Petrie-Flom Center | Soda Taxes and Other Policy Responses to the American Obesity Epidemic

In recent years, some cities have tried to impose soda taxes and other new policies to reduce the obesity epidemic in the US—particularly among children—and its critical impact on society and the health care system. How effective are these policies? What is blocking their uptake? What alternatives should we consider?

Panelists in this discussion included:
– Emily Broad Leib, clinical professor of law, founding director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, and deputy director of the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation
– Steven Gortmaker, professor of the practice of Health Sociology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
– Carmel Shachar, executive director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School


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