Bridging Health Care Reform and Sexual and Reproductive Health Advocacy

Coalition Leadership

NHeLP leads national coalition efforts bridging federal health care reform and sexual and reproductive health advocacy. Some examples of our leadership include:

• Co-chairing the National Coalition for Gender Justice in Health Policy (NCGJHP), which mobilizes the sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice movement and allied health advocates to protect Medicaid, the ACA, and related civil rights from federal policy threats. 
• Organizing the Medicaid and Reproductive Justice Collaborative, a movement lawyering hub that builds power to advance reproductive justice through Medicaid and federal health care reform.  
• Organizing the Health Equity and Accountability Act (HEAA) Community Working Group’s Title V Subcommittee, which works to integrate sexual and reproductive health and gender justice into the Tri-Caucus’ racial health equity agenda. 
• Co-leading the Medicaid Family Planning Group, a coalition of advocates working to increase access to family planning services for Medicaid enrollees through federal administrative and legislative advocacy.

Through movement lawyering and advocacy, legal and policy analysis, technical assistance, and education; strategic support; and seminal resources such as the “Advocate’s Guide to Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Medicaid Program,” we arm policymakers and advocates with the tools they need to champion sexual and reproductive health and justice in state and federal health care reform debates.