Thomas Farley

Thomas Farley

Thomas Farley is the Commissioner of Health for Philadelphia and the former Commissioner of Health for New York City.  From 2015 to 2016 he led the Public Good Projects, a nonprofit organization that uses the power of the mass media to address the nation’s greatest health problems.  He is coauthor of Prescription for a Healthy Nation (Beacon Press) with RAND Senior Scientist Deborah Cohen, and author of Saving Gotham: A billionaire mayor, activist doctors, and the fight for 8 million lives (W.W. Norton).
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Un-Selling Sugary Drinks

Public health programs combatting obesity have mostly avoided paid counter-advertising. Why can’t the techniques of marketing un-sell soda?

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