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Volunteers Needed: Participate in PHI’s Building H Index
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Building H

At PHI’s Building H, we believe that the products and services that we use in our day-to-day lives strongly influence our behaviors, both individually and collectively, and thus they have a big impact on the public’s health. The Building H Index was created to put a spotlight on the ways that companies in the entertainment, food, housing and transportation industries affect day-to-day behavior and to spark conversations about how they can achieve more positive impacts. Building H needs your help for it to reach the scale it needs to have significant impact.
PHI’s Building H is looking for volunteers, with backgrounds in public health, health care or health policy to rate popular products and services from companies like Netflix, Uber, Google, DoorDash McDonald’s and Meta on the influences that they have on the health behaviors of their customers. The crowd-rating activity is essential to the development of the next Building H Index and it takes about 20-30 minutes.
LEARN MORE AND SIGN UPHow it works
Building H develops written profiles of how the products and services of selected companies in the entertainment, food, housing and transportation industries influence each of five behaviors: eating, physical activity, sleeping, engaging socially and getting outdoors. Participants then rate those influences on a scale of plus 3 to minus 3. We use the aggregate results across multiple raters to develop overall scores for each company.
Please consider signing up now and Building H will get in touch once the profiles are completed and ready for your review.

Explore the Building H Index
The Building H Index rates and ranks 37 products and services—across the entertainment, food, housing and transportation industries—on the influences that they have on five behaviors: eating, physical activity, sleeping, engaging socially and spending time outdoors. The Index provides detailed reports on each company’s product, as well as overall trends by industry. It also includes specific recommendations for how products can shift to help support health and wellbeing.
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