Publications

PHAI’s Sarah Peck Publishes Op-Ed on Long-Term Impact of Pulse Nightclub Shooting

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In an op-ed published today in the Orlando Sentinel, Sarah Peck, director of PHAI’s #UnitedOnGuns initiative along with Northeastern Professor James Alan Fox consider the impact of lingering trauma from the horrific Pulse Nightclub shooting, which occurred 5 years ago on June 12, 2016. Peck and Fox note that the psychological toll on survivors, families, first responders, and others […]

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PHAI Board Member Ben Kelley on Safety Implications of Autonomous Vehicles

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Ben Kelley, a leading authority on automotive safety, is a member of the Board of Directors for the Public Health Advocacy Institute.  Recently he published a scholarly article and op-ed discussing the safety implications of autonomous, i.e., “self-driving,” vehicles. The article appeared in the Journal of Public Health Policy.  JPHP is co-published by another of

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PHAI Board Member Explains Results of Paris Climate Change Summit

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Founding PHAI Board member, Anthony Robbins, has published a a thoughtful editorial in the Journal of Public Health Policy entitled: How to understand the results of the climate change summit Conference of Parties21 (COP21) Paris 2015.   It offers helpful and, largely, hopeful insight for a public health audience.

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Boston Globe Published Gottlieb Op-Ed on Legality of Daily Fantasy Sports in Massachusetts

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The Boston Globe has published an opinion piece by PHAI\’s executive director, Mark A. Gottlieb, which summarizes the organization’s legal research concluding that paid Daily Fantasy Sports games are illegal under Massachusetts law. The piece, entitled, Fantasy Sports Gambling is Illegal Under State Law explains the law and several reasons why it is important to enforce it.

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Coke’s Balancing Act

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By Cara Wilking, JD, Consulting Attorney The Coca-Cola Company’s pouring of millions of dollars into the Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN), a front group focused on exercise as opposed to diet to combat obesity, has crystallized an issue that the public health community has long been concerned about: the role of industry funding to research and develop

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PHAI Board Member, Ben Kelley, Publishes Powerful Op-ed on GM’s Apologies

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One of the Public Health Advocacy Institute\’s founding board members, Ben Kelley, is a longtime auto safety expert with considerable experience with the issue from both in and outside  of government.  He has just published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times (and Fair Warning) that benefits from his long memory of General Motors\’ apologies

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Plumbing codes an important factor in availability of school water fountains, finds PHAI\’s Wilking in CDC study

Obesity, Publications /

In a study examining availability of water fountains in schools published in the May, 2014 issue of the CDC journal, Preventing Chronic Disease, PHAI\’s senior staff attorney, Cara Wilking, along with CDC researchers, Stephen J. Onufrak and Sohyun Park found that state plumbing codes were a predictor of whether and how many water fountains were available

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PHAI’s Gottlieb Calls Out FDA and White House for Failing to Aggressively Implement the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act

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In an editorial published in the May, 2014 issue of the journal, Tobacco Control, PHAI\’s Executive Director, Mark Gottlieb, calls the FDA\’s approach to implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, \”Overcautious,\” and urges the agency and the White House to take a much more aggressive approach to saving lives. The summary

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PHAI’s Gottlieb and Wilking Co-author study in JAMA Pediatrics Showing that Fast Food Giants Confuse and Deceive Kids

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  Boston – After much criticism and prodding, Fast food giants McDonald\’s and Burger King agreed to depict healthier food options in advertising directed at children.  Researchers at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, along with the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) at Northeastern University School of Law, found that attempts to honor these pledges

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