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- ENACT Day 2013
- Promoting Health, Safety, and Equity: Creating Systematic, Strategic & Sustainable Change in the Central Valley
- Changing the Mechanics: How Bikes are Transforming the Way LA Moves
- Webinar: Healthy Food on Government Property
- Walk to School Day
- National Food Day
- National Bike to School Day
- California Pan-Ethnic Health Network’s Biennial Conference
- Sugary Drinks Summit
- ENACT Day 2012
- California Pan-Ethnic Health Network's Spring Convenings
- CA WIC Association's 20th Annual Conference
- TransForm's Transportation Choices Summit
- California WALKS 2012 Conference
- Webinar - Making the Case for Healthy Food and Activity Environments: Shaping Public Debate with Framing and Messages
- Labor Across the Food System Conference
- Accelerating the Movement: SNAP-Ed to NEOP Conference
- New Series of WIC WORKS Webinars in 2012
- Webinar: The Role of Community Engagement in Creating Safe Places to Play
- Food Day 2011: October 24th
- Childhood Obesity Bay Area Conference
- PolicyLink's Equity Summit 2011
- International Walk to School Day
- FoodMed 2011
- News & Updates
- 4.2.13 A Baby-Friendly State: How California is Breaking Free of Booby Traps
- 4.9.13 California’s Cap and Trade Program: An Opportunity to Invest in Community Health
- 3.14.13 ‘Soda Cap Fizzles’ and ‘Anti-Bloomberg Bill’ Makes Headlines: The Conversation on Local Junk Food Policy
- 1.24.13 The New Coca-Cola Ads: A Strategic Retreat by Big Soda and a New Challenge for Public Health Advocates
- Joining the Chorus: Food Marketing Policy "Failures" Still Attract New Advocates to the Cause
- 09.17.12 Health Before Profits: The Conversation on NYCs Newly-Approved Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Policy
- New Resources - August 2012
- 08.21.12 Making the case for breastfeeding: Why framing matters
- ENACT Day 2012 Re-Cap
- New Resources - June 2012
- 06.08.12 The Conversation on New York's Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Proposal
- 05.29.12 New resources highlight environmental solutions to prevent chronic disease
- 05.18.12 Senators Boxer and Feinstein Sign-On in Support of The Prevention and Public Health Fund
- 05.15.12 ENACT Day Issue Spotlight: Physical Fitness Testing in Schools
- 05.15.12 ENACT Day Issue Spotlight: Health and Equity in Transportation Planning
- 05.11.12 ENACT Day Issue Spotlight: Reducing Stigma from School Lunch Participation
- 05.11.12 ENACT Day Issue Spotlight: Removing Sports Drinks from School
- New Resources - May 2012
- Joint Use Agreement Brings Wellness Center and Community Garden to South LA
- Eye on Industry: How Community Institutions Are Standing Up For Health
- 04.25.12 The Food Desert Debate: Media Round-up
- New Joint Use Profiles Highlight Community Successes
- New Resources - March/April 2012
- New Resources - February 2012
- Upcoming webinar: Learn how to frame messages to make the case for environmental change
- New "Kick the Can" Campaign Helps Make the Case Against Soda
- Just Released
- Leading by Example: First 5 L.A. Commission Gets (Physically) Active
- Food Day Builds Momentum for a Healthy and Equitable Food System
- CA Legislative Round-Up: Governor Signs Safe Routes to School Legislation!
- Rudd Center Study Reaffirms - Nutrition Claims on Packaged Foods are Misleading
- Interagency Working Groups’ Proposal on Food Marketing to Kids Does Not Violate the First Amendment
- Industry Misses Opportunities to Promote Healthful Diets
- Strategic Alliance and California Convergence Release "Leading the Way"
- Announcing Our 2011 Journalism Award Winners!
