerica.org www.twitter.com/ResearchAmerica • www.researchamerica.org/facebook • www.youtube.com/researchamerica Prosperity, Productivity and U.S. Leadership Table of Contents 2 Research!America Leadership 3 Innovative Advocacy Generating Results for Research 1 2 3 4 Advocacy for Investment in Research 5 Demonstrating Economic Impact 6 Your Candidates Your Health 2010 7 Capitol Hill Outreach and Briefings 8 9 Advocacy for Public and 4 5 6 Global Health Research 10 11 Advocacy Awards 2010 12 13 2010 National Forum: Invest in Tomorrow. Invest in Research. 14 Public Opinion & Communicating the Returns on Research 15 2010 Financial 8 9 Highlights, Scientific Advisory Committee and Research!America Staff 16 Major Donors 2010 7 17 20 Members 2010 Research!America is the nation’s largest 501(c)(3) alliance working to make 10 11 research to improve health a higher national priority. Research!America’s member organizations together represent the voices of more than 125 million Americans. Our public opinion data, advocacy programs and publications reach the public and decision makers to help advance medical, health and scientific research. 12 13 1. Mary Woolley and Hans Bergström 2. Jennifer Howse, PhD; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt 3. Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD 4. Isadore Rosenfeld, MD 5. Ekopimo Ibia, MD, MPH and Carol Kennedy 14 6. Robert Mahley, MD, PhD 7. Mary Woolley 8. Anna Nilsson Vindefjärd, PhD 9. The Hon. David Obey 10. John Seffrin, PhD; Frank Lichtenberg, PhD; The Hon. John Edward Porter 11. Reed Tuckson, MD 12. Georges C. Benjamin, MD 13. Ann Lurie 14. Debra Lappin, JD, and 15 Jay Gershen, DDS, PhD 15. Richard Lewis; Judith Barnes Lancaster, JD; Susan Rodger; and Steven Schmidt, PhD 16. Larry Shapiro, MD; Tenley Albright, MD 16 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 by M. Gatty/ DCEventPhotos.com The Fourfold Return on Research n Health, Prosperity, Productivity and U.S. Leadership At a time when the return on all investment is scrutinized and funding from both the public and private sectors is in short supply, research to improve health has never seen greater challenges—and yet has never had a stronger story to tell. The returns on America’s investment in research continue to contribute to our economic growth and leadership far beyond the value of the investment itself. We see the dividends in longer, healthier lives; in greater prosperity through the creation of well-paying, knowledge-based jobs; in productivity gains from a healthier work- M. Gatty/DCEventPhotos.com Photos: force; and in continued U.S. leadership in science, innovation and overall economic strength. Members of Congress have participated in one of our constituent education initiatives. We continue to work to make research a higher But none of these returns is guaranteed. priority among the 112th Congress, through Your Congress–Your Health, asking Members to go on the record with their views about research The recession has affected all sectors that support and conduct research and related issues. —and has created competing budgetary priorities. For these reasons Research!America redoubled efforts in 2010 to amplify the national In 2010, Research!America’s leadership received an unprecedented conversation around research, identifying it as an investment priority. number of invitations to speak about research and advocacy before scientific and non-scientific audiences. We hosted high-levela media In 2010, Research!America held dozens of congressional meetings, luncheon in New York, bringing together major news editors and issued nearly 30 alerts to our grassroots network and continued to experts from all sectors of research for a dynamic discussion. We held take the pulse of public opinion, gauging Americans’ attitudes the first in a series of thought-leader gatherings on the economic towards research and related issues. Research!America and our partners impact of global health research at the state level. We also increased hosted well-attended Capitol Hill briefingson the importance of our online visibility, using social media to reach new audiences and basic research, of investing in early-career scientists, on the value of drive engagement. U.S. investment in global health research, and other timely topics. Through all of these endeavors Research!America hit home the message Our award-winning voter education initiative, Your Candidates–Your that research is vital not only for our health and quality of life, but Health, worked to make research a higher priority for congressional also for our economy, our productivity and for American jobs. candidates in the 2010 elections. As of early 2011, nearly 175 current We are extremely grateful for the support of our valued members, partners and contributors. Your commitment to Research!America makes our alliance the effective and respected organization that it is. But we know we have difficult work ahead to ensure that research has what it needs to succeed. We are more energized and determined than ever to build on our momentum in 2011. Please join us as an active advocate for research for health and help us ensure the future of this powerful investment. The Honorable John Edward Porter Chair Mary Woolley President and CEO Research!America • Annual Report 2010 1 OFFICERS Research!America Leadership BOard MeMBERS Tenley E. Albright, MD Elizabeth Baker Keffer Ellen Sigal, PhD Director, Collaborative Initiatives *Hon. John Edward Porter, Chair President, Atlantic LIVE Chairperson and Founder Massachusetts Institute of Vice President, The Atlantic Friends of Cancer Research Partner, Hogan Lovells Technology U.S. Representative, 1980-2001 Debra R. Lappin, JD Laing Rogers Sisto Dennis A. Ausiello, MD Senior Vice President Community Leader Chairman, Department of B&D Consulting, LLC Medicine Hon. Billy Tauzin Massachusetts General Hospital *Alan I. Leshner, PhD, CEO President and CEO Jackson Professor of Clinical American Association for the Tauzin Strategic Networks Medicine Advancement of Science U.S. Representative, 1980-2005 Harvard Medical School Executive Publisher, Science Christopher A. Viehbacher Susan Dentzer, Editor in Chief Lucinda Maine, PhD, RPh CEO Health Affairs Executive Vice President & CEO sanofi-aventis American Association of John T. Watters, MD Victor J. Dzau, MD Colleges of Pharmacy Chancellor for Health Affairs Vice President for External *Martha N. Hill, PhD, RN Mark McClellan, MD, PhD Medical Affairs Vice Chair Duke University President and CEO Director, Engelberg Center for Pfizer Inc Dean, School of Nursing Health Care Reform; Senior Johns Hopkins University Duke University Health System Judy Woodruff Fellow, Economic Studies; Senior Correspondent and *Jay A. Gershen, DDS, PhD Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in President, Northeastern Ohio Political Editor Health Policy Studies; PBS NewsHour Universities Colleges of Brookings Medicine and Pharmacy Elias A. Zerhouni, MD *Herbert Pardes, MD *Harry Johns, President and President, Global Research President and CEO & Development Chief Executive Officer NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Alzheimer’s Association sanofi-aventis John R. Seffrin, PhD, CEO Former Director Jackie Lovelace Johnson American Cancer Society National Institutes of Health, Chair of the Board 2002-2008 Lovelace Respiratory Research Larry J. Shapiro, MD *Mary Woolley, President Institute Executive Vice Chancellor CEO, Research!America for Medical Affairs and Dean *Evan Jones, Managing Member School of Medicine jVen Capital Washington University in *Executive Committee Member St. Louis Honorary Director EMERITUS Directors Donnica L. Moore, MD C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD William G. Anlyan, MD James E. Mulvihill, DMD Former Surgeon General, Kenneth I. Berns, MD, PhD William D. Novelli United States Public Health William R. Brinkley, PhD William A. Peck, MD Service Roger J. Bulger, MD Edward E. Penhoet, PhD G. Steven Burrill William L. Roper, MD, MPH *Georges C. Benjamin, MD Gail H. Cassell, PhD Leon E. Rosenberg, MD Secretary Wendy Chaite, Esq. Isadore Rosenfeld, MD Executive Director, American Jordan J. Cohen, MD Raymond R. Sackler, MD Public Health Association Dominick P. DePaola, DDS, PhD Charles A. Sanders, MD Sam Donaldson Mitchel Sayare, PhD John P. Donnelly Carol R. Scheman Robert Dresing M. Roy Schwarz, MD Eugene Garfield, PhD Susan C. Scrimshaw, PhD Myron Genel, MD Randolph Siegel Irma E. Goertzen Samuel C. Silverstein, MD M.R.C. Greenwood, PhD Hon. Louis Stokes Elmer E. Huerta, MD, MPH Hon. Louis W. Sullivan, MD Robert A. Ingram Reed V. Tuckson, MD Caroline A. Kovac, PhD Alan G. Walton, DSc, PhD *Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD Philip R. Lee, MD M. Cass Wheeler Treasurer Ellen Levine John Whitehead President and Scientific Director Constance E. Lieber Phillip L. Williams Children’s Memorial Research John P. Margaritis Ruth Wooden Center, Chicago Jewell Jackson McCabe James B. Wyngaarden, MD Catherine E. McDermott 2 Research!America • Annual Report 2010 Innovative Advocacy Generating Results for Research n Leading Alliance of Medical and Health Research Stakeholders Research!America is the nation’s ing that research is understood by data on Americans’ opinions largest, most respected alliance policy makers to be part of the on medical, health and scientific working to make research to solution to our nation’s economic research and a range of related improve health a higher national