Does the area you live in feel congested? How many cars travel through your neighborhood each day? Every year? With the Tracking California Traffic tool, created by PHI’s Tracking California, users can explore estimated traffic volumes across the state. Using traffic volume estimates from 2019, users can calculate traffic volumes within 1000 meters of a selected location. The tool provides Daily and Annual Vehicle Miles Travelled estimates and Annual Average Daily Traffic statistics for a given buffer distance around the address. Explore the tool: https://lnkd.in/g-Y_NeUn
Public Health Institute
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PHI is dedicated to promoting health & equity for people throughout California, across the nation and around the world.
About us
The Public Health Institute (PHI) is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting health, well-being and quality of life for people throughout California, across the nation and around the world. As one of the largest and most comprehensive public health organizations in the nation, we are at the forefront of research and innovations to improve the efficacy of public health statewide, nationally and internationally. PHI was distinguished as one of the top 50 “Best Non-profit Organizations to Work For” by the Non-Profit Times in a national search.
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External link for Public Health Institute
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 501-1,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Oakland, California
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1964
- Specialties
- Public Health, Chronic Disease Prevention, Communicable Disease Prevention, Global Health, Capacity Building, Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drugs, Women, Youth & Children's Health, Healthy Communities, Public Health Systems, Services & Research, and Technology & Innovation
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555 12th St
Oakland, California 94607, US
Employees at Public Health Institute
Updates
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Improving indoor air quality in schools is vital, especially when so many hazards--airborne illnesses, wildfire smoke, pollution--can worsen asthma and negatively impact student health. Better ventilation and cleaner air can lead to fewer sick days, but research has also linked better air quality in schools to higher test scores and better grades. “We have made incredible gains related to food safety, sanitation and water quality. Where is air quality in this? We have ignored it, ” siad Joseph Allen, director of the Healthy Buildings Program at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
Kids Are Headed Back to School. Are They Breathing Clean Air?
scientificamerican.com
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PHI’s Rise Up program has built a powerful network of leaders working to advance gender equity and justice in education, health and economic opportunity to help achieve lasting change, including advocating for LGBTQ+ rights and protections in countries around the world. Meet some of the global Rise Up Leaders who are driving meaningful change for LGBTQ+ individuals in their communities:
Rise Up Leaders Advocate for LGBTQ+ Rights and Protections Around the World - Public Health Institute
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Last month, PHI’s California Coalition for Black Birth Justice hosted “Birth Justice & Joy,” to bring together birth equity leaders, advocates and partners to celebrate and collectively advance a mission of Black birth justice across the state. The event spotlighted the Coalition’s theme of “Unifying the Vision for Systemic Change,” and featured experts discussing racial inequities in perinatal outcomes for Black birthing families. Thanks to the Los Angeles Sentinel for covering this inspiring event:
California Coalition Hosts ‘Birth Justice & Joy’
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Wildfire smoke containing particulates--including carcinogenic smoke, carbon and heavy metals--can harm health, even long after the fire ends. Research also indicates that long-term exposure can be cumulative, leading to increased risk of harm including heart disease. Now, as the number of smoky days in the United States increases, many Americans will be at elevated risk as smoke affects them year after year, say experts. "There’s been a shift from looking at kind of daily and weekly level exposures to looking at annual or multiyear exposure since there are now chronically exposed communities," said Stephanie Cleland, an environmental health scientist and assistant professor at Simon Fraser University.
What Does Wildfire Smoke Do to Your Body?
nytimes.com
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A new study from PHI’s Alcohol Research Group (ARG) and partners finds that lower socioeconomic status is associated with higher rates of death from ischemic heart disease compared to higher socioeconomic status. Smoking, physical inactivity, alcohol use and BMI together explained 74% of the inequalities between low- and high-education groups in men and 61% of the inequalities in women. “Because unhealthy behaviors often cluster among individuals from low socioeconomic backgrounds, our results highlight the need for effective public health policies and interventions that address each of these behaviors, both separately and together, in order to reduce this disparity,” said Yachen Zhu, PhD, Biostatistician and study author with PHI's ARG.
PHI Study Looks at Socioeconomic Inequalities and Behavioral Risk Factors in Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality in the United States - Public Health Institute
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Nearly two decades after Hurricane Katrina forced 20,000 people to seek shelter in the Superdome, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the NFL are partnering to turn football stadiums across the country into emergency shelters. PHI’s Mike Sage shared insights in The Washington Post on how to support communities and individuals by ensuring that stadiums are equipped with the capacity to operate during disasters. "If you just line up cots along the football field and you have thousands of people, that’s okay for a couple of days... But if it will be long term, you need to make it more comfortable," Sage said.
NFL stadiums will soon double as disaster shelters, federal officials say
washingtonpost.com
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We're Hiring | Statement: Governor Newsom’s Passage of Legislation to Strengthen the Mental Health & Substance Use Disorder Safety Net System | PHI in the News: High Risk of Heat-Related Illness & Mortality Among Farmworkers -- all that and more, in our latest updates:
New Jobs | Statement: CA Strengthens Mental Health & Substance Use Disorder Safety Net System | Join PHI at APHA 2024
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How can local health departments build equity into outbreak response in healthcare settings? What role do partnerships play in this work? What are the most effective approaches to using and managing data to inform outbreak response and prevention? Tune in today, 11am PT to catch the latest webinar from NACCHO and PHI’s Population Health Innovation Lab MERLIN team, exploring strategic collaboration for outbreak response and prevention in healthcare settings. Presenters will discuss integrating partnerships into local health department’s data utilization strategies as well as the application of an equity framework in this work, enhancing collective reach and impact:
Webinar Series: Outbreak Response and Prevention in Healthcare Settings - Public Health Institute
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The rate of new breast cancer cases is rising faster among Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women than many other racial and ethnic groups, and especially fast among those under 50. Data also show that women in most ethnic and racial groups are experiencing declines in breast cancer death rates, but the rates among AAPI is virtually unchanged from 2000. “It’s a real trend,” said Helen Chew, director of the Clinical Breast Cancer Program at UC Davis Health. “It is just difficult to tease out exactly why it is. Is it because we’re seeing an influx of people who have less access to care? Is it because of many things culturally where they may not want to come in if they see something on their breast?”
Breast Cancer Rises Among Asian American and Pacific Islander Women - KFF Health News
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