Comments of Public Health Groups on FDA Draft Guidance Modifying Compliance Policy for Certain Deemed Tobacco Products
Read Full Comments of Public Health Groups on FDA Draft Guidance Modifying Compliance Policy for Certain Deemed Tobacco Products Excerpt: The undersigned organizations submit these comments in the above referenced Docket on the Draft Guidance for [...]
[UPDATED!] See you at NCTOH!
Counter Tools will be at the National Conference on Tobacco or Health (NCTOH) August 27th to 29th in Minneapolis, MN---will you? During the conference, we invite you to stop by our exhibitor booth (#111) to grab [...]
House Agricultural Subcommittee & FDA Letter From Public Health Groups
Read Full House Ag-FDA Letter from Public Health Groups 3.14.19 Excerpt: As your Subcommittee moves forward with the FY 2020 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, we urge you to [...]
House CDC OSH Letter from Public Health Groups
Read Full House CDC OSH Ltr from Public Health Groups 3.14.19 Excerpt: As your Subcommittee moves forward with the FY 2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, we urge you to [...]
My Place: That’s So ‘South of Shaw’
"My Place" is a series of blog posts authored by the Counter Tools team that aims to shed light on the impact place has had on each of our lives. In this My Place post, we [...]
Response to CDC Request for Information on Advancing Tobacco Control Practices
February 11, 2019 Randi Frank Office on Smoking and Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, Mail Stop S107-7 Atlanta, GA 30341 Re: Request for Information on Advancing Tobacco Control Practices to Prevent [...]
We’re hiring!
Counter Tools invites applications for a Project Director starting this March or April. Our Project Directors provide timely and high quality project management, training, and technical assistance to our client-partners working to advance place-based public health. [...]
Happy Year of Cessation
As with all new years, there has been a lot of talk about resolutions. Maybe you’ve set some goals for yourself or seen the evidence of resolution motivation in the form of lines for the treadmills [...]
Big Data For Big Good
In this post, Anna Davidson, our Director of Product & Technology, reflects on Big Data and the Internet of Things, and how we can use them for good. While attending a keynote at a recent geospatial [...]
Counter Tools Statement on Proposed Flavored Tobacco Ban from FDA
On November 15, 2018, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. proposed new steps to protect youth by preventing access to flavored tobacco products and banning menthol in cigarettes. You can read the policy framework in detail in [...]
Getting to Know Your Place Using Data
Happy Thanksgiving! In this post, Project Director Marielle Matthews is ravenous for Census data. I’ve always been captivated by Census data. Attempting to count every person everywhere in the United States and Puerto Rico?! That’s daunting. [...]
Comments of Public Health Groups on US-Japan Free Trade Agreement
Read Full Public Health Group Comments on US-Japan FTA 11.26.18 Excerpt: We are pleased to submit these comments in the above-designated docket. Our organizations are nonprofit public health and medical organizations which are actively engaged in [...]