Program Links

Adolescent Girls' Advocacy & Leadership Initiative (AGALI)
Enhances the capacity of leaders to advocate for policies and programs that improve the health, human rights, and socio-economic well-being of adolescent girls in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico, Liberia, Malawi, and Ethiopia. AGALI strengthens civil society leaders' efforts to advance local and national policy initiatives that address the needs of adolescent girls, and empowers girls to develop solutions to the challenges they face.

Advancing the State of the Art in Community Benefit Demonstration
Brings together a diverse group of 70 hospitals in California, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada to develop and implement a series of uniform standards to align hospital governance, management, and operations, and to make optimal use of limited charitable resources to address unmet health-related needs.

Alcohol Research Group & National Alcohol Research Center
Engaged in epidemiological studies of alcohol and health services research. Current research focuses on alcohol and drug use and related problems, health services research, policy analysis, and the study of community responses and interventions.

Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative
A unique undertaking by local health departments in the San Francisco Bay Area to confront health inequities.

Berkeley Media Studies Group
Committed to the use of mass media as a tool to strengthen policy advocacy at the community level. Aids public health professionals and community groups in accessing the power of the media.

Buck Tobacco Sponsorship Project
Provides current information aimed toward eliminating tobacco sponsorship of California rodeos, and related tobacco promotions in other venues such as rodeo-themed "bar nights."

C/NET Solutions
Provides computer software and support to manage cancer registries and statewide case reporting.

California Adolescent Health Collaborative
A public-private partnership to promote investment in California's youth. Addresses adolescent health and well-being from a non-categorical, multidisciplinary perspective.

California Cancer Registry
A statewide population-based cancer surveillance system. Collects information about all cancers diagnosed in California (except basal and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin and carcinoma in situ of the cervix).

California Center for Research on Women and Families
Provides information, facilitation, analysis and policy options to help leaders improve the lives of women, families and children in California and the nation.

California Health Interview Survey
The largest state-based consumer health survey conducted in the United States. Every two years, CHIS collects information on the health and health care needs of California’s diverse population.

California Permanency for Youth Project
Provides information on programs and strategies for accomplishing permanency for foster youth including best practices, identified barriers, updates on counties efforts to improve permanency, and updates on the California Task Force for Youth Permanency.

California Project LEAN
Increases healthy eating and physical activity to reduce the prevalence of chronic disease such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, osteoporosis and diabetes.

Center for Civic Partnerships
Provides technical support, educational programs, products and services that emphasize participatory governance and a systems approach to healthier communities.

Center for Collaborative Planning
Promotes health and social justice through training and technical assistance, and by connecting people and resources.

Center for Health Leadership & Practice
Provides health leadership development, consultation, and training.

Center for International Tobacco Control
Conducts tobacco control research in China and in Indonesia to provide the evidence base for public policies in these countries which will reduce tobacco consumption and advance public health, and to build the capacity of tobacco control researchers in these countries.

Center for Research on Adolescent Health and Development
Conducts research, evaluation, and policy studies on adolescent health and youth development. Guided by an ecological framework, we study the interaction between the adolescent and his or her family, peer group, school system, community, and culture, together with the evidence base and practical implications of current and alternative policies intended to promote healthy adolescent development.

Center for Research on Women’s and Children’s Health
A Center for research and policy development with the objectives of basic epidemiological research and the translation of research to public policy and program evaluation. Since 1997, the Center has also been home to the Child Health and Development Studies, a 40-year follow-up study of 20,000 pregnancies that is a unique resource for investigation of the health determinants over a life span, beginning even before birth.

Child Health and Development Studies
CHDS scientists study how health and disease are passed on between generations—not just by genes, but also through social, personal and environmental surroundings. CHDS studies will uncover ways to prevent disease early in life.

Coalition Advancing Multipurpose Innovations (CAMI)
The Coalition Advancing Multipurpose Innovations (CAMI) project is a coalition of researchers, biotech developers, advocates and providers working to promote innovative preventive strategies that enhance reproductive and sexual health in the U.S. and around the globe. CAMI's work is done through collaboration, convenings, advocacy and research.

DBTAC-Pacific ADA Center
Building a partnership between the disability and business communities, as well as promoting full and unrestricted participation in society for persons with disabilities through education and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other disability laws.

Global Health Fellows Program
The Public Health Institute implements the Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP) for the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The program, whose aim is to improve the effectiveness of USAID's Population, Health and Nutrition Programs overseas works in three areas: recruitment of health professionals, opportunities for minority students, and professional and organization development. PHI implements GHFP in partnership with Harvard School of Public Health • Management Systems International • Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

GoJoven (Youth Leadership in Sexual and Reproductive Health Program)
Promotes and supports the development of young leaders in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Quintana Roo, Mexico to act as catalysts for social change to expand adolescent reproductive and sexual health choices, services, policies, and programs at the community, national, and regional levels.

International Family Planning Leadership Program
Improves the effectiveness of family planning leaders and provides them with skills and knowledge that will sustain them as they rise to higher levels of responsibility in their countries.

International Health Programs
Builds health and family planning service delivery capability through training, consultation and research.

Medicine for People in Need (Medpin)
Partners with health care providers, patient organizations or representatives, public agencies, pharmaceutical companies and others to expand access to medicines for people in need.

Network for a Healthy California
A statewide public health campaign to increase physical activity, consumption of fruits and vegetables, and food security in an effort to reduce the risk of chronic disease.

Partnership for the Public's Health
A grant-making initiative pioneering efforts to bring about long-term, systemic changes in how community health issues are identified, addressed and evaluated in California.

Public Health Trust
Provides legal consultation and expertise in public health program development and funds management to parties interested in designating litigation-generated funds to local communities or a class of injured persons.

Regional Asthma Management and Prevention Initiative
Saves lives and prevents sickness associated with asthma among adults by the facilitation of diverse organizations, institutions, and community residents that collaborate in the enhancement of clinical and community based systems.

Survey Research Group
Serves client goals by collecting high quality data and provides information products in a timely manner.

The Threshold Project
An educational initiative and facilitator accreditation program with a mission to enhance the experience of living for people and caregivers as death approaches. The Threshold Project is committed to changing the culture of dying in America.