Since health care is such an issue right now, I decided to acknowledge some celebs who have put their activism energy into health issues. There are obviously many more celebrities supporting health causes, so apologies if I left your favorite celebrity or charity off this list. Click the links to these celebrity supported charities to take part and support these health causes.

1) Michael J. Fox: Parkinson’s Disease
Michael was diagnosed with Parkinson in 1991. He founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research that is working to find a cure.

2) Lance Armstrong: Cancer
Cyclist Lance Armstrong founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation (the organization that began the cause bracelet trend) to unite people to fight cancer believing that unity is strength, knowledge is power and attitude is everything.

3) Christina Applegate: Breast cancer
Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, Applegate survived the disease after having a double mastectomy. She is the spokesperson for Lee National Denim Day when supporters nationwide come together to put on their jeans in exchange for a $5 contribution to the fight against breast cancer with the goal of raising millions of dollars in a single day.

4) Brooke Shields: Postpartum Depression
After giving birth to her first child in 2003, Shields suffered from postpartum depression and wrote about her book, Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression. When Tom Cruise criticized Shields for using Paxil she wrote this great NY Times piece.

5) Alicia Keys: HIV / AIDS
In 2003 Alicia Keys and Leigh Blake, longtime AIDS activist and film/TV producer, co-founded Keep a Child Alive, a people’s movement that provides life-saving AIDS medicine and surrounding care to children and families in Africa and India.

6) Sheryl Crow: Cancer
Sheryl Crow, a breast cancer survivor, has worked with Stand Up to Cancer, a non-profit organization/website/TV show that aims to raise money for cancer researchers and scientists to come together and reach their common goal: the cure for cancer.

7) Jennifer Garner: Influenza
As the national spokesperson for the the American Lung Association Faces of Influenza education campaign, actress Jennifer Garner encourages families to speak with their health care providers about annual influenza vaccination. Influenza kills an average of 36,000 people and hospitalizes about 226,000 people every year.

8 ) Magic Johnson: AIDS/HIV
After announcing that he had tested positive for HIV, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Jr. started  The Magic Johnson Foundation which provides funds to organizations that provide HIV/AIDS prevention and health care education to the minority community. He was also the main speaker for the United Nations (UN) World AIDS Day Conference in 1999.

9) Montel Williams: Multiple Sclerosis
After Montel Williams announced he had multiple sclerosis in 1999, he started the Montel Williams MS Foundation, dedicated to furthering the scientific study of multiple sclerosis and to raise national awareness about MS. Williams has personally raised more than $1.1 million to fight the disease.

10) Melissa Etheridge: Breast Cancer
Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, Etheridge gave proceeds from her song, “I Run for Life,” to breast cancer charities and has joined the board of the Noreen Fraser Foundation which supports developing new prevention methods, diagnostic tools and non-toxic therapies to treat women’s cancers.