As individuals and as an organization, we at CHLPI pledge to reflect on our role in supporting, exacerbating, and failing to meaningfully question and address systemic racism. The CHLPI team pledges to recognize our role in the current model, and do better. Read our statement on racial justice here.
HLPC’s COVID-19 response initiatives ranges from promoting best practice for access to essential care, to ensuring a sound public health response by government, to keeping people at home and out of emergency rooms by addressing social determinants of health. Learn more and access our resources here.
COVID-19 continues to impact life and society in many ways, including our food systems. FLPC’s efforts to address the crisis include supporting donations of excess food due to business closures, analyzing opportunities to increase low-cost home food delivery, and shoring up emergency food systems. Learn about our efforts here.
Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic and the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition released recommendations to strengthen USDA’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program. Rates of food insecurity and threats to farmers’ livelihoods have increased sharply since the COVID-19 pandemic began. […]
In April 2020, the USDA announced it would use funds and authority under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) as well as other existing USDA funding to launch a […]
Harvard Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation and Maine Lung Cancer Coalition identify policy solutions for states to mitigate harmful radon exposure. Across the United States, a dangerous, natural gas rises from the ground and permeates through homes, schools, […]
