SUPPORT EXPANDED FUNDING FOR SLEEP AT THE CDC!

The National Sleep Foundation and member organizations of the National Sleep Awareness Roundtable (NSART) are seeking to expand funding for sleep activities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We need your help by contacting Congress today!

Over 50 million of Americans suffer from sleep disorders yet a large majority of them are undiagnosed and untreated. The National Sleep Foundation has been working with patients, people affected by drowsy driving, sleep professionals, volunteers and the members of the National Sleep Awareness Roundtable to:

1. Promote sleep as a healthy behavior,
2. Raise awareness about the signs and symptoms of sleep disorders; and
3. Explain the consequences of sleep deprivation, such as workplace accidents and drowsy driving.

We need your help to educate Congress that more must be done to further sleep research, reduce the prevalence drowsy driving, and improve the lives of those with sleep disorders. Ultimately, your support will save lives.

Our goal is to expand funding for sleep programs at the CDC to support increased data collection and surveillance activities; the creation of education and awareness materials for the public and health care professionals; and the establishment of fellowship opportunities for promising researchers at universities and colleges.

Please call or e-mail your senators and representative to ask that they expand funding for sleep!

Phone calls make a significant impact. Click here to look up the phone numbers of your senators and representative. Then click here for our talking points. (To download Adobe Acrobat click here.)

For more information, click here to read our Issue Brief on CDC funding. (To download Adobe Acrobat click here.)