Health Policy

The Keystone Center works with a broad array of stakeholders to develop consensus solutions to complex health and social policy challenges. Ranging from local to international in scope, Keystone’s work addresses topics in the areas of medicine, health care, food and nutrition, workplace safety and health, and both chronic and infectious diseases.

We design, convene and facilitate national policy dialogues, stakeholder advisory boards, fact finding and peer exchange forums, public input processes, coalition-building processes, conflict assessments, and training workshops. A partial list of client organizations includes: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Asian Development Bank, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, DuPont, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Recent health projects include:

• The Food and Nutrition Roundtable
  
  
• The Keystone Forum on Away-from-Home Foods: Opportunities for Preventing Overweight and Obesity
  
  
• Public Engagement Pilot Project on Pandemic Influenza
  
  
• CDC Rape Prevention and Education
  
  
• CDC Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances
  
  
• Youth Policy Summit on Child and Adolescent Nutrition in America (in partnership with the Keystone Science School)
  
  
• Vaccine Policy Analysis Collaborative
  
  
• Initiative to Eliminate Micronutrient Malnutrition in Asia Through Public-Private Partnership
  
  
• Workplace Safety Summit
  
  
• Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Advisory Committee
  
  
• Keystone National Policy Dialogue on Food, Nutrition and Health
  
  
• Steering Committee for the Collaborative Development of a Long-Range Action Plan for the Provision of Useful Prescription Medicine Information
  
  
• The Keystone National Policy Dialogue on Establishment of Studies to Optimize Medical Management of HIV Infection

Co-Winner of the International Association for Public Participation's 2007 Project of the Year Award:
The Public Engagement Project on Community Control Measures for Pandemic Influenza | Press Release

Meeting registration and information for Public Engagement Meetings - Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Prioritization

The Keystone Center Releases Report, The Keystone Forum on Away-From-Home Foods: Opportunities for Preventing Weight Gain and Obesity, Final Report, May 2006