"I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health"
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"Organized events around the Nation" leans on a classic American legitimacy test: geographic breadth. The phrase implies grassroots energy without committing to any particular ideology. That matters because "public health" can be politically radioactive when it touches regulation, spending, or personal behavior. Capps sidesteps that fight by emphasizing "awareness" and "need" rather than mandates or budgets. Awareness is a safe verb; need is a moral verb. Together, they frame action as overdue and obvious, not partisan.
The subtext is preventive politics. Public health’s biggest victories are often invisible (diseases that don’t spread, crises that don’t happen), so advocates have to manufacture visibility through events, partnerships, and public storytelling. Capps, a legislator speaking in the era when health care debates were increasingly nationalized, is using ceremony to launder urgency into consensus: if everyone can agree to notice the problem, the next step - funding, infrastructure, equity, preparedness - becomes harder to dismiss.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Capps, Lois. (2026, January 15). I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-want-to-thank-the-efforts-of-the-american-165391/
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Capps, Lois. "I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-want-to-thank-the-efforts-of-the-american-165391/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-want-to-thank-the-efforts-of-the-american-165391/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
