As 2023 comes to an end, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite photos from our work around the world.
An interviewer conducts a questionnaire about lead exposure during a home visit in Bihar, India as part of our Environmental Health division’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention program.As part of the Health Services Sector Development Program’s Health Executive Leadership Development certificate program, #Data4Health joined the University of Papua New Guinea to help train emerging, local health leaders on Data Centered Leadership – Managing with Data and Strengthening Organizational Data Use Culture. Vital Strategies to scale up data systems to improve identification of gender-based violence in Brazil https://www.vitalstrategies.org/vital-strategies-launches-commitment-to-uncover-hidden-gender-based-violence-in-brazil-at-clinton-global-initiative-2023-meeting/July 12, 2022. Village of San Luis Alto Picuaito (Nasa Indigenous community), Putumayo. Marleny Mesa Trompeta (33, center right) and her husband Andres Efrain Noscue (34, right) take part in a verbal autopsy with members of the Colombia Rural Vital team three months after their three-month-old son Eliad Noscue Mesa died due of heart and breathing complications. Their son was delivered and born through the help of a midwife in their village. After a few weeks of being born, Marleny and Andres noticed their son had a deformity in his skull and took their son to the nearest hospital in the town of Villagarzon, a 2.5-hour bus ride through muddy roads. Their son was refused medical attention at the hospital because their child was not registered. Marleny blames this lack of first medical care for his son’s medical complications that lead to his death. “If the hospital [in Villagarzon] had admitted him on the first visit, my baby would have lived.” Photo Credit: Juan Arredondo for The New York Times Magazine. Photo Credit: Juan Arredondo for The New York Times Magazine.An activation event in Johannesburg, South Africa for the “Better Labels, Better Choices” campaign calls for clearer warning labels on unhealthy, ultra-processed foods and beverages while the proposed front-of-package label regulations are open for public comment.Roz, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Harm Reduction Worker demonstrates how to administer Naloxone to someone in order to reverse a fatal overdose.Mayor Carolina Cosse of Montevideo, Uruguay launches the healthy food for public employees program as part of the Partnership for Healthy Cities.In Bangladesh, Chattogram City Corporation and the Chattogram Metropolitan Police released their first-ever road crash report, which showed that 56% of traffic deaths in the city are pedestrians.Policymakers and advocates in RESET Alcohol countries gathered in October in Cape Town, South Africa to share best practices and lessons learned, as well as opportunities to push alcohol policy forward in their countries.Our VitalTalks Live event panel discussion following the screening of the premiere of the film “Tobacco Slave”. The film exposes tobacco giant Imperial Brands and other companies through first-hand accounts from farmers in Malawi.
(L-R) Moderator Shakuntala Santhiran, an international broadcast journalist and professional moderator; Noy Thrupkaew, Reporting Fellow and Director of the Ida B. Wells Fellowship Program at Type Investigations, TED Talk speaker; Roy Maconachie, Filmmaker and Professor of Natural Resources and Development, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of BathOn World No Tobacco Day, Partnership for Healthy Cities technical lead Dr. Thriveni Beerenahally joined a local march to highlight the city’s smoke-free work in Bengaluru, India.A video on tobacco and e-cigarette harms being shown in Hanoi, Vietnam.
