2018-11-12T06:58:07-08:00 2017-12-31 521734221 Neuman Pollak & Assoc PA 124 Slade Ave Ste 110 Baltimore MD 21208 990 2017-01-01 522257066 TRUST FOR AMERICAS HEALTH TRUS 2022239870 1730 M STREET NW SUITE 900 WASHINGTON DC 20036 JOHN AUERBACH President & CEO 2018-11-12 true CRAIG H NEUMAN P00510826 4106020500 2017 2019-02-21 02:37:17Z JOHN AUERBACH 3358076 false false X www.tfah.org X 1998 DC Trust for Americas Health promotes optimal health for every person and community and makes the prevention of illness and injury a national priority. 12 12 19 0 5343411 2959820 26844 0 60428 117906 0 5430683 3077726 0 0 1781595 2224212 0 163962 1481198 1761496 3262793 3985708 2167890 -907982 9061213 8669548 231636 706267 8829577 7963281 Trust for Americas Health promotes optimal health for every person and community and makes the prevention of illness and injury a national priority. false false 3474557 In 2017, Trust for Americas Health (TFAH) continued to advance its mission to promote optimal health for every person and community and make the prevention of illness and injury a national priority. As a nonprofit, nonpartisan public health policy, research, and advocacy organization, TFAH set forth a vision of a nation that values the health and well-being of all and where prevention and health equity are foundational to policymaking at all levels of society. Across the range of public health issues TFAH addressed, including obesity, substance misuse and suicide, public health emergency preparedness, prevention and public health policy, public health financing, chronic illness, and infectious disease, TFAH promoted public health policies that affect the entire nation, with an emphasis on how public health policies and programs can promote healthy individuals and communities regardless of geography.TFAH maintains and enhances its work with traditional and new partners on high-impact health issues. Throughout its efforts, TFAH is also committed to advancing health equity and addressing the social determinants of health which are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, including through collaborative, multisectoral approaches. TFAHs work is guided by values of equity, independence, evidence-based, trust, partnerships, innovation, and financial stewardship.TFAHs projects focused on advancing an evidence-based public health system that is ready to meet the challenges of the 21st century. TFAH successfully published evidence-based reports; developed and advanced effective policy recommendations and approaches; hosted policy convenings and learning collaboratives; spearheaded targeted initiatives and outreach; collaborated with partners at the national, state, and local levels; and produced educational resources. For example, TFAH continued its partnership with the Healthy Schools Campaign on co-leading the Healthy Students, Promising Futures Learning Collaborative to support states in expanding school health services and promoting healthy school environments and its collaboration with the American Hospital Association to strengthen state hospital association and state health department collaboration on priority population health issues such as the opioid crisis, diabetes, and maternal mortality.Among TFAHs accomplishments in 2017:TFAH released a groundbreaking new report, Pain in the Nation: The Drug, Alcohol, and Suicide Crises and the Need for a National Resilience Strategy, responding to the dramatic increase in the death rates for these three epidemics. The report examined the data of drug overdose deaths, alcohol-related deaths, and suicides, projected the potential impact over the coming decade, focused on promising practices and evidence-based policies and interventions, and highlighted action steps for the future. The action steps include a call for the creation of a National Resilience Strategy that takes a comprehensive approach by focusing on prevention, early identification of issues, and effective treatment.TFAH embarked upon new initiatives to address emerging public health issues, including an initiative to promote the health and well-being of older adults by advancing an age-friendly public health system. TFAH convened national, state, and local public health officials; aging experts, advocates, and service providers; and healthcare officials to explore how public health can improve the health and well-being of older adults. The convening resulted in the development of a Framework for an Age-Friendly Public Health System that describes key roles public health can adopt to improve the health and well-being of older Americans. TFAH has expanded beyond this feasibility analysis to further develop the Framework and engage local and state public health in Florida and across the nation in efforts to promote healthy aging.With states both serving as key partners and having increasing responsibility for many health policies and programs, TFAH launched Promoting Health and Cost Control in States (PHACCS), a new project aimed to inform state policymakers and public health advocates of effective state polices to improve health and control costs. The PHACCS project focuses on state level policies that can be adopted and implemented to promote health and control cost growth. PHACCS looks beyond healthcare to foster cross-sector collaboration, recognizing impacts in other sectors can impact population well-being, impact disparities and equity, and impact states strategies to control costs.TFAH published and disseminated a series of reports and issue briefings, including:1.The State of Obesity 2017: Better Policies for a Healthier America: This 14th annual report by TFAH and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation summarized national and state level obesity trends and documented that adult obesity rates are showing signs of leveling off, but that progress could be eroded if programs are cut and policies are weakened.2.Ready or Not? Protecting the Publics Health from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism, 2017: This report found that the nation does not invest enough to maintain strong, basic core capabilities for health security readiness. The report includes a review of state and federal public health preparedness policies and a series of recommendations that address many of the major gaps in public health emergency preparedness.3.Pain in the Nation: The Drug, Alcohol, and Suicide Crises and the Need for a National Resilience Strategy: This report examined the data of drug overdose deaths, alcohol-related deaths, and suicides, projected the potential impact over the coming decade, focused on promising practices and evidence-based policies and interventions, and highlights action steps for the future, including calling for the creation of a National Resilience Strategy. 