The National Health Council would like the thank the following organizations that helped shape this report by participating in roundtables, on task forces, in work groups and action teams that helped inform the initiative, and by providing consultation on specific issues, and/or funding the initiative: 

• AbbVie*+
• Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy*
• American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation*
• American Association of Family Physicians
• American Association of Medical Colleges
• American Association on Health and Disability*
• Autoimmune Association*
• American Cancer Society – Cancer Action Network*
• American College of Rheumatology*
• American Diabetes Association*
• American Heart Association*
• American Kidney Fund*
• American Lung Association*
• American Medical Association – Center for Health Equity
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
• America’s Health Insurance Plans*
• AMGA
• Amgen*+
• Amputee Coalition*
• Anthem*
• Arthritis Foundation*
• Association of Black Cardiologists*
• Astellas*+
• Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America*
• AstraZeneca*+
• BIO*+
• Biogen*+
• bluebird bio*+
• Boehringer-Ingelheim*
• Bristol-Myers Squibb*+
• Cigna*
• Eli Lilly+
• Epilepsy Foundation*
• EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases*
• Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy
• Gilead Sciences*+
• Immune Deficiency Foundation*
• Johnson & Johnson*+
• Kaiser Family Foundation
• LUNGevity*
• Lupus Foundation of America*
• Mallinckrodt*+
• Mental Health America*
• Merck*+
• NAACP
• National Alliance for Caregiving*
• NAMI*
• National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions*
• National Association of Community Health Centers
• National Black Nurses Association*
• National Minority Quality Forum*
• National Patient Advocate Foundation*
• Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.*
• Novartis*
• Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
• Patient Advocate Foundation
• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
• Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy*
• Pfizer*
• PhRMA*
• Prevent Blindness*
• Quest Diagnostics
• REGENXBIO*
• Research!America*
• Sanofi*+
• Sick Cells
• Sjögren’s Foundation*
• The PATIENTS Program – University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
• The Trevor Project*
• UnidosUS
• United States Pharmacopeia*

*  NHC Members 
+ Health Equity Initiative Funders