Partnership for a Healthier America | |
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Type | Non-Profit |
Focus | Health and Nutrition |
Honorary Chair | Michelle Obama, Former First Lady of the United States |
Honorary Vice-Chairs | Bill Frist, former Senate Majority Leader Cory A. Booker, Senator of New Jersey |
President and CEO | Nancy E. Roman |
Founders | Alliance For a Healthier Generation The California Endowment Kaiser Permanente Nemours Robert Wood Johnson Foundation W.K. Kellogg Foundation |
Website | www |
The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) is a nonprofit organization created in conjunction with – but separate from – former First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! effort in 2010. PHA works with the private sector to transform the food landscape in pursuit of health equity. Mrs. Obama currently serves as PHA's honorary chair, and alongside Higher Ground Productions, launched the Pass the Love w/ Waffles + Mochi campaign on March 10, 2021, with PHA to raise funds to aid in the distribution of 1 million meals to families in need around the country. Inspired by the Netflix series Waffles + Mochi, the campaign also raises awareness about food equity.
PHA employs its vast convening power, diverse network, and thought leadership to develop and spotlight the top programs and practices with the greatest potential to create positive change in the U.S. food landscape. PHA works with organizations across the supply chain – food producers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers – to improve the nutritional profile of foods and beverages wherever consumers are – resulting in a greater volume of healthier options for all. PHA also collaborates with other nonprofit organizations, such as food banks to support and amplify efforts to add high-nutrition foods to the emergency and charitable food systems, while removing low-nutrition foods, in order to t provide the right food to children and families who suffer the most from health disparities caused by lack of access to healthier food options.
Through partnerships with industry and innovative and collaborative core initiatives, PHA aims to create a world where all children, families, and adults – especially those disproportionately affected – will live healthier lives free from diet-related diseases.