Public Health Law & Policy (PHLP) partners with advocates and decision-makers to help create healthier communities. We provide in-depth research and analysis on legal and policy questions, and translate complex information into practical tools such as fact sheets, toolkits, and model policies.
PHLP, a project of the Public Health Institute, works to help build the capacity of advocates, local public health and planning departments, schools, government attorneys, elected officials, and others to advance their public health goals through policy change -- for example, by limiting "junk food" marketing aimed at children, protecting people from secondhand smoke, or making healthy foods and physical activity more accessible.
The selection of foods available through the WIC program recently changed for the first time in 35 years – a change that holds potential to transform the retail food landscape in low-income communities, where liquor stores often proliferate and grocery stores are few.
TALC has developed a series of fact sheets to help communities and individuals better understand options for dealing with unwanted secondhand smoke exposure in the home:
PHLP has released an Action Plan that represents an important initial assessment of public health’s abilities and limitations to fully engage in climate change work as well as a preliminary set of recommended actions. It is a synthesis of the priorities and strategies developed during a one-day multi-disciplinary gathering where more than 150 participants exchanged ideas on how to better engage public health networks and agencies in climate change work.
