Join Our Next CPAN Advocacy Chat: State Policy Trends Shaping Patient Care in 2025

Petitioning state lawmakers and regulators is the bedrock of protecting access to local, affordable, and high-quality cancer care. These policymakers live in and are familiar with your communities, so maintaining a relationship with them is important as an advocate.

On Wednesday, April 9, 2025, at 12 p.m. ET, the COA Patient Advocacy Network (CPAN) will teach viewers how to create and maintain a relationship with the lawmakers that are closest to your community. COA’s Director of Patient Advocacy and Education and CPAN host, Rose Gerber, MS, and COA’s Director of State and Policy James Lee will lead the April Advocacy Chat, exploring the growing importance of state level advocacy. They will talk about current issues being explored at the state level, like PBM reform, effective ways to establish working relationships with elected officials, and ways you can get involved with advocacy efforts at COA.

This event is part of our virtual CPAN Advocacy Chats series – short, monthly educational webinars on key cancer issues and the policies that impact them. Each month features a new topic and special guest joining us. Patients, survivors, caregivers, and other cancer care advocates are all invited to join us for these free, interactive, virtual events!