Health Plans Can Do Well by Doing Good
In an interview in March's Managed Healthcare Executive magazine, we bring the case for prevention to a new audience--saying that when health plans invest in quality prevention, everybody benefits. Letters to the Editor: Leslie Mikkelsen and Shakirah Simley in the Sacramento Bee (03.05.10)
EBT is good for families, farmers, and communities: Read letters to the editor written by PI's Leslie Mikkelsen and Shakirah Simley in response to an outrageous column in the Sacramento Bee.
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"WWII Program Enlisted for War on Childhood Obesity" (02.08.10)
The national school lunch program and other food programs under the Child Nutrition Act will be at the center of first lady Michelle Obama's new anti-obesity campaign. PI's Leslie Mikkelsen is interviewed in this SF Chronicle article. Letter to the Editor: "Innovative Policies Need Time To Work" (Health Affairs: 01.10)
The fast food moratoriums of today are just as innovative as the initial tobacco control policies were in the eighties; more time is needed to see their full impact. |
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- “Cost-saving prisons aren’t the California dream—prevention is.” Op-ed by Rachel Davis, published in San Francisco Chronicle (01.12.10)
- "Poverty, Poor Education Shave Years Off the Life Span," Prevention Institute listed as a resource (Business Week 1.4.10)
- The Sacramento Bee interviews Executive Director Larry Cohen, "Better habits can help trim bloated health care system" (01.02.10)
- "A New Health Care Prevention Agenda: Sustainable Food Procurement and Agricultural Policy" published in The Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition (09)
- Bay Area Dietetics Association interviews Managing Director Leslie Mikkelsen on "Setting the Record Straight: Nutrition and Health Professionals Define Healthful Food" (11.09)
- Prevention Institute and UNITY in The Denver Post (11.15.09)
- Prevention Institute Featured in the Nürnberger Zeitung (2.12.09)
- Letter To The Editor: Rachel Davis on "Focus in Chicago: Students at Risk of Violence" (New York Times: 10.7.09)
- Letter To The Editor: Rachel Davis on "Seeking Safe Passage: Curing a Public Epidemic" (Chicago Tribune: 10.7.09)
- Letter to the Editor: Janani Srikantharajah on "Roads Must be Safer for Everyone" (The Oakland Tribune: 03.18.09)
- "What's Healthy?" Prevention Institute's 'Setting the Record Straight' featured in the Atlantic and the New York Times Bitten Blog (03.26.09)
- "Bystanders can deter bullying," AZCentral interviews Prevention Institute's Annie Lyles (12.08)
- Leslie Mikkelsen interviewed by ABC news in "Will Rising Food Costs Make you Fat?" (03.18.08)
- "California Launches New Public Health Department,"