Health Policy and Advocacy Committee - UC Davis

05/05/2011

Ashby is at the AAFP National Conference of Special Constituencies this week - follow the action on our twitter feed or visit aafp.org/ncsc

Information about the AAFP’s National Conference of Special Constituencies.

03/07/2011

Health PAC members meet with AAFP President Dr. Goertz during the CAFP legislative session this past weekend

11/15/2010

Featuring Design Sacramento 4 Health, Teri Duarte, and Dr. Ashby Wolfe!

Local governments across California are beginning to integrate health and wellness goals into their land-use planning. When the economy recovers and developers start building again, many new communities will be more pedestrian-friendly, hospitable to bicycles and built with an eye toward keeping peo

11/10/2010

What's going on in your community? Residents and medical students in the Oak Park neighborhood have been working with other neighbors to stop the building of a McDonald's across the street from the medical center. Learn more about it on the page: Healthy Development for Oak Park

11/10/2010

Do you have a suggestion for our next speaker? Speak up! We're looking for speakers for Nov, Dec, Jan, and Feb

08/18/2010

NPA is doing media training on various topics from the new health care bill to clean air bills. Check it out on www.NPalliance.org

The National Physicians Alliance (NPA) is committed to advancing the core values of the medical profession: service, integrity, and advocacy

08/13/2010

Some doctors in Massachusetts are handing out coupons for use at farmers’ markets in an effort to promote healthy eating and combat childhood obesity.

08/13/2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/business/13veggies.html?_r=1&hp

06/18/2010

A great summary of the Design Sacramento 4 Health Symposium by Daniel Weintraub

Health policy, Dr. Richard Jackson says, is about more than medical care. It is about farm policy. Transportation. Housing. And so much more. Because how healthy we are is determined largely by where and how we live. Jackson, a professor of Environmental Health Services at the UCLA School of Public ...

04/21/2010

http://www.lgc.org/events/designsac.html

"Design Sacramento For Health" Thursday, May 27 2010 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (On-site registration from 8:30 to 9:00 a.m.) Hyatt Regency Sacramento 1209 L Street (corner of 12th and L St.), Sacramento

04/21/2010

http://www.healthycal.org/sacramentos-oak-park-to-get-first-farmers-market.html

04/18/2010

State Assembly Health Committee chairman is married to a Family Physician and is focused on preventive medicine and family medicine pipeline issues.

Bill Monning is the new chairman of the state Assembly’s Health Committee. His wife, Dr. Dana Kent, is a doctor in Monterey County who has spent her life serving the poor. Dr. Kent is careful to point out that she does not advise Monning on health policy. ...