We are giving a giant THANK YOU to everyone who donated to us in 2011! You've partnered with us to create much needed new standards and opportunities for communities nationwide.
Starting off the year with a bang, Robert S. Ogilvie, program director of our Planning for Healthy Places initiative, was interviewed for this California Watch article on urban planning and public health. This spring, we anticipate publishing our new factsheet on retrofitting suburbia, "Creating Healthier Suburbs: Tools for Transforming Sprawl into Livable Communities," that encourages public health advocates to become more involved in planning sustainable communities.
In February, keep an eye out for "Protecting Young People From Junk Food Advertising: Implications of Psychological Research for First Amendment Law" co-authored by our director of Legal Research, Samantha Graff, which will be appearing in the American Journal of Public Health. Senior Staff Attorney Sara Zimmerman and Senior Associate Hannah Burton Laurison will be speaking on healthy equitable schools and rural groceries respectively at the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference, February 2-4 in San Diego.
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Dec 20, 2011
The saying "a stitch in time saves nine" rings especially true when it comes to preventing poor health rather than treating costly disease. Our new fact sheet on the Prevention and Public Health Fund summarizes a wide array of data to make the case for why prevention is so important. Investing in healthy communities, where we can avoid chronic disease and injury over lifetimes, can repay initial costs through health savings. Get the facts on how prevention saves money and lives through improvments to our economy, our international competitiveness, our military preparedness, and our educational success, while providing crucial benefits to low income communities, communities of color, older adults, and children.
Jan 23, 2012
Two long-awaited publications from NPLAN are now available for download. Green for Greens: Finding Public Funding for Healthy Food Retail identifies the substantial amount of public financing available for projects that make healthy food more available to low-income people. It also provides ideas for approaching economic development agencies with healthy food retail proposals. Putting Health on the Menu is a toolkit for creating healthy restaurant programs that includes a variety of options and examples that communities can draw upon in establishing their own program.
Nov 29, 2011
PHLP has released two new publications to help public health advocates get involved in community planning and economic development. Getting Involved in Climate Change Planning explores the overlap between climate change and healthy built environment initiatives, with a companion fact sheet about California's Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act (SB 375). Getting Involved in Transportation Planning similarly illuminates how the design of roadways and transit systems can be integrated into healthy community planning.
