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MediaBest Education Reads of 2011 Check out our suggestions for the best ed reads of 2011! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terrell-halaska/the-great-education-reads_b_1145600.html A Panel about Getting Back to Basics: Patient Activism Thirty Years after HIV/AIDS In June, HCM and Fastercures released a report entitled "Back to Basics: HIV/AIDS Advocacy as a Model for Catalyzing Change." The report notes that HIV/AIDS activists' advocacy model has the potential to help millions more, across diseases and issues, by creating a roadmap for catalyzing significant public policy change. It urges all advocates to get smart, adjust the strategy as needed, hold people accountable and learn from the legacy these activists left behind. As a follow up to the report, HCM founding partner, Michael Manganiello, participated in a panel discussion at this year's Partnering for Cures conference in New York. The panel, "Back to Basics: Patient Activism Thirty Years after HIV/AIDS" examined how today's advocacy community can apply lessons learned from the HIV/AIDS movement to effect change in the medical research paradigm. Click here to view the panel video.
Confused Over Accountability and Flexibility - Schools That Soften Their Standards Do a Disservice to Their Students As Congress debates NCLB reauthorization and states seek federal waivers to avoid NCLB sanctions for missing proficiency targets, Terrell Halaska, HCM's founding partner, and Martha Snyder, an associate at HCM, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Times exploring the potentially dangerous impact that "flexibility" can have on accountability. They ask if accountability and flexibility can and should coexist, especially in an environment where states are trying to meet existing requirements around Common Core and Race to the Top. They also ask - who is being served by flexibility and accountability proposals - systems or students? To read the full op-ed, click here. Wake Up Rip Van Winkle, the College Demographic Revolution Is Upon Us The Huffington Post
About once every decade an education report is released that delivers new information so arresting and critically important to the challenges of its time that it compels action. Complete College America's "Time is the Enemy: the surprising truth about why today's college students aren’t graduating," released today as part of NBC's Education Nation, is such a report. To view the full op-ed, click here. HIV/AIDS Activism Presents Today's Medical Research Advocates with Model for Catalyzing Change "Back to Basics" Report Points to Elements of the Movement that Fundamentally Changed the Medical Research Paradigm June 16, 2011 (WASHINGTON) - Thirty years after the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, a new report released today examines how HIV/AIDS advocacy redefined patient engagement in the medical research process, and changed the drug development paradigm. Co-authored by FasterCures, a nonprofit research advocacy organization, and HCM Strategists, a health and education public policy firm, it offers key lessons for today's advocacy community. The report, Back to Basics: HIV/AIDS Advocacy as a Model for Catalyzing Change, highlights how people affected by HIV rallied together and created an advocacy movement that demanded change and got results. The milestones of this movement include transforming the research system through patient-driven clinical trials, improving the regulatory paradigm through expanded and accelerated access mechanisms, and garnering political will needed to support federal investment in research and care. Ultimately, its most significant accomplishment was transforming HIV/AIDS from a death sentence to a chronic, manageable illness as long as access to medicines following diagnosis is assured. "Today's advocates have much to learn from HIV/AIDS activists' successes. They taught us that it's about adding value through meaningful solutions, and being ready to be a real partner in implementing those solutions," said Margaret Anderson, executive director of FasterCures, and co-author of the report. "We found that this model of advocacy when taken as a whole and adapted to our current environment, can be as powerful and effective now as it was in the mid-1980s and early 1990s." Back to Basics lays out the elements of the HIV/AIDS model from the perspective of those interviewed - the activists who led the effort, the scientists responsible for directing the research, and the federal officials and policymakers who implemented the changes. These elements include getting attention, having the knowledge and proposing solutions, building a community, ensuring accountability, and having leadership. "History shows us that the direct action of HIV/AIDS activists helped to change public opinion and create the political will to transform policies," said Michael Manganiello, a partner at HCM Strategists, and co-author of the report. "As a man who has been living with HIV for 25 years, it is clear that I and hundreds of thousands of others would not be alive today without constant pressure being applied to policymakers, the public, industry, and the medical research community." The report notes that HIV/AIDS activists' advocacy model has the potential to help millions more, across diseases and issues, by creating a roadmap for catalyzing significant public policy change. It urges all advocates to get smart, adjust the strategy as needed, hold people accountable, and learn from the legacy these activists left behind. A copy of the report can be downloaded here. About FasterCures FasterCures is not just our name - it's our mission. We are an "action tank" that works to improve the medical research system- so that we can speed up the time it takes to get important new medicines from discovery to patients. We work to clear the path to faster progress by educating stakeholders about the barriers, and by overcoming them through action. We firmly believe that each life saved by preventing disease and developing new cures is priceless. FasterCures, the Milken Institute's Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions, is nonpartisan and not affiliated with interest groups. For more information, visit www.fastercures.org. About HCM Strategists Nonprofits, businesses, foundations, and public agencies have great ideas for creating public policies that improve health and education at the local, state, and federal levels. At HCM Strategists, we combine proven expertise and creativity to make those public policies a reality. HCM Strategists has the privilege of working with forward-thinking leaders who are forging new connections and pioneering strategies to take innovative health and education solutions farther, faster. For more information, visit www.hcmstrategists.com. To view related articles and news stories pertaining to the report, see below: Report Outlines Lessons from AIDS Advocates. An article in the Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report. Read the Kaiser Health News article. Learning from the HIV/AIDS Advocacy Movement. An article in the Research!America Blog. Read the Research!America blog post. Lessons from HIV/AIDS Advocacy. A mention and link to the report in Politico's Afternoon Pulse. Read the Afternoon Pulse mention. Lessons from AIDS/HIV Advocacy Efforts. An article in the Wall Street Journal by Amy Dockser Marcus. Read the Wall Street Journal article.
A Lost Generation. Thirty years after the first AIDS patient was diagnosed, Washingtonians remember the early years, the impact of the disease, and the state of HIV/AIDS in DC.
Are you treating education and health as if your life depends on it? An article in GOOD magazine by the founding partners of HCM. There is a better way to faster cures. An article by Michael Manganiello and Terrell Halaska, featured in Politico. Increase college completion rates: The next step for policymakers by Kristin Conklin and Terrell Halaska. HCM Strategists client, the National Math and Science Initiative, is highlighted by the President How to Do More With Less—An article on the Lumina Productivity Initiative Read the Inside Higher Ed article Ohio College Grads To Be Tracked For Study—An article on Ohio's grant through the Lumina Productivity Initiative quotes Kristin Conklin Schools Could Take Budget Hit—An article on Texas' grant through the Lumina Productivity Initiative quotes Kristin Conklin Calling the 'Inertia Busters' by Kristin Conklin and Suzanne Walsh Read the Inside Higher Ed article The Solution to AIDS: It's Only Going to Happen if Everyone is at the Table by Michael Manganiello Getting at a Real College Cost Driver: Health Care by Terrell Halaska and Kristin Conklin Performance Funding 2.0—An article on the Lumina Productivity Initiative Higher Education: Take a Lesson from Health Care by Terrell Halaska and Michael Manganiello HCM Strategists Wins Education Policy Grant Work on the America COMPETES Act has led to more challenging math and science classes and the training of more math and science teachers. Big debut bash for HCM Strategists New Firm on the Block
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