Consistent with our mission, we are asking Congress, the Administration, and state legislatures to support medical research to find cures for IBD, and to improve patient access to care. Below are our legislative priorities. Where appropriate, we indicate federal bills and provide links where you can learn more about state-based legislation. Speak out to help improve research funding and patient care nationwide. Together, we can make a difference.
Access to Care
Medical Research
Minorities are underrepresented in most clinical trials - this creates a line of disconnect and skewed information regarding ethnic/racial responses to medication and treatments.
Participants in clinical trials should represent the patients that will use the medical products. This is often not the case--racial and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in clinical research. This is a concern because people of different ages, races, and ethnicities, may react differently to medical products. We are committed to working with companies to change this.
Thu, Oct 28
|This will take place via Zoom
Together-IBD: Doing Digestive Diseases Together
Together-IBD is support for the IBS/IBD community, focused on black/brown patients - the only one of its kind.
Time & Location
Oct 28, 2021, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
This will take place via Zoom
About the event
"Social relationships - both quantity and quality - affect mental heath, health behavior, physical health, and mortality risk."
With Together-IBD, we are opening an opportunity for patients to discuss how they feel and what they are going through in this journey of battling digestive diseases. This group has limited space. Each group is led by a licensed professional.