Women, Youth & Children
Promoting the health and well-being of women, children and youth
Our Impact
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- 160M women, girls and youth with more rights and power
- 21% of women harmed by another's drinking, research from our Alcohol Research Group showed
- 10K+ healthcare internship hours worked by at-risk youth
Our Work
Policies and programs to support youth, children and women unlock economic advancement, educational opportunity and better health for communities around the globe. PHI addresses issues such as childhood obesity, asthma, and sexual and reproductive health. PHI has worked for a half century to empower women, youth and girls through research, advocacy, leadership programs, and organizational and professional development. Known for dynamic leadership in improving the health of women, children and youth, our work focuses on uncovering health disparities, understanding their causes and addressing them through evidence-based solutions.
Critical Issues
PHI Priority
Building Health Equity
PHI’s Rise Up’s Girls Voices Initiative is creating a pipeline of girl leaders. In Kenya, 48 Rise Up girl leaders in the marginalized Maasai community implemented campaigns to end the harmful traditional practice of female genital mutilation and to reduce girls’ dropout rates from school. A new budget line in the Lagos state of Nigeria increased government funding to provide free adolescent and maternal health services across the State, protecting the health and rights of 400,000 girls and women.
Programs
Active Programs
CA-Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review
CAMI Health
Center for Collaborative Planning
Center for Innovation and Technology in Public Health
Child Health and Development Studies
FACES for the Future Coalition
GOJoven International
Health Intervention Projects for Underserved Populations
Nicole Lordi, Researcher
Rise Up
Archived Programs
California Adolescent Health Collaborative
California Center for Research on Women and Families(PHI program 2000-2016)
Center for Research on Adolescent Health & Development
Collective Impact Partnership: Increasing the Economic Power of Girls and Women in India
Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA)(PHI program 2013-2016)
Health Spectrum Program
Network for a Healthy California, Supplemental Nutrition Education Program Education (PHI program 1997-2015)
Rise Up: Listen to girls. And change begins.
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