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PHI welcomes new USDA school meal nutrition standards as an important step to curbing childhood obesity.
PHI's Center for Public Health and Climate Changewelcomes USAID's new Climate Change and Development Strategy and its integrated approach to addressing climate change's impact on health, food and nutrition security, and gender equity.
PHI's What Works for Women & Girls publishes a comprehensive review of interventions designed to meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of women living with HIV in developing countries.
PHI joins the new Frontline Health Coalition and calls for increased investment in frontline health workers to improve global health.
Latino Adolescents in California's Rural Counties: A Snapshot of Health Status is the first brief in a three part series on California's Latino adolescents living in rural counties produced by PHI's California Adolescent Health Collaborative.
Check out PHI's Adolescent Girls' Advocacy and Leadership Initiative's inaugural bimonthly newsletter. Sign up to receive regular newsletters from AGALI here.
PHI urges advocates to take action today to protect the Public Health and Prevention Fund. In her latest blog, PHI CEO Mary Pittman discusses why sustaining our commitment to the Prevention Fund is the smart investment for our nation's healthcare system and economy.
PHI asks HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to reconsider her recent decision to overrule FDA approval of over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception for all women of childbearing age.
PHI's CEO, Mary Pittman, writes about why negotiations at the COP-17 climate change conference in Durban matter to women. For more updates on COP-17 visit PHI's Center for Public Health and Climate Change.
In the wake of the Penn State child sexual assault scandal, PHI's Lori Dorfman of the Berkeley Media Studies Group pushes for more precise language in news reporting of such cases and for more attention to prevention, in this Letter to the Editor published in the New York Times. BMSG's recent report on this very topic, funded by the Ms. Foundation for Women, was highlighted in an NPR piece grappling with NPR's own approach to reporting this and similar incidents.
As United Nations climate change talks get underway in Durban, South Africa, PHI urges global collaboration on climate, and calls for greater attention to health in global climate change agreements.
The implications of climate change for the health of the world's populations are becoming increasingly evident. As delegates and stakeholders gather from around the world this week for the global Climate Change Conference (COP17) in Durban, PHI's Cristina Tirado, director of the Center for Public Health and Climate Change, attends to push for increased attention to the health in all efforts to address climate change. The Center provides conference coverage and information here.
Is pizza a vegetable? Some members of Congress think so. Matthew Marsom, PHI's Director of Public Policy, blogs about how recent legislation impacts nutritional standards for the USDA's school lunch program.
PHI's Director of Public Policy, Matthew Marsom, discussed the Farm Bill on Kansas City's KCUR. Click here to access the audio archive.
The Public Health Institute (PHI) is proud to announce that Rosana Schaack, a fellow in PHI’s Adolescent Girls Advocacy and Leadership Initiative (AGALI), will be joining Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues, Melanne Verveer, at a US Department of State event in honor of the International Day to Eliminate Violence against Women and the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. Read more.
Obesity prevention efforts are making gains in California, but children in the San Joaquin Valley aren't yet seeing the same benefits, reports CCROPP Regional Coordinator Genoveva Islas-Hooker in her blog.
The Public Health Institute remembers Henry J. Ongerth, PE, MPH (1913-2011). A co-founder and board member of PHI, Ongerth was a strategic thinker and instrumental in building PHI into a leading independent public health institute.
Almost one million California children under 12 years of age are exposed to secondhand smoke, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research that was co-authored by PHI researchers Sue Holtby and Elaine Zahnd.
One important piece of business was left unfinished at the UN meeting on non-communicable diseases, PHI President Mary A. Pittman reports in her blog.
The world is on the verge of passing a population milestone, and PHI Vice President for Global Health Suzanne Petroni tells a national morning radio news program what life will be like for the 7 billionth person.
The world’s population will reach 7 billion people on October 31. The Public Health Institute has joined together with a United Nations Population Fund campaign to draw attention to this important moment with a series of blogs and other resources over the next week.
PHI's Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG) and other advocates are working to assure that voluntary federal guidelines for marketing food to children aren't watered down. See their partner Prevention Institute's new video "We're Not Buying It" and BMSG director Lori Dorfman's op-ed, with David Britt, in the Hill, a daily congressional newspaper.
A new journal article explores how PHI’s Regional Asthma Management and Prevention program grew from a $42,000 legal settlement involving air pollution 15 years ago into a nationally recognized asthma program.
The latest issue of PHI's newsletter focuses on PHI's leadership role in the fight to prevent and treat non-communicable diseases, a growing worldwide health threat.
