IfPA summits gather health policy stakeholders to debate, share, listen, learn and coalesce on the access issues that matter.

Cardiovascular Health Policy Summit

The sixth annual Cardiovascular Health Policy Summit, held on May 22, 2023, welcomed policy
experts, patient advocates and health care providers to discuss policy solutions to improve the lives of cardiovascular patients.

Topics included:

  • Combatting the cholesterol crisis
  • Making hypertension history
  • Utilization management practices
  • Medical innovation

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National Policy & Advocacy Summit on Biologics

The seventh annual National Policy & Advocacy Summit on Biologics brought together health care providers, policy experts, patient advocates and other stakeholders. Speakers and participants explored how the rapidly changing field of biologics can support patient-centered care and optimal health outcomes. This year’s event, which convened both in person and virtually, highlighted issues such as:

  • Biologics’ role in cancer care
  • Social media’s value as a tool for patient education
  • Health disparities
  • How advocacy can positively impact access

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Infant Health Policy Summit

The eighth annual Infant Health Policy Summit welcomed health care providers, parents,
policymakers, advocates and other stakeholders to explore how policy solutions can
improve the health and lives of infants and their families.

This year’s event, held both in-person and virtually, examined issues such as:

  • The Black maternal health crisis
  • RSV preventive interventions
  • Parents as partners in their baby’s care
  • Donor human milk quality and safety
  • Drug, formula and product shortages

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2022 Cardiovascular Health Policy Summit

The fifth annual Cardiovascular Health Policy Summit, held on June 9, welcomed policy
experts, patient advocates and health care providers to address patients’ pressing
needs and explore policy solutions that will improve the lives of Americans with
cardiovascular disease.

This year’s event examined issues such as:

  • Peripheral artery disease in America
  • Utilization management in high-risk populations
  • Non-medical switching in cardiovascular disease
  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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Value of Innovation Policy Forum

On April 28, 2022, the Institute for Patient Access for a policy forum on the value of innovation.

The event featured Keynote Speaker David Heath, author of Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine.

Discussion topics included:

  • Developing medical breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s disease
  • COVID-19 vaccine development
  • Policies that encourage innovation

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National Policy & Advocacy Summit on Biologics

The sixth annual National Policy & Advocacy Summit on Biologics brought together health
care providers, policy experts, patient advocates and other stakeholders. The event explored
how sound public policies can facilitate the expanded use of biologics in patient-centered
care. This year’s event, held virtually, examined issues such as:

  • Innovation and rare disease
  • Current federal and state policy considerations
  • The role of biosimilars in expanding treatment options
  • Insulin affordability and interchangeable biosimilars

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Getting Telehealth Policy Right

Capping a year and a half of explosive growth in telehealth, “Getting Telehealth Policy Right” allowed experts, advocates, patients and providers to explore timely questions of policy, access and balance.


Speakers and panelists discussed issues such as:

  • The use of telehealth for preventive care
  • Balancing virtual and in-person physician visits
  • How telehealth can reduce health care disparities
  • The benefits and drawbacks of on-demand telehealth apps
  • How state and federal policy will shape telehealth moving forward

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Infant Health Policy Summit

The sixth annual Infant Health Policy Summit welcomed health care providers, parents, policymakers, advocates and other stakeholders to explore how policy solutions can improve the health and lives of infants and their families.

This year’s event, held virtually, examined issues such as:

  • The value of safety and innovation for neonates
  • Respiratory syncytial virus and compounding disparities
  • Perspectives from the Asian, Black, Hispanic and LGBTQ communities
  • The long-term effects of separating mothers and babies during COVID-19
  • Nutrition and safety in a growing human donor milk market
  • Newborns and rare diseases

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Cardiovascular Health Policy Summit

The fourth annual Cardiovascular Health Policy Summit welcomed health care providers, policymakers, advocates and other stakeholders to explore how policy solutions can improve the health and lives of Americans living with cardiovascular disease.

This year’s event, held virtually, examined issues such as:

  • Non-medical switching
  • Updating and implementing medical guidelines
  • Medicare part D reform
  • Disparities with peripheral artery disease.

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Seventh Annual Summit on Balanced Pain Management

What if all patients had a pain management approach that allowed them to live full and productive lives? That pivotal question resonated throughout the seventh Summit on Balanced Pain Management, a national policy event exploring patient-centered care for people living with pain.

Led by Mike Walsh of Alliance for Balanced Pain Management and Amanda Conschafter of the Alliance for Patient Access, the summit welcomed health care providers, policy experts, patient advocates and other stakeholders.

This year’s event, held virtually on February 2, 2021, examined:

  • Policy predictions for a new presidential administration
  • COVID-19’s impact on pain management
  • Utilization management barriers
  • Treatment challenges and osteoarthritis
  • Chronic pain and mental health.

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