Lynn Silver, MD, MPH, FAAP
Director, Getting it Right from the Start
Public Health Institute
Oakland, CA
- Clinical Professor, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Dr. Lynn Silver, a pediatrician, researcher and public health advocate, is Senior Advisor at the Public Health Institute and Clinical Professor at University of California San Francisco. She focuses on policies to prevent noncommunicable disease, its risk factors and inequitable impact. Silver was Assistant Health Commissioner of New York City under Mayor Bloomberg, leading innovative policy work such as the nation’s first trans fat ban, calorie labeling law and the National Salt Reduction Initiative and supported innovative tobacco control policies and programs. She served as Health Officer for Sonoma County, California. She founded and co-chairs the California Alliance for Funding Prevention. At the Public Health Institute (PHI) she has worked on the Berkeley coalition that lead the nation’s first successful soda tax effort, and collaborated on soda tax campaigns in other cities and states. She recently completed evaluation of the Berkeley soda tax and is evaluating San Francisco’s first of its kind warning label for SSB advertising, as well as researching other regulatory policy issues in Latin America. Her interest in local marijuana regulation arose from her experience as a public health official and belief that more public health oriented measures are needed now to protect against youth and problem use in the setting of a rapidly expanding new legal industry for a product with significant harms. She received her MD and MPH degrees and pediatric training from the Johns Hopkins University and was previously visiting scholar at the Karolinska Institute
Lynn's Web Forums
Wednesday, 11:00AM – 12:00PM Pacific Time
The State of Cannabis Policy in California, Better is Possible
Presenters: Lynn Silver , Alisa Padon , Aurash Soroosh
Monday, 11:00AM – 12:30PM Pacific Time
Mobilizing Local Cannabis Tax Revenue in the COVID-19 Era
Presenters: Lynn Silver , Michael Colantuono , Jim Keddy
Tuesday, 11:00AM – 12:00PM Pacific Time
Growing Dollars for Prevention: A California Wellness Trust
Presenters: Lynn Silver , Claudia Corchado , Shannon Ladner-Beasley
Thursday, 10:30AM – 12:00PM Pacific Time
How to Tax and to What End? Sharing a Model Ordinance for Initiatives for Local Marijuana Taxation and Prevention Funding in California
Presenters: Michael Colantuono , Lynn Silver
Friday, 12:00PM – 1:30PM Pacific Time
Sharing a Public Health Oriented Model Local Ordinance for Marijuana Regulation
Presenters: Lynn Silver , Alisa Padon , Ted Mermin , Leslie Zellers
Monday, 10:00AM – 11:30AM Pacific Time
Hypertension Prevention, Treatment, and Control: Successful Global Strategies
Presenters: Tom Frieden , Norm Campbell , Marc Jaffe , Pragna Patel