Advocacy

Child Health Policy Activities

Letters Position Statements and Letters

TFAH Comments on USDA/FNS Proposed Nutritional Standards in National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs (April 2011)

Letter in Support of S. 1760, the Healthy Start Reauthorization Act (August 2008)
Read the letter

Letter to Accompany TFAH's Healthy Women, Healthy Babies Report (June 2008)
Read the letter


Briefings Congressional Hearings and Briefings

Testimony

Childhood Obesity: The Declining Health of America's Next Generation
Testimony of Jeff Levi, PhD, Executive Director, Trust for America's Health, Before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's Subcommittee on Children and Families (July 2008)

Briefing Presentations

Healthy Women, Healthy Babies
Presentation of Jeff Levi, PhD, Executive Director, Trust for America's Health at Congressional Briefing: Prenatal and Infancy Nutrition (July 2008)


Background Materials Background Materials

The State Children's Health Insurance Program and Obesity
Read TFAH's Backgrounder

Child Health Initiative Page

Policy Activities by Topic

Healthier America Project

Obesity

Pandemic Flu

Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness

Food Safety

Child Health

Environmental Health

Public Health Funding

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Health Disparities