Mary Pittman

Public Health Institute

Mary Pittman, DrPH, is President and CEO of the Public Health Institute, one of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive public health organizations. PHI has recently established the Center for Public Health and Climate Change.

Passing the Children’s Act In Liberia: A Story from the Adolescent Girls’ Advocacy and Leadership Initiative

Mary Pittman

For hundreds of years, to be a girl in Liberia was to be relatively powerless. To address that, advocates helped the Liberian Senate sign the Children's Rights Act into national law in 2011.

Why the International Climate Negotiations in Durban Matter for Women

Mary Pittman & Kavita Ramdas

Who bears the brunt of the increasingly steep costs of “global weirding” as the world’s weather goes haywire? Women and their children. And who may be the key to stopping global warming, and to helping communities around the world adapt to the damage that has already been done? Yes, women too.

Mary Pittman

Passing the Children’s Act In Liberia: A Story from the Adolescent Girls’ Advocacy and Leadership Initiative

Why the International Climate Negotiations in Durban Matter for Women

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