The Kellogg Health Scholars Program has formed affiliations with policy development and advocacy organizations, including those listed below, each of which highlights the reduction and elimination of health disparities in its agenda. Individual training sites will also establish affiliations with state-based health policy development and advocacy organizations in their own states.

Throughout their traineeships and subsequently, Scholars will have access to both federal level and state and local level policy organizations affiliated with the Program and the training sites. This bi-level set of relationships will enable Scholars to understand the relevance of their research to local policy as well as its translation into macro policy at the federal lever. Twice a year all Scholars will participate in a joint workshop at which policy and practice experts from the affiliated policy development/advocacy organizations, public health agencies and community leaders (including the Program’s National Advisory Committee will share their expertise with the scholars and the Scholars will share their work with each other and with the Program’s National Advisory Committee.

• America’s Health Together
• Congressional Asian and Pacific Islander Caucus
• Congressional Black Caucus Health Brain Trust
• Congressional Hispanic Caucus
• Families USA
• Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
• National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
• National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
• National Center for Health Behavioral Change
• National State Legislators
• Physicians for Human Rights
• Physicians for Social Responsibility
• PolicyLink
• Poverty & Race Action Council
• The Opportunity Agenda
• The Praxis Project