Amos Laar, PhD, Leads Public Health Advocacy Efforts in Ghana
Dr. Laar leads the Advocating for Health Coalition. The Coalition urges adoption of taxes on sugar sweetened beverages as one policy approach to reducing rates of diet-related noncommunicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension. Dr. Laar supports “comprehensive policy measures that make unhealthy foods unattractive, and unavailable, while making healthier foods available, and attractive”.
