PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE

PHI recognizes the importance of building healthier communities to achieve public health impacts.

PHI has long recognized that our health is largely determined by the quality of our housing, the availability nearby of grocery stores well stocked with fresh produce and of places to be physically active, our air quality, and the safety of our streets and sidewalks. Nearly all of PHI's work over the years can be viewed through the lens of improving the health of communities to prevent chronic disease and create a culture of health.

PHI has decades of experience bringing varied stakeholders together to support population-based policy, systems, and environmental change strategy development, including our pioneering Health in All Policies work and our multi-country Community Transformation Grant implementation.

Since its inception in 1964, PHI has overseen an impressive array of projects ranging from individual grants to large, multi-year, multi-site programs with national and international impact. PHI initiates projects, provides fiscal sponsorship, incubates new directions, partners with foundations and state agencies, and collaborates with others in the field, enabling research and interventions that would otherwise not be possible.

PHI offers:

-Comprehensive program planning, design and implementation
-Tailored Policy, Systems and Environmental change strategy development
-Customized trainings and workshops, both web-based and in-person
-Culturally and linguistically competent public health approaches
-Partnership development/leveraging of resources and meeting funder match requirements
-Evaluation design, consultation and study implementation
-Budgeting and program development
-Needs assessments/data support
-Community mobilization/engagement strategy
-Communications planning, messaging and implementation

PHI programs help farmworkers eat more healthily in California's Central Valley, girls gain access to education in Nigeria, and hospitals support healthier populations across the US. PHI's comprehensive operational infrastructure allows us to quickly and effectively initiate new projects, serve as a fiscal sponsor, incubate new directions, partner with foundations and state agencies, and build collaborations across sectors. Together, we are building a healthier world.

-PHI's groundbreaking California 5-A-Day-for Better Health! campaign has been adapted for use in all 50 states and internationally.

-Project LEAN's "2000 California High School Fast Food Survey" helped spur legislation that bans the sale of junk food and soda in California schools.

-Through PHI's CA4Health, more than 100 schools and community organizations across 12 California counties implemented healthy beverage standards, healthier vending machines and hydration stations.

-Cereal manufacturers changed advertising practices after PHI's Berkeley Media Studies Group published an analysis of their digital marketing to children. BMSG co-chairs the Food Marketing Work group, a national coalition working to eliminate junk food marketing to young people.

-PHI's Network for a Healthy California helped propel a 92% increase in the number of low-income Californians eating recommended levels of fruits and vegetables.