After FDA’s Menthol Announcement, PHAI’s Gottlieb and Daynard Consider Next Steps
In an op-ed published today in the Boston Globe, a day in which FDA announced it’s intention to issue regulations to ban menthol cigarettes, PHAI’s executive director and president consider what the next steps in tobacco prevention should be. Gottlieb and Daynard suggest that: The FDA should also remove menthol flavored e-cigarettes from the market. […]
#UnitedOnGuns’ Sarah Peck and Northeastern’s James Alan Fox Consider Federal Policy to Help Mayors Deal with Mass Shootings
In an op-ed published today in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Sarah Peck, director of PHAI’s #UnitedOnGuns initiative along with Northeastern Professor James Alan Fox take a very practical approach to help mayors respond to mass shooting events, which have become all too common. While federal legislation mandating universal background checks and other measures remain trapped in political gridlock, […]
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Over 40 Years of Innovation to Improve Public Health PHAI, based at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, spearheads a range of important public health advocacy and research initiatives. These include: a non-profit public health law firm that has taken on the tobacco, vape, and sugary drink industries; a public health policy support program, particularly focusing on tobacco […]
E-Cigarette Claims
The epidemic of nicotine vaping has resulted from a massive misrepresentation from the e-cigarette industry. Individual companies and industry representatives have implied that these products are harmless. That they are cool. That they can help you quit smoking. They have not disclosed that they have been designed to use chemistry, flavor science, and electronics to […]
Reducing Digital Marketing of Infant Formulas
This report explores the policy frameworks and self-regulatory bodies that govern the use of sensitive consumer information about pregnancy and infant feeding used to market infant formula.
PHAI Takes Action Against Puff Bar for Violating Massachusetts’ Ban on Flavored e-Cigarettes
CONTACTS: Mark Gottlieb Meredith Lever (617) 216-0779 (617) 373-8066 mark@3.228.1.30 meredith@3.228.1.30 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Puff Bar Charged With Violating Massachusetts’ Ban on Flavored e-Cigarettes In direct violation of state law, Puff Bar sells flavored, disposable e-cigarettes that appeal to teens BOSTON, MA (June 11, 2020) – Today, the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) at Northeastern […]
PHAI’s Sarah Peck pens op-ed urging a stop to active shooter drills in schools
Sarah Peck, Director of PHAI’s #UnitedOnGuns initiative, recently authored an opinion piece published by the South Florida Sun Sentinel entitled: Profiting from protecting kids is wrong. Halt active shooter drills in schools. In it, Ms. Peck raises the concern, shared by many, that active shooter drills in schools can traumatize children. She notes that 42 […]
PHAI’s Sarah Peck pens op-ed supporting a federal “red flag” law
Sarah Peck, Director of PHAI’s #UnitedOnGuns initiative, recently authored an opinion piece published by The Hill entitled: A federal red flag law would save lives and give Trump a much needed win. Ms. Peck notes that both red and blue states have enacted some version of these laws, also known as “extreme risk protection orders.” […]
PHAI’s Gottlieb Pens Commentary: “How The Opioid Settlement Could Truly Help The Addicted”
On July 9, 2019. the WBUR (Boston NPR affiliate) opinion blog, Cognoscenti, published an opinion piece penned by PHAI’s executive director seeking to leverage any forthcoming settlement of the the more than 2,000 lawsuits pending against opioid pain manufacturers, their distributors, and their retailers to create an independent foundation to help coordinate a national response […]
These Youth Will Not be Fuuled: An overview of the 2019 Altria Group Annual shareholders Meeting
By Edward L. Sweda, Jr., PHAI Senior Attorney Five months before Howard A. Willard III presided for the first time over the Altria Group annual shareholders meeting in Richmond, Virginia, the company carried out a business plan that dominated the discussion at the meeting. On December 20, 2018, Altria Group announced it had spent $12.8 […]
