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About the Public Health Institute
The Public Health Institute (PHI) is a nonprofit organization that focuses on education and strategy development to build alliances for social and economic justice. Founded in 1986 in the wake of the Bhopal tragedy in India, PHI helps labor, environmentalists, and public health groups understand each other's issues, foster positive dialogue, and search for common ground.
PHI believes that environmental, community and public health organizations want to work with labor, but need opportunities and guidance in forging those relationships. Because the labor movement can be difficult to navigate from the outside, PHI offers paths of entry and contacts.
Based in New York City, PHI designs and conducts popular educational programs on the economy, environment, health and safety, and women's issues. Over the past 15 years, PHI has worked with more than 500 organizations.
Working with the late Tony Mazzocchi, a longtime associate and visionary leader of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union (now part of USW), PHI originated and popularized the Just Transition concept and policy framework. Just Transition calls for a fair and equitable transition for workers and communities suffering dislocation as a result of environmental regulation. It is now used widely in efforts to mitigate "jobs versus environment" conflicts.
PHI is closely associated with the Labor Institute of New York, a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 to bring education to trade unions and community groups on health, safety, and economic issues.
WORKSHOPSPHI's educational programs build peer-training capacity within participating organizations. Public Health Institute staff members produce curricula on a variety of environmental issues and help worker-trainers to lead and develop their own workshops.
Current PHI workshops examine global warming and drilling in the Arctic Refuge. Sessions pair trainers from the ranks of the United Steelworkers of America and the Sierra Club.
Additional workshops address labor-environment alliance building.
Workshops use the PHI's Small Group Activity Method, which puts the learner at the center of the workshop. Participants work together to solve real-life labor and environmental problems, building upon their own skills and experiences.
For information about workshops, contact the Public Health Institute:
Telephone: 917-606-0511
Email: info@greenlabor.org
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
PHI produces comprehensive training workbooks and booklets on environmental issues. Booklets include:- Global Warming and Working People
- Our Land: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Working People and the Preservation of Public Space.
For more information or to order booklets, contact the Public Health Institute:
Telephone: 917-606-0511
Email: info@greenlabor.org
STAFF
Les Leopold, Director
Joe Anderson
Kathy Burris
Paul Renner, Esq.
Sally Silvers
Sharon Szymanski, PhD.
Rodrigo Toscano
Jean Urano
Jim Young
The PHI acknowledges the generous support of the following foundations:
The Beldon Fund
Beatrice R. and Joseph A. Coleman Foundation
Educational Foundation of America
Energy Foundation
French American Charitable Trust
The Heinz Endowments
McKnight Foundation
Nathan Cummings Foundation
New York Community Trust
Normandie Foundation
Rose Foundation for Communities & the Environment
Scherman Foundation
Tides Foundation
Tides Foundation Alki Fund
The Wallace Global Fund
