• Barber Shop and Beauty Parlor Health Project: Multicultural Health Information Dissemination, A project to get prevention and wellness information out into our communities.
• Youth Health Literacy Initiative: A program for developing informed, engaged younger health care consumers.
• 17th Annual Pharmacy Public Health Policy Symposium: Waltham Westin Hotel 01/21/2015 7:30 am - 4:00 pm
• The 5th Women's Health Forum: Getting Healthy, Staying Healthy: Knowledge is Everything Westin Copley Boston 04/16/2015 7:30 AM - 3 PM
• State House Health Fair Ensuring that the Center of Government in MA is a healthy place by educating Legislators and their Staffs as well as State House Employees

What does my contribution to MA Health Council achieve?

Since 1920, the Massachusetts Health Council has been a leader in promulgating initiatives that improve the health status of the residents of Massachusetts. Just a snapshot ... to see more, view our History page:

2000’s

• Successful fight for Smoke Free Workplaces
• Medication awareness outreach programs
• Member of coalition that fought for and saw passage of health care reform in Massachusetts
• 6  editions of “Common Health for the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Trends in the Preventable Determinants of Health”
• Widespread promotion of  workplace wellness
• Fight for better school nutrition -- passage of school nutrition bill July 2010
• Advocating and promoting a prevention and wellness agenda for schools, workplaces, communities and government agencies
• Advocating for support and expansion of health education in schools
• Establishment of Prevention Caucus for Massachusetts State Legislature March 2011