We are a global public health organization that designs solutions to pressing health problems. Our reach includes five international offices, a global network of leading experts and impact in 73 countries.
Vital Strategies works to influence global guidelines and to define best practices for public health. Our global advocacy highlights the evidence-driven solutions that strengthen public health systems and can improve health across wide populations.
The new brief released on the sidelines of the 2019 UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit and the High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development challenges governments to reexamine current economic incentives to industries that harm health including fossil fuels, alcohol, and tobacco.
The majority of countries simply don’t know how many children are being exposed, or how severe the exposure is. Many are ill-equipped to enforce regulations in consumer products. And, mining industries are politically powerful and exploit perceptions that development needs trump environmental health concerns.
