1. American Academy of Pediatrics:
Committee on Communications
601 13th Street, NW, Suite 400 North
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-393-6137
FAX: 202-393-6137
Email: PUBREL@aap.org
http://www.aap.org/visit/cmte11.htm
AAP's Committee on Communications develops policy recommendations to educate pediatricians and the public about the impact of media on children and adolescents, including television, advertising, commercialism, video and computer games, and music lyrics. The Committee is concerned that media influences today are normalizing drug use, including tobacco, alcohol, and other illicit drugs for youth. The Committee has developed a curriculum called 'Media Matters,' actively encourages media education, and is in the process of training 58,00 pediatricians accordingly.
2. Berkeley Media Studies Group
2140 Shattuck Ave., Suite 804
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: 510-204-9700
FAX: 510-204-9710
Email: dorfman@bmsg.org
Contact: Lori Dorfman, Co-director
The Berkeley Media Studies Group believes that the mass media, especially the news, have a significant influence on people's beliefs and actions regarding public health and social issues. Their mission is to work with community groups, journalists and public health professionals to use the power of the media to advance healthy public policy. In order to better understand how news, entertainment, and advertising present health and social issues, BMSG monitors the media, studies the process of news gathering, and analyzes media content to support media advocacy training, professional education and strategic consultation.
3. Center for Science in Public Interest
1875 Connecticut Ave NW #300
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: 202-332-9110 x385
FAX: 202-659-8484
Email: cspi@cspinet.org
http://www.cspinet.org
Contact: Michael Jacobson, Co-founder The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is a nonprofit education and advocacy organization that focuses on improving the safety and nutritional quality of the nation's food supply and is campaigning to ban beer ads on television. CSPI seeks to promote health through educating the public about nutrition and alcohol and plays hosts to a variety of campaigns on health and advertising. Among them include, Shareholders of Anheuser-Busch for Advertising Reform, Olestra Action Alert (urging members of congress to support the repeal of olestra), and the health education program on consumption of milk.
4. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, Rockwell II
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 800
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 301-443-0373
Email: nnadal@samhsa.gov
http://www.samhsa.gov/csap/
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's (CSAP) mission is to provide national leadership in the Federal effort to prevent alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug problems. CSAP connects people and resources to innovative ideas and strategies, and encourages efforts to reduce and eliminate alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug problems both in the United States and internationally.
5. Join Together: A National Resource for Communities Fighting Substance Abuse
One Appleton Street, 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02116-5223
Phone: 617-437-1500
FAX: 617-437-9394
Email: info@jointogether.org
http://www.jointogether.org/jto/
Founded in 1991, Join Together supports community-based efforts to reduce, prevent, and treat substance abuse across the nation. It is funded by a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to the Boston University School of Public Health.
6. Violence Policy Center
1350 Connecticut Ave. NW, #825
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-822-8200
www.vpc.org
Contact: Josh Sugarmann, Director
The Violence Policy Center researches and provides policy analysis on gun violence as a growing public health crisis. The Center has extensively studied the firearm industry's marketing and advertising campaigns aimed at women and other segments of the public.