- CBS Nightly News Highlights Local Efforts in Baldwin Park
- Strategic Alliance Hosts ENACT Advocacy Day in Sacramento
- Protect Parks…for Health, Equity and Sustainability
- Take Action: AB 975 threatens investments in California community prevention efforts
- Sign on: Support NYC's Innovative Beverage Proposal
- Ask President Obama to Stand Up for Kids' Health
- Endorse "All Communities Deserve Safe Places to Play and be Active"
- Sign on to "Setting the Record Straight," Strategic Alliance's Definition of Healthful Food
- Tools
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- Press
- Strategic Alliance in the News
- Fatty Foods Pushed More On Latino Kids Amid Childhood Obesity Epidemic, Study Says (5.8.13)
- Fighting for Accurate Food Labels (10.17.12)
- "Don't Let Food Labels Fool You" (3.21.12)
- "Lightly Salted? How to Decode Food Packaging" (3.14.12)
- "US guidelines on food marketing to kids stalls" (1.27.12)
- "Soda Tax: What Can a Penny Do?" (1.9.12)
- Strategic Alliance Highlighted on Radio Show Childhood Matters (11.06.11)
- "California shut out of shocking new farm scheme" (10.26.11)
- "Reaching to the stars in an effort to reduce obesity" (10.24.11)
- "Proposed new food labels would rate nutrition" (10.21.11)
- "The Candification of Our Food: The Case of the Fruit-Less Fruit Snack" (10.20.11)
- "Strategic Alliance joins Center for Science in the Public Interest to launch Food Day 2011" (8.25.11)
- "Natural & Organic Hot Dogs Not As Healthy As They Claim" (7.15.11)
- Strategic Alliance included in Marion Nestle's "Food Advocacy: The Ultimate Guide to Getting Involved"
- "MyPlate Replaces the Food Pyramid - and Bay Area Nutritionists Celebrate" (6.2.11)
- Letter to the Editor: "Beyond the Food Labels" PI's Juliet Sims in the New York Times
- "Putting Real Fruit in the Loops" (4.29.11)
- "Claiming Health: Front-of-Package Labeling of Children's Food" in the News
- "U.S. plan aims to make school meals more healthful" (1.14.11)
- "School lunch program likely to be overhauled" (12.2.10)
- "Some not happy about schools' Happy Meal fundraisers" (10.14.10)
- "Attacking obesity by making parks safer" (9.7.10)
- Addressing Violence, Boosting Community Health (6.02.10)
- PI's Larry Cohen and CA state controller John Chiang: "Budget reforms should start with better health planning" op-ed in San Jose Mercury (5.14.10)
- "Kudos for first lady's anti-obesity campaign," Marion Nestle references Prevention Institute's 'Setting the Record Straight' (4.02.10)
- Letters to the Editor: Leslie Mikkelsen and Shakirah Simley in the Sacramento Bee (03.05.10)
- "WWII Program Enlisted for War on Childhood Obesity" (02.08.10)
- "A New Health Care Prevention Agenda: Sustainable Food Procurement and Agricultural Policy" published in The Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition (09)
- Bay Area Dietetics Association interviews Managing Director Leslie Mikkelsen on "Setting the Record Straight: Nutrition and Health Professionals Define Healthful Food" (11.09)
- "Industry unleashes millions to fight sugary drink tax" (11.5.09)
- Leslie Mikkelsen on "'Smart Choice' food label: a sign of nutrition or marketing?" (9.29.09)
- "School chef pushes fresh food" (10.9.09)
- Letter to the Editor by SA's Linda Shak: "Prevention is Key"
- "Setting the Record Straight" in the News
- "What's Healthy?" Prevention Institute's 'Setting the Record Straight' featured in the Atlantic and Mark Bittman's New York Times Blog (03.26.09)
- "Budget Brown Bag: Packing a week's worth of lunches for $20" (9.3.08)
- Leslie Mikkelsen interviewed in "Will Rising Food Costs Make You Fat?"
- Leslie Mikkelsen interviewed by ABC news in "Will Rising Food Costs Make you Fat?" (03.18.08)
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