Sentences with phrase «public health lobby»

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Dr. Robert Wah, president of the American Medical Association, which lobbies on behalf of doctors and promotes public health, discussed the medical industry's adoption of technology with Fortune.

In the days that followed, Alastair Furnival, Chief of Staff to Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash resigned, after it was revealed he held shares in Australian Public Affairs (APA), a lobby group whose clients include Cadbury, Kraft and the Australian Beverages Council.

So when a group of health - care workers and advocates from the Mississippi Breastfeeding Coalition asked her in January to join their movement to lobby the Legislature to allow women to breast - feed at work and in public, she jumped at the opportunity.

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Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

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It has split between the harm minimisation lobby, which has welcomed them, and the puritanical wing, whose assessment of smoking and anti-smoking policy is based on symbolism and imagery, like a Catholicism mass of public health.

At 11 a.m., groups committed to improving the health of New Yorkers call on the state Legislature to reject the proposed consolidation of public health funding, and the 20 percent cut in funding, state Capitol, third floor, outside state Senate lobby, Albany.

With the state facing its grimmest budget outlook in years, the legislative session shows signs of becoming a tug - of - war between public schools and health care — the two biggest recipients of state spending and, not coincidentally, the two heaviest - hitting lobbying forces Albany.

Other top lobbying spenders have consistently been on the list in recent years, including health care interests, the trial lawyers, and public worker unions.

«This is a hate campaign, not a public health campaign,» said Audrey Silk, the founder of Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment, who warned of conflicts if the law is enforced.

Bill Hammond: «With the state facing its grimmest budget outlook in years, the legislative session shows signs of becoming a tug - of - war between public schools and health care — the two biggest recipients of state spending and, not coincidentally, the two heaviest - hitting lobbying forces Albany.»

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

Cuomo was equally reticent when asked to respond — and if he is concerned by — a call from good government groups and others for the Public Integrity Commission to investigate whether his good friend and health care advisor Jeffrey Sachs has violated the lobbying law.

Bongiorno has 13 years of lobbying experience, representing clients before the Legislature, executive chamber, state agencies and local government, primarily in the areas of health care, insurance, human services, professional licensure, higher education and public safety.

The largest lobbying sectors — including finance, health care and transport — have spent billions to promote policies that favor narrow interests over broader public interests.

The bill's demise, says Vaughan Rees, director of the Center for Global Tobacco Control at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, also highlights the rise of intensive political lobbying in this arena.

Nuclear fuel processing, the work that would have been done at the proposed Jiangmen project, poses little risk to public health, according to industry experts and the industry lobby group, the World Nuclear Association.

United for Medical Research, a Washington, D.C. — based lobbying group, says «this meaningful increase for NIH makes real progress toward catching up from the past decade of underfunding and keeping up with scientific advancements and public health needs.»

Yet without investing more resources in skilled public managers in health care, energy systems, and national security, we are probably doomed to remain stuck in the hands of vested interests and lobbies.

«Along with other research released recently from Western Australia showing increased harms on nights when people consumed energy drinks, it is becoming more apparent about how associations between energy drink consumption and greater levels of intoxication and harm can be explained, and that the concerns of researchers regarding social order and public health appear to be warranted, despite industry lobbying to the contrary.»

Gregg Gonsalves, an audience member who had been part of the ACT UP movement in the 1980s and 1990s and is now co-director of Yale's Global Health Justice Partnership, earned a round of applause when he argued that the safety of medical products was a public policy issue that should not be dominated by lobbying from the pharmaceutical industry.

The lobbying push came after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlighted firearms - linked deaths as a preventable public health problem.

to question the science linking secondhand smoke to health risks, and lobbied against government public health reforms.

The Royal Society for Public Health is currently lobbying the U.K. government and food - and - beverage industry to try the idea on some food products.

As a founding member of Women in Balance, one of the first nonprofits in the country to advocate for women's hormone health, I helped to raise public awareness at a national level and lobbied senators on Capitol Hill for safe access to bioidentical alternatives to HRT.

Warren, who is a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee which will hold a hearing on the nomination this week, also voiced concerns over DeVos» «deep record of activism, bankrolling and lobbying for policies that would privatize public education.»

«Study group» jamborees, public pronouncements and do - nothing platitudes to the contrary, (ref) groups like the AVMA and the AKC that should be taking action for healthier pets never do — under pressure from cash - focused breeding lobbies and, perhaps, the perverse assumption that breed - related health problems constitute an important veterinary revenue stream.

One Billion Birds Butler's litany of complaints against feral cats is all too familiar: wildlife impacts (birds, in particular), public health threats, the «failures» of TNR, the powerful feral cat lobby, and the emotional / irrational nature of feral cat advocates (i.e., the classic «crazy cat lady» label).

The resort lobby area, public washrooms, meeting rooms, restaurants, Willow Stream Spa, health club and pool terraces all provide easy, unobstructed access.

The resort lobby area, public washrooms, meeting rooms, restaurants, Willow Stream Spa, health club and pool terraces all provide easy, unobstructed access for wheelchair users.

In addition to creating opportunities for people of all ages, levels and locations to have meaningful outdoor experiences, the Sierra Club works to safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and litigation.

The most senior member of his staff, Martha Embrey was working on the siliocone breast implant problem, and Carlo had registered the Breast Implant Public Health Project (BIPHP) as a Deleware company for lobbying work on behalf of Dow.

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It's very exciting to see the public health community treat it as seriously as it deserves and begin questioning how they might work within the confines of a powerful sugar lobby and sugar - loving society: Will it be setting an age limit of 17 years to buy soda pop as the report suggests?

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While our attorneys have the expertise, experience and relationships to lead lobbying efforts on life sciences and health care regulation on both the executive and legislative levels, we have found that our strategic approach to legal matters — which is based in a long Foley Hoag tradition of public sector representation and administrative law — has been well suited for collaboration with our clients» internal and external lobbyists.

Public - health bodies lobby TV shows to get their health issues included in popular narratives.

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I can't remember a new government stumble in Heath as badly as Senator Fiona Nash defunding the Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia (ADCA), siding with the food industry against public health, trashing the arrangements that Labor had made to reduce the impact of chronic disease, protecting her advisor who turned out to be associated with the lobbies.

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