Vision StatementWhere you live affects how you live. Live in a community with parks and playgrounds, living wages, grocery stores that sell nutritious food, well maintained housing, and high quality public transit, and you’re more likely to thrive. But if you live in a community with dilapidated housing, few job opportunities, limited... read more ...transit options, and without high quality parks and grocery stores, and you’re more likely to suffer from health problems like obesity, asthma, asthma, heart disease, and high blood pressure. Investments that make communities healthier are investments that make people healthier. The PolicyLink Center for Health and Place is informed and driven by the recognition that a neighborhood’s environment – from the presence and maintenance of the local playground, to the frequency with which neighbors interact with one another, to the availability of jobs and quality affordable housing – all affect our health. The Center equips advocates with the tools necessary to push for real change -- by providing technical assistance, strategies for shaping policy, communications training, and other resources. Consistently guided by the wisdom, voice, and innovation of local constituencies, we lift up equitable practices and policies to advance the movement for healthy communities. Close |
"Building Healthy Communities Through Equitable Food Access", by Judith Bell, PolicyLink and Marion Standish
VIDEO: Keeping Kids Moving: How Equitable Transportation Policy Can Reverse Childhood Obesity
TAKE ACTION: Sign On to Support A Healthy Food Financing Initiative
Healthy Food For All: Building Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems in Detroit and Oakland - publication
Press Release: New Stimulus Funds will make Black & Latino Communities Healthier
Designed for Disease: The Link Between Local Food Environments and Obesity and Diabetes
"Strengthening What Works: Critical Provisions for Prevention and Public Health in Health Reform Legislation" (download pdf)
"Recommendations for the Prevention and Wellness Funds:"
A Memo Prepared for President Obama’s Administration (download pdf)
Promoting Healthy Public Policy through Community-Based Participatory Research
Purchase your copy of Growing Greener Cities (the book includes a chapter written by Victor Rubin, PolicyLink V.P. of Research
Watch the National roundtable explore the vital connections between transportation policy and childhood obesity


