Author: Mark Gottlieb

Mark Gottlieb joined the staff of the Public Health Advocacy Institute in 1993 after graduating from Northeastern University School of Law. His efforts have focused on researching tobacco litigation as a public health strategy as director of the Tobacco Products Liability Project, reducing the harm caused by secondhand tobacco smoke through a variety of legal and policy approaches, fostering scholarship using tobacco industry documents, and, more recently, examining legal and policy approaches to address obesity. He is the Executive Director of the Institute and lives in Cambridge, MA with his wife and three children.

PHAI Submits Brief on Behalf of AMA and others to U.S. Court of Appeals for DC Circuit in Tobacco Racketeering Appeal

PHAI Amicus Brief on Behalf ot the AMA and others in Appeal of RICO case: Last year, a federal judge found the tobacco industry liable for violating RICO, the federal anti-racketeering statute, in a case filed against the industry by the United States Government. An appeal is pending in the U.S Court of Appeals for […]

PHAI Creates Newsletter

PHAI Fall, 2007 Newsletter We want to keep readers who are interested in the public health law work we do apprised of our programs and projects. To help accomplish this, we have created a newsletter summarizing some highlights. In this edition, we feature an article discussing our international human rights-based approach to tobacco control. Enjoy.

Mapping School Food: A Policy Guide

Mapping School Food looks at the problems and issues faced by school decision-makers who draft and enforce school food policies. Mapping School Food is based on interviews and case studies and is designed to help you navigate the legal and policy complexities of school food. This guide is a good first step in learning to […]

Raw Deal: A Report on School Beverage Contracts

PHAI releases national study of school beverage contracts with CSPI

Industry Controls Over Food Marketing To Young Children: Are They Effective?

By Ben Kelley The U.S. food and advertising industries maintain a system of self-regulation of marketing messages promoting the purchase and consumption of high-calorie, low-nutrition foods to children. This paper presents an extensive review and summary of global assessments of self-regulation in general, as well as of commentaries specifically addressing the world-wide state of regulation directed at food […]