May 27, 2022 – As the mass shootings continue, UnitedOnGuns’ Director, Sarah Peck, was interviewed on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered on May 21, 2022 regarding the mass shooting in Buffalo, NY and on May 26, 2022 in the wake of the mass murders in the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas and the resources for mayors produced by PHAI.
September 22, 2021 – Northeastern University’s News@Northeastern has published a Spotlight on our UnitedOnGuns Initiative’s Playbook for Mayors Facing Mass Shootings
June 10, 2021 – In new op-ed, Sarah Peck and James Alan Fox look at the lingering trauma 5 years after the Pulse Nightclub shooting.
Reducing Digital Marketing of Infant Formulas
How do marketers identify expectant parents and infant caregivers?
What digital marketing tactics are used to promote infant formula?
PHAI’s Sarah Peck pens 2 op-eds: (1) supporting a federal “red flag” law and (2) urging a halt to active shooter drills in schools.
Gottlieb pens commentary: How The Opioid Settlement Could Truly Help The Addicted

PHAI team wins $17.5 million verdict in wrongful death of Winston smoker in Massachusetts. See Boston Globe coverage

PHAI prepares Lawsuit Against Juul Labs to pay for treatment of MA teens who want to quit See our Press Release; Coverage by the Boston Globe; and WBUR Boston interview with Mark Gottlieb

New Lawsuit Alleges Coca-Cola, American Beverage Association
Deceiving Public About Soda-Related Health Problems
PHAI Supports a Tobacco Free Generation
Recent posts of note:
- Reboot: FDA Takes Harm Reduction Approach to Tobacco
- No More Heart Health Valentines from Coke – PHAI Investigates Coke’s “Heart Health” Funding
- Are Daily Fantasy Sports Illegal Gambling in Massachusetts?
- PHAI Submits Comments on Proposed Fantasy Sports Regulations in MA
- PHAI Urges HUD to Expand Proposed Smoke-free Public Housing Rule to All HUD-Funded Housing
- Coke Struggles to Balance Funding of Favorable Science, Ethical Commitments to Transparency, and a Goal of Transforming the Debate Over Soda and Health
- PHAI’s Chris Banthin Quoted in Boston Globe Article on Smokefree Homes
- PHAI’s Center for Public Health Litigation Featured in Boston Globe Article
- New PHAI study in AJPH focuses on the tobacco industry’s use of personal responsibility rhetoric, how its legal defense strategies inform its public relations messaging
- PHAI Takes Cigarette Companies to Court
- PHAI’s Gottlieb and Wilking Co-author study in JAMA Pediatrics Showing that Fast Food Giants Confuse and Deceive Kids
- Historic $79 Million Cigarette Settlement Signifies Beginning of Wave of Tobacco Cases in Massachusetts
- PHAI publishes new resource: http://SmokeLitigation.org;
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