Science Government Relations Office
The APA Science Policy Office advocates in multiple areas to influence policy decisions that advance and preserve the infrastructure of psychological science. One of our primary goals is to educate and empower APA members and psychologists to advocate for the discipline.
Key Policy Areas
- Peer Review
- Federal Research Spending
- Substance Abuse
- Military Service Members, Veterans, and Their Families
News & Events
- APA Federal Budget Blog
- NIH delays draft plan for reorganizing addictions research
- APA and Friends of NIDA hold congressional briefing on marijuana research
- NIH task force begins planning for new addictions institute
- National Science Foundation: New director, new directions, new challenges
- NIH moves toward creation of a new addictions institute
- Behavior change research highlighted at first PCORI board meeting
- Congress will wait to decide on science funding
- APA’s Breckler testifies on public access to congressional panel
- APA’s Science Fellow placed at NIH for the year
Resources
Letter from 41 Senators Supporting Continued Funding for NIH (PDF, 337KB)
NIAAA Meeting Transcript - Thursday, June 9, 2011 (PDF, 145KB)
APA Response to Research Training from NIGMS (PDF, 44KB)
Responding to Attacks on Your Research (PDF, 228KB)
Advocacy Efforts
- Friends of NICHD Written Testimony: Fiscal Year 2012 Appropriations for NIH and NICHD
- Congressional briefing: "The Genetics of Drug Abuse and Addiction."
- APA responds to Congressional efforts to make NIH's public access policy mandatory.
- Written Testimony: Fiscal Year 2011 Appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs