Programs & Products

Our staff are currently focused on the following projects:

  • Planning for Healthy Places explores community planning solutions to increase access to healthy foods and physical activity through improvements to the built environment
  • The Technical Assistance Legal Center provides tobacco control advocates, policymakers, and government attorneys with legal research, model policies, and training and technical assistance to advance polices regulating secondhand smoke exposure and the sale of tobacco products
  • The National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN) provides leaders in the childhood obesity prevention field with focused legal research, model policies, fact sheets, toolkits, training and technical assistance to explain legal issues related to public health
  • Legal Preparedness for Pandemic Flu includes national and California-specific resources to help build legal preparedness for these risks.
  • TB Control and the Law provides legal research and training on the protection of community health and individual liberties as they relate to communicable disease
  • The School Health Law Project works with school nutrition advocates to improve or eliminate contracts with food and beverage companies
  • Medicine for People in Need works to improve pharmaceutical access and management at clinics throughout California serving primarily uninsured and publicly insured patients
  • The Buck Tobacco Sponsorship Project works with communities to eliminate tobacco sponsorship at California rodeos and related events
  • The Public Health Trust manages cy pres settlements from litigation regarding public health