Laura Zatz
@LauraZatz
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Senior Advisor, Behavioral Insights Team @B_I_Tweets North America Passionate about using behavioral science and policy to promote health Views are my own
Joined February 2010
(3) Encourage your city or state to create housing for homeless patients who test positive with mild symptoms and patients awaiting results. Hospitals can't admit them and shelters won't accept them back. Can your govt reopen closed hospitals, use vacant hotels/motels, etc.?
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(2b) In RI, set up PPE donations here: https://t.co/lxcLeQOWkJ…/covid-19-medical-supply-donations/ Organizations can donate here: https://t.co/ZGfPew0P45
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If you’re a lab/organization with personal protective equipment supplies to donate, you can find a searchable list of places around the US accepting donations of several types of PPE at our partner…
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(2a) Donate personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gloves, goggles, N95 masks, hand sanitizer to your local hospital, first responders, etc. Encourage construction companies, painters, museums, research laboratories, etc to donate.
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My mom is an ENT doc in MI who is taking COVID-19 swabs. How can we thank her and others who are risking their health to save lives? (1) Stay home! (Except for essential errands like grocery and pharmacy, essential jobs, healthcare, or being outside >6 ft from others). #StayHome
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Students and early career professionals, only 3 days left to apply for @APHAfood's Annual Fellowship. Receive $450 for APHA Annual Meeting expenses and join a Food & Nutrition Section Committee for 1 yr. For more info, see the call for applications:
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When it comes to fighting climate change, most thoughts turn to clean energy — from electric vehicles to solar-powered homes. But we often overlook one of the most significant sources of heat-trapping gas emissions: food.
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Philly just joined Berkeley & Navajo Nation in passing a sugary drink tax! Who’s next? #sodatax
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Senators speaking out now to #StopGunViolence: https://t.co/WkVuZEYxJQ Watch live & send a message:
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Exciting progress in Philly re: soda tax!
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Presenting the tax as a revenue source rather than as a nanny-state public health dictate puts a measure one vote away from reality.
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Good progress for US nutrition policy thx to @US_FDA 's much needed updates to the Nutrition Facts label
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How do we get more MDs talking about healthy eating and active living? Check out @BPC_Bipartisan's new white paper: http://t.co/GftQ8xUrtO
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Former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala discussing healthy campuses at #PHASummit. http://t.co/O6Bxuihin5
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Health initiatives can save money, boost readiness http://t.co/y7hY4BFY6c via @BPC_Bipartisan
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New on our blog: An Ounce of Prevention—Prevention’s Value in Curing Our Health Care Spending Woes http://t.co/vihDp6Ve1N
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Check out our commentary in @HealthyAmerica1’s report: The Value of Prevention in Improving Health and Cutting Costs http://t.co/v8N32yRvH0
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