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

Publications

PHLP offers a variety of products, including fact sheets, model documents, reports, legal memos, and presentations. You can search our publications according to product type, a specific policy area, or a combination of the two. Choose from the categories in the drop-down menus for each field. You may also enter a keyword in the search box to narrow the results. Click “Search” to display your results.

Policy Area

10 Ways to Limit Tobacco

Fact Sheet

This comprehensive yet easy-to-use brochure describes 10 legal policy options for local governments to limit tobacco use, sales, and marketing in their communities. Retailer licensing, sponsorship bans, private enforcement, and other laws and ordinances are outlined. Includes a colorful 17" x 11" poster illustrating a tobacco-free city, which acts as a quick guide to policies and laws applicable to different community settings.

A Legal Primer for the Obesity Prevention Movement

Article

Additional resources to help you implement smokefree housing policies

Chart

The following resources accompany TALC's fact sheet, Creating Smokefree Policies for Affordable Housing in California.

New Toolkit: Increasing Physical Activity Through Joint Use Agreements

PHLP’s joint use toolkit helps communities and school districts work together to develop joint use agreements increasing access to recreational facilities on school grounds.

Podcasts: Rebuilding Healthier Neighborhoods

Watch our series of four podcast stories that show how redevelopment can help make communities healthier. This series, available through HealthyPlanning.org or iTunes, brings to life how the redevelopment process helped advance public health, improving local air quality and making parks and healthy food more accessible.

Dealing with Secondhand Smoke at Home

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.

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