Health Priorities

Community health platform

This platform translates lived experience and community health expertise into actionable policy. It centers equity, transparency, and evidence, with a focus on local resilience for GA-01 communities.

Strengthen community health infrastructure and workforce

Increase and protect funding for vital health agencies and programs. Modernize data systems, expand emergency preparedness, and invest in recruitment, retention, and training for a diverse workforce.

  • Stable funding
  • Data modernization
  • Workforce pathways

Uphold and strengthen the Affordable Care Act

Protect essential benefits and further expand access to affordable, high-quality coverage and services, with special focus on rural and underserved communities across Coastal Georgia.

  • Coverage expansion
  • Affordability
  • Rural access

Address the health impact of climate change

Treat climate change as a public health threat. Reduce exposure to extreme heat, flooding, and poor air quality; strengthen disaster readiness; and protect frontline communities.

  • Resilience
  • Clean air and water
  • Coastal protection

Protect access to women’s health and reproductive care

Ensure comprehensive reproductive healthcare—including contraception, maternal care, and safe abortion—so women can make informed decisions and access timely, dignified services.

  • Maternal health
  • Reproductive rights
  • Access and dignity

Pass a long-run Farm Bill to protect nutrition security

Secure and strengthen nutrition assistance programs and invest in local food systems, ensuring families can depend on consistent access to healthy food.

  • SNAP & WIC
  • Food access
  • Local producers

Uphold and strengthen critical public health laws

Defend evidence-based regulations, restore protections rolled back in recent years, and advance transparency and accountability that safeguard community health.

  • Evidenced-based
  • Accountability
  • Restoration

Address the gun violence epidemic

Advance proven strategies: universal background checks, safe storage, community violence intervention, and research-driven policy to reduce injuries and save lives.

  • Safety
  • Prevention
  • Community interventions

Support global health and ending deadly conflicts

Invest in global disease surveillance, pandemic preparedness, humanitarian aid, and diplomacy—because protecting health at home is strengthened by stability abroad.

  • Pandemic readiness
  • Humanitarian aid
  • Diplomacy