4.A Funding Crisis for Public Health and Safety: State-by-State Public Health Funding and Key Health Facts, 2017: This report summarized public health funding at both the national and state level and key health facts in states and includes recommendations for ways in which public health funding needs to be increased.5.Special Analysis: How Healthy Is Your Congressional District?: This analysis is a one-year snapshot of seven preventive health measures for each congressional district, for each state, and the District of Columbia, which serves as a resource of information on the health of a congressional district or state.6.Issue Brief: Impact of the 2017 Health Reform Proposals on Clinical Preventive Services: This brief reviewed the current status of public and private insurance coverage of preventive services, and the implications if they were eliminated or reduced.7.Special Analysis: Prevention and Public Health Fund Federal and State Allocations: This analysis is a state-by-state analysis of the potential loss of funding from the Prevention and Public Health Fund if the Fund were reduced and the potential public health impacts.8.Issue Brief: National Survey of Registered Voters on Public Health: This survey is a national survey of registered voters that found that nearly three-quarters of Americans support increasing investments to improve the health of communities. 3474557 true true false true false false false false false false true false false false true false true false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 25 0 true 19 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 12 12 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false X X J Nadine Gracia 2022239870 1730 M STREET NW STE 900 WASHINGTON DC 20036 Stephanie Mayfield Gibson MD Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 David Lakey MD Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 ROBERT T HARRIS MD Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 EDUARDO SANCHEZ MD MPH Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 CYNTHIA M HARRISPhD Vice Chair 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DAVID FLEMING MD Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 OCTAVIO N MARTINEZ JR MD DPH Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 THEODORE SPENCER Secretary 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Karen Remley MD MBA Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Gail Christopher DN Chair of Board 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Umair A Shah MD MPH Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Vincente Ventimiglia JD Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JOHN AUERBACH MBA President & CEO 40.00 0.00 X 269371 0 26262 RICHARD S HAMBURG MPA Exec. 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Reg. 1.170A-9(e)(3) in the following respects:10% of Support Limitation. TFAHs public support fraction of 18.14% exceeds the 10% threshold.Attraction of Public Support. TFAH is organized and operated to attract new and additional public support on a continuous basis. During fiscal year 2017, TFAH received funding from new sources, including the John A. Hartford Foundation and Well Being Trust, additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for a new state policy project, and ongoing funding support from The California Endowment, the Dawn Hill Fund, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Sources of Support. TFAHs funding comes from diverse sources of support, including a representative number of private foundations and other organizations and individuals that wish to support its mission and programs. Representative Governing Body. TFAHs activities are governed by a Board of Directors, reflecting a broad range of individuals with experience and expertise in managing and operating a nonprofit educational organization focused on public health issues. TFAHs governing body includes individuals with significant experience in the areas such as government, academia, the non-profit sector, and public health. Furthermore, members of the Board have served, or currently serve, on the governing bodies of corporations, charitable foundations, and other section 501(c)(3) organizations. Availability of Public Facilities or Services; Public Participation in Programs or Policies.TFAHs work toward improving the nations public health capacity includes non-partisan research and analysis, policy development, publication of numerous science-based reports, and outreach and educational activities about the need for a robust, effective public health system that is prepared to respond to a wide range of health threats. TFAHs 2017 reports, which were distributed widely to policymakers, the media, and the public, included:1)The State of Obesity 2017: Better Policies for a Healthier America2)Ready or Not? Protecting the Publics Health from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism, 20173)Pain in the Nation: The Drug, Alcohol, and Suicide Crises and the Need for a National Resilience Strategy4)A Funding Crisis for Public Health and Safety: State-by-State Public Health Funding and Key Health Facts, 20175)Special Analysis: How Healthy Is Your Congressional District?6)Issue Brief: Impact of the 2017 Health Reform Proposals on Clinical Preventive Services7)Special Analysis: Prevention and Public Health Fund Federal and State Allocations8)Issue Brief: National Survey of Registered Voters on Public Health false false 9762 145011 154773 3319784 3474557 323728 80932 false 281634 289317 294412 323728 1189091 1783637 147440 164052 134112 154773 600377 70409 72329 73603 80932 297273 445910 7052 6848 6052 9762 29714 163367 6807 156560 328909 208639 120270 119588 102920 16668 293498 DEFERRED LEASE OBLIGATIONS 389020 389020 3119412 41686 41686 3077726 3077726 3985708 3985708 3985708 X true true X X X X X false false false false false false false false false false ANNE DE BIASI DIR POLICY DEVELOP 197429 7021 13832 218282 JOHN AUERBACH MBA President & CEO 269371 10847 15415 295633 LAURA SEGAL VP PUBLIC AFFAIRS 220049 9023 17772 246844 REBECCA SALAY DIR GOVT RELATIONS 149624 6031 7836 163491 RICHARD S HAMBURG MPA Exec. VP & COO 265140 10868 29891 305899 Part I, Line 1a: Relevant information in regards to selections on 1a. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process Copies of the 990 were reviewed by outside legal counsel, and the Board's Treasurer/Finance and Audit chair, who reviewed the documents on behalf of the organization. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts Trust for America's Health requires that each board member and officer annually (1) review the Corporation's Conflict of Interest Policy; (2) disclose any possible personal, familial, or business relationship that reasonably could give rise to a conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest; and (3) acknowledge by his or her signature that he or she is acting in accordance with the letter and spirit of such Conflict of Interest Policy. Completed questionnaires are available for inspection by any board member and may be reviewed by the Corporation's legal counsel. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management Compensation for the President and CEO is determined by the Board of Directors. For all other staff, including senior management, the President and CEO submits to TFAHs Finance, Audit and Compensation Committee recommendations for compensation adjustments for TFAH staff. The Board of Directors then reviews the recommendations and makes final determinations of any salary adjustments. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Trust for America's Health makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request. Any expenses related to mail or providing this information to the public is borne by the organization.