New research by PHI's Elaine Zahnd, PhD, shows that adult victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) are more than 3 times as likely to report serious psychological distress in the past year. This and other findings, based on data from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey, underscore the need for IPV screening and support services for victims. Read more here.
PHI's Dialogue4Health has become a vital online tool for generating conversation and community among people working to improve the public's health, Vice President Carmen R. Nevarez tells NewPublicHealth, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's new blog, in a Q&A.
The Center for Technology and Aging has awarded more than $475,000 in grants to five organizations that will demonstrate effective ways to implement mobile health technologies for older adults with chronic conditions.
PHI applauds new guidelines that assure critical preventive health services for women.
In a letter to HHS Secretary Sebelius, PHI president Mary A. Pittman urges that Institute of Medicine recommendations for women's preventive health services be fully covered under the Affordable Care Act.
PHI develops the Japan Recovery Project to address the country’s most critical mental health needs in the aftermath of the March 2011 disaster.
The Network for a Healthy California – Children's Power Play! Campaign visited a Redwood City summer camp recently, and the New York Times was there to report on the fun ways this statewide initiative counters kids' summertime slide in activity and healthy eating.
On the opening day of the 6th Biennial Childhood Obesity Conference, PHI calls for the nation to adopt a health in all policies approach to stem the childhood obesity epidemic.
Public health departments are only beginning to recognize the need to address the social and economic factors that lead to chronic disease. PHI and BARHII have just released a report that compiles and reviews substantial evidence linking the social determinants of health to chronic disease, offers a way to use that information for improving health – and is destined to become a key resource.
In a letter to the United Nations Secretary General, PHI calls for the upcoming U.N. meeting on non-communicable diseases to consider the risks posed by climate change and the special vulnerabilities of women and children.
The discovery of a potentially harmful chemical in smoke highlights the need for government policies to protect human health from the impacts of climate change, the Public Health Institute said today.
Former PHI board chair Toni Yancey gave the keynote address to the California Healthy Cities and Communities annual conference. To listen to her speech, “Improvement Through Movement – Every City Needs a Little PUSH,” and view other presentations, click here.
In the face of deep, demoralizing cuts to child care services, Kate Karpilow’s HealthyCal.org article urges Gov. Brown and advocates to work together to update California’s child care master plan.
In an editorial published in the journal Contraception, PHI Vice President for Global Health Suzanne Petroni writes of the need for U.S. development assistance to continue to support reproductive health and family planning.
A Berkeley Media Studies Group study shows news media underreport child sexual abuse, miss key aspects of the issue.
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Sandra Gálvez named to lead Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative at PHI, brings determination to address disparities in health.
A Berkeley Media Studies Group resource helps health departments and advocates make the case for prevention to the media, policy makers and community leaders.
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The United Nations Environmental Program's magazine Tunza showcases PHI's First Ladies Initiative, which is mobilizing African first ladies to improve health and development.
PHI's Rupal Sanghvi is featured in The Atlantic for her work to re-design supermarkets to improve health outcomes.
PHI's Public Health Trust awards the Center for Environmental Health over $200,000 in Prop. 65 settlement funds to reduce children’s risk of exposure to lead from synthetic turf fields.
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New suggested federal guidelines on food industry marketing to children have been released. Why is this important? Read Food and Beverage Marketing to Children and Adolescents: An Environment at Odds with Good Health, prepared by PHI's Berkeley Media Studies Group for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Healthy Eating Research program.
PHI Special Advisor for Global Health Jeff Meer attended the Global Forum on Non Communicable Diseases in Moscow. Read his blog about this important event.
PHI study finds for first time that exposure to PCBs in the womb can affect how long it takes a daughter to become pregnant years later. The study appears in the journal Reproductive Toxicology.
How healthy is your county? The County Health Rankings, released by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, confirm the critical role that factors such as education, jobs, income, and environment play in how healthy people are and how long they live.
In a journal article, Anne Kelsey Lamb describes RAMP’s collaborative advocacy efforts to reduce diesel pollution in Bay Area African American and Latino communities inequitably affected by asthma.
Francine Coeytaux and Susan Fogel of PHI’s Pro-Choice Alliance for Responsible Research call for public policies to ensure the safety and appropriate use of assisted reproductive technologies in an editorial in the journal Contraception.
PHI tobacco expert Teh-wei Hu has been appointed to CDC panel on smoking and health.
PHI programs featured in the November 2010 issue of the American Journal of Public Health highlight the importance of environmental approaches to obesity prevention.
An article by PHI president Mary A. Pittman is included in a November collection of essays highlighting partnerships for population health improvement.
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