Organizations
The National Hispanic Health Foundation (NHHF) has a mission to transform the health care system through leadership, research and education to improve Hispanic health equity. The NHHF does not conduct, fund, commission, or support tests on animals. The NHHF strongly supports the ‘Research Modernization Now’ strategic policy roadmap put forward by scientists at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Animals used in laboratory experiments are biologically, physiologically, and anatomically different from human beings, making animal testing a suboptimal and highly error-prone endeavor that costs billions of taxpayer dollars each year while failing more than 90 percent of the time to deliver safe and effective treatments for patients. The need for better medical therapies is urgently increasing, and the solution starts with modernizing the research pipeline. By 2060, Latinos will face the largest increase in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia cases of any racial or ethnic group in the country, which is due in part to an expected quadrupling of the number of Latinos age 65 and older, high prevalence of cardiovascular disease, and a greater incidence of diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and depression compared to non-Hispanic whites. Everyone will benefit from replacing animal experiments with more effective human-based medical research, and PETA’s plan provides a guide for how to achieve this important transition.
— Elena Rios, MD, MSPH, MACP; President, National Hispanic Health Foundation
U.S. Experts
Aitor Aguirre, PhD; Michigan State University
Alex Savtchenko, PhD; Nanotools Bioscience
Alysson Muotri; PhD; University of California San Diego
Anna Blum, PhD
Barbara King, PhD; William & Mary
Barbara Perlmutter, MD, PhD, FACP, Hoboken University Medical Center
Belita Cowan, MA; President, Lymphoma Foundation of America
Brent Geary, PhD
Carol Tavani, MD/DO; Christiana Psychiatric Services
Catharine Krebs, PhD; Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Chiao Yun Chen, MS; University of Rochester
Christine Webb, PhD; Harvard University
David DeGrazia, PhD; George Washington University
Delcianna Winders, JD; Animal Law and Policy Institute, Vermont Law and Graduate School
Diqui LaPenta, PhD
Don Lipmanson, JD
Donald Ingber, MD, PhD; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University
Elena Molokanova, PhD; NurANO Bioscience
Gaile Pare, PhD
Garet Lahvis, PhD
Ingrid Hullman, MD
Jeanne Folks, DMin, LPC; private practice
Jenny Carter, JD
John Sanbonmatsu, PhD; Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jonathan Renkas, MD
Hana Punwani, MBA
Kathy Hessler, JD, LLM; George Washington University Law School
Kathrin Herrmann; PhD, DVM, DipECAWBM; Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
Kathryn Strickland, DVM/VMDV
Kevin McCluskey, MD
Lori Marino, PhD; New York University
Luann Hammami, PhD
Luisa Bulcao Vieira Coelho, MS/MA
Marge Peppercorn, MD
Mary Dame, MD
Manoj V. Waikar, MD
Margaret Guilfoy Tyler, PhD; St. Louis Community College
Megan Lankenau, PhD
Melinda Marquis, PhD
Michael Metzler, MD, PhD; Morrow County Health District
Michael “Miguel” Suderman, MSc; CELLSystems-3D, LLC
Mikalah Singer, JD; Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Mitch Goldsmith, PhD, Michigan State University
Nathan Nobis, PhD; Morehouse College
Nedim Buyukmihci, DVM/VMD, University of California, School of Veterinary Medicine
Nicholas Dodman, DVM/VMD, DACVAA, DACVB, DVA; Tufts University
Nora Johnson, PsyD, MBA, MS
Pam Zagula, JD
Robert Jones, PhD; California State University
Robert Shulman, MD
Shilpa Mehta, MD; American College of Physicians
Stacy De-Lin, MD
Stuart Ring, MD
Sharon Laplante, MD
Stephanie Jackson, MD
Sylvia Lucas, MD, PhD; University of Washington
Taylor Waters, JD
Zaher Nahle, PhD, MPA; The Ivyvictory Group