{"id":1707,"date":"2026-06-15T14:51:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askneurology.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/make-your-voice-heard-deadline-june-22\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T14:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:51:31","slug":"make-your-voice-heard-deadline-june-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askneurology.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/make-your-voice-heard-deadline-june-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Make your voice heard: Deadline June 22!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Act fast to submit a public comment prior to the inaugural meeting for the newly established <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apdaparkinson.org\/article\/apda-applauds-seating-of-the-national-advisory-council-on-parkinsons-research-care-and-services\/\">Advisory Council on Parkinson\u2019s Research, Care, and Services<\/a>! The meeting will be held on June 29 (and you can attend virtually), but <em>the last day to submit a public comment is June 22. <\/em>Your voice matters, so please consider submitting a comment today.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Submit a comment:<\/strong> You can use APDA\u2019s draft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apdaparkinson.org\/template-letter-for-public-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">template<\/a>, but <strong><em>you are strongly encouraged to personalize it with your own PD story and\/or why this is important to you,<\/em><\/strong> or you can write your own from scratch. Remember \u2014 public comments must be submitted by June 22 at 5 p.m. ET to <a href=\"mailto:nationalPDplan@nih.gov\">nationalPDplan@nih.gov<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Join the meeting: <\/strong>You can join the inaugural meeting of the Advisory Council which will be webcast live on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/support.apdaparkinson.org\/site\/R?i=aBitLKm1wNEjbgllIJGIl4KbhpQH_aiY_r-ms6HPI6iW1zme8bcrXg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u00a0(HHS)\u00a0Livestream<\/a> on\u00a0Monday, June\u00a029 from 10AM-4:00PM ET.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Be informed:<\/strong> For more information on the importance of this meeting and key things to watch, please review our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apdaparkinson.org\/article\/why-the-inaugural-avisory-council-on-parkinsons-meeting-matters\/\"> recent blog post.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Questions?<\/strong> <\/em>You can contact our Public Policy &amp; Advocacy team any time at advocacy@apdaparkinson.org.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apdaparkinson.org\/article\/make-your-voice-heard-deadline-june-22\/\">Make your voice heard: Deadline June 22!<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apdaparkinson.org\/\">American Parkinson Disease Association<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Act fast to submit a public comment prior to the inaugural meeting for the newly established Advisory Council on Parkinson\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parkinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askneurology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askneurology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askneurology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askneurology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askneurology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askneurology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askneurology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askneurology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askneurology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}