Advocacy on Environmental Risk Factors of PD esp in LMICs

Very interesting topic, thank you @Vidash for raising and @danieltds for your many thoughts :slight_smile:

MJFF has definitely been interested in both understanding environmental risk factors and also advocating for/participating in efforts to reduce exposure in the first place (long-standing efforts to ban paraquat come to mind): What’s the Environment Got to Do with Parkinson’s Research?.

One thing that I’ve noticed on the link above is an automated form for reaching out to lawmakers, and @Vidash , I wonder if you know of any institutions involved in these sorts of lobbying/outreach efforts? I also wonder if there are ways we can perhaps share scaffolding or models for conducting outreach if that is of interest (just a thought, not sure it’s feasible or helpful, but I know from my PD registry work that we’ll do things like share model legislation, so each state doesn’t have to draft a new law over and over…).

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