Advocacy Action Summit

From September 7-9, 2025, we convened patient advocates from 28 states, attending over 300 legislative meetings, taking collective action for healthcare access and affordability.

What is the Advocacy Action Summit?

The PAN Foundation’s Advocacy Action Summit is a powerful three-day event held in Washington, D.C., from September 7-9, 2025, where patients and advocates come together to urge change in healthcare policy. This is an opportunity for a group of PAN grant recipients to share your story, make your voice heard, and help shape policies that directly impact people living with chronic and serious illnesses.

We welcomed current or former PAN grant recipients to take advantage of this opportunity to travel to Washington, D.C. to receive expert advocacy training, connect with other passionate advocates, taking their message directly to policymakers on Capitol Hill. Our lived experience is powerful, and by speaking up, we influence the decisions that shape access to healthcare for millions.

Week of Action: September 8-12, 2025

In 2025, we held our inaugural virtual Week of Action from September 8-12, complementing the Advocacy Action Summit. Each day during Week of Action we urged lawmakers to support a specific piece of legislation to make affordable, accessible healthcare a reality for all.

Together, more than 2,300 grassroots advocates from across the nation sent over 7,500 emails to lawmakers advocating for the same policy issues as the PAN delegation on Capitol Hill, and countless more called their representatives to urge them to take action.

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The history of PAN’s Advocacy Action Summit

2024

The PAN Foundation was overwhelmed by the support and enthusiasm shown by healthcare access advocates from across the country during our Advocacy Action Summit and Virtual Day of Action in 2024. Together, we made a tremendous impact!

2023

On September 28, 2023, a passionate coalition of more than 40 patients, family members, and caregivers representing 15 states and one U.S. territory brought their message to Capitol Hill, engaging in 160 powerful legislative meetings. This historic event marked the PAN Foundation’s inaugural in-person Advocacy Action Day. PAN’s unified voice resonated, urging Congress to champion legislation addressing timely access to affordable and equitable healthcare for all. Thousands of supporters from across the country also rallied together for a virtual day of action, sending more than 5,000 emails to legislators, echoing the messages of the PAN delegation on the Hill. 

2022

PAN held our first advocacy “Action Day” in 2022, rallying our advocates across all U.S. states and territories to call on Congress to support commonsense, patient-first legislation.

During our inaugural event, we urged Congress to support key Medicare reforms through the Inflation Reduction Act. When those reforms were signed into law, we celebrated an important policy win for patients. You can learn about those reforms and the timeline for implementation in our Medicare reforms guide.

Thank you to our 2025 summit sponsors