MAFP Advocacy Blog

On this blog, you’ll find legislative updates, invitations to take action on proposed legislation, advocacy tools, clinical practice resources and family medicine voices.
New Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians President Renée Crichlow, MD, shares about her passion for family medicine and hopes for the Academy over the next year....
Family medicine leaders and advocates from across the nation gathered in D.C. for the 2019 AAFP Family Medicine Advocacy Summit. Residents and medical students, who joined our delegation, share a...
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The legislative session has ended. Read an update on the key issues the MAFP pursued this session, including pharmacy benefit manager regulation, tobacco cessation funding and more....
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As Minnesota legislative session nears an end, the MAFP legislative rep Dave Renner, CAE, provides an update on the bill to license pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)....
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MAFP Executive Vice President Maria Huntley, CAE, MAM, testified to the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board on inclusion of Health Impact Assessments in the environmental review process....