Advocacy

“My grandma played a pivotal role in my decision to pursue health advocacy. As a public health professional, I am dedicated to raising awareness around the importance of doing more intentional outreach, education and research with linguistically and ethnically diverse communities to achieve health equity and improve polices that benefit all community members.”

Donald Melillo participated in the evaluation of research applications submitted to the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program's (CDMRP) Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP).

Carley Vogel talks about her participation in Hill Week with ALF, and asks that you reach out to lawmakers to ask for prioritized funding and research for liver disease.

John Donlon, a self-described, “ordinary Joe” who didn’t play sports in college, is doing something fewer than 1,700 people have ever done – swim the English Channel.

I don’t have a liver condition nor does anyone in my family, but I know the pain and worry a family can feel if they have a loved one with liver disease.

My name is Carolyn Evans and I was diagnosed with Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) in 1992.

At age 14 Martha Shea walked the one and a half mile from her house to Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London Connecticut and became a volunteer. She hasn’t stopped volunteering since.

New York Times best-selling author Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project, Happier at Home and the newly released Better Than Before is one face impacted by liver disease.