Standard-setting groups and health, medical and scientific societies have long performed advocacy functions, though typically in a different way than many other associations. Government relations for such groups is more likely to involve working with arcane agencies on safety or vaccination standards than suing the government or firing broadsides at federal appointees.But some took advocacy to what was, for them, an unprecedented level during the first year of the second Trump administration — a year one association CEO called “traumatic.”CEO Update spoke to four association chief executives spurred to action to defend their professions and, in their view, protect the public.These groups,… Read More