Saturday Keynote: Navigating the Health Policy Landscape: Challenges and Opportunities-Saturday Keynote: Navigating the Health Policy Landscape: Challenges and Opportunities

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The virtual DO Day 2025 conference commenced with Colleen Murray-Payton as the virtual emcee, highlighting the mission to enhance leadership skills and advocate for important healthcare issues with Congress. The conference featured prominent figures, including Teresa Hupka, DO, President of the American Osteopathic Association, and keynote speaker Dr. Lina Nguyen, a leading public health executive and former Baltimore Health Commissioner. Dr. Nguyen elaborated on her path to medicine, influenced by personal experiences with health disparities and asthma, and emphasized the importance of advocacy in addressing social determinants of health.<br /><br />Dr. Nguyen shared eight advocacy tips based on her experiences, stressing the importance of prioritizing issues, leveraging the power of collective voices, creating local connections, storytelling, pairing narratives with data, making healthcare issues relatable to legislators, finding common ground, and translating pain into purpose. Dr. Nguyen advised attendees on navigating health policy challenges in 2025, focusing on funding cuts, prescription drug reform, technology, and workforce challenges.<br /><br />Throughout her talk, she emphasized the importance of research and understanding legislators' perspectives, maintaining open communication, and staying informed. The discussion underscored the need to adapt to evolving health policies and using these strategies for effective advocacy. Dr. Nguyen also addressed audience questions, sharing insights on engaging legislators, managing burnout, navigating telehealth, and combating misinformation. The session concluded with encouragement for attendees to continue their advocacy efforts focused on patient care and improving healthcare outcomes.

Keywords

virtual DO Day 2025

Colleen Murray-Payton

leadership skills

healthcare advocacy

Teresa Hupka

Dr. Lina Nguyen

social determinants of health

advocacy tips

health policy challenges

healthcare outcomes