Furthering the Surgeon General’s Call to Action

Indoor Tan-Free College Campuses

• New initiative: Indoor Tan-Free College Campuses

• Supports and celebrates colleges and universities that prohibit indoor tanning practices within their campus.

• This award will create opportunities to: Follow through with two of the major goals of the Surgeon General’s Report - Goal 3:

Promote Policies that Advance the National Goal of Preventing Skin Cancer and Goal 4: Reduce Harms from Indoor tanning;

Recognize colleges and universities that make skin cancer prevention in college-aged students a priority on campus; and

Demonstrate the continued commitment of the Office of the Surgeon General to skin cancer prevention within the United States.

Requirements– Colleges and universities will voluntarily need to

demonstrate their commitment by adopting and implementing an indoor tanning-free policy on their campus.

– The initiative will fall directly under Strategy 4C of the Call to Action to Prevent Skin cancer: “Support organizational policies that discourage indoor tanning by adolescents and young adults”.

– Tan-free college campuses will thus serve as role models of institutions and communities that demonstrate a commitment to bringing the words of this Call to Action to life.

Eligibility Criteria• The universities recognized by this Surgeon General award will have demonstrated

a commitment to skin cancer prevention and the ongoing health of their students by meeting the following requirements:

– The nominated university must not have indoor tanning salons on campus or in college buildings (gyms, student centers, dormitories etc.).

– The nominated university must not have indoor tanning salons accessible in off-campus housing that is either supported or promoted by the college

– The nominated university must not allow students to use cash cards to pay for indoor tanning sessions.

– The nominated university must provide an educational program focusing on the risks of UV exposure (through sunlight and indoor tanning), and skin cancer prevention practices.

– The nominated university must have an established policy that demonstrates a current and ongoing commitment to disallowing an indoor tanning presence on campus or in sponsored off-campus housing.

Next Steps• Meeting with RADM Boris Lushniak and other OSG

staff April 2nd, 2015• Website URL: Skinsafe.org #Skinsafe• Finalize Indoor Tan-Free Policy to be implemented at

nominated university • Vet communications plan• Breakout group meetings scheduled for the fourth

Thursday of every month from 10 -11 a.m.