Press Release on health-related topics.
March 21, 2018
by Mike Stobbe
New York Times/Associated Press
John Auerbach, president of Trust for America’s Health, a Washington, D.C. based public health research and advocacy organization, said: “The most important thing is his ability to go into the agency, get up to speed, and make the case for CDC and its vitally important work. If he’s able to do that, ultimately that’s how his leadership will be judged.”
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March 21, 2018
by Lena Sun
Washington Post
“You want someone leading the organization who has been tested,” John Auerbach, president and chief executive of Trust for America’s Health, a public health nonprofit, said late last week. “You wouldn’t want them to spend a year of their lives learning about the agency they’re overseeing. In a crisis, we need someone who can hit the ground running.”
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March 18, 2018
Philanthropy News Digest
As it has for a decade, federal funding for public health remained flat in fiscal year 2017, a report from the Trust for America’s Health finds.
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March 16, 2018
by Lena Sun
Washington Post
“You want someone leading the organization who has been tested,” said John Auerbach, president and chief executive of Trust for America’s Health, a public health nonprofit. “You wouldn’t want them to spend a year of their lives learning about the agency they’re overseeing. In a crisis, we need someone who can hit the ground running.”
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March 14, 2018
by Maggie Fox
NBC News
This year, a report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Well Being Trust found an 11 percent increase in deaths from drug or alcohol overdoses and from suicide from 2015 to 2016, and called them “despair deaths.”
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March 14, 2018
by Steven Reinberg
HealthDay
“We have released data that cover 2015 and 2016, and see that these trends have intensified,” said John Auerbach, president and chief executive officer of the Trust for America’s Health.
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March 13, 2018
by Steven Reinberg
U.S. News & World Report
“We have released data that cover 2015 and 2016, and see that these trends have intensified,” said John Auerbach, president and chief executive officer of the Trust for America’s Health.
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March 7, 2018
by Laura Santhanam
PBS NewsHour
In his organization’s recent report, Pain in the Nation, Miller, along with the Trust for America’s Health, called for a national resilience strategy to address “deaths of despair,” that in 2015 amounted to 127,500 deaths driven by drug overdoses, alcohol and suicide.
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March 7, 2018
by Dennis Thompson
HealthDay
America’s opioid epidemic is escalating at breakneck speed, with tens of thousands of overdose victims spilling into the nation’s emergency rooms seeking lifesaving treatment, a new government report shows.
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March 4, 2018
by Former U.S. Senator Tom Harkin
Des Moines Register
In today’s busy world, it is easy to eat fast food or put your daily walk off until tomorrow. However, just like a budget, if you overspend in the short term, you will fall short in the long run. Likewise, saving today will yield dividends in the end. In fact, for every dollar we invest in evidence-based prevention services, we see $5.60 in savings, according to the Trust for America’s Health. Support for health care strategies that lead to better outcomes at lower costs to taxpayers should be a no-brainer for elected officials on both sides of the aisle.
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