SACRAMENTO, CA, Sept. 9, 2019 – Dr. Richard Pan, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez and a broad coalition of doctors, health care providers, public health officials, family and child advocates and parents celebrated the signing of Senate Bill 276 into law today, which will prevent fake medical exemptions and require oversight of the medial exemption process. “I […]
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Dr. Richard Pan Introduces Legislation to Address CA’s Mental Health Crisis and Get Our Students the Help They Need
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 21, 2019 – Dr. Richard Pan, a pediatrician and state senator representing the Sacramento area, and State Senator Anthony Portantino, introduced Senate Bill 428 today to increase school and community-level capacity to tackle California’s growing youth mental health crisis. The measure is sponsored by a coalition of organizations including the California Council of […]
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Dr. Richard Pan Issues Letter to U.S. Surgeon General Urging a Call to Action on Vaccine Hesitancy
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 19, 2019 – Dr. Richard Pan, a pediatrician and state senator representing the Sacramento region, sent a letter to U.S. Surgeon General Vice Adm. Jerome M. Adams calling on him to issue a call to action on vaccine hesitancy in the United States and make this crisis a public health priority. In the […]
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Dr. Richard Pan Speaks to Study Showing Russian Twitter Trolls and Bots Worked to Manipulate Vaccine Debate
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 24, 2018 – Dr. Richard Pan, a pediatrician and state senator representing the Sacramento region, responded to the study, Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate, published in the American Journal of Public Health. The study examined tweets between July 2014 and September 2017, which includes the time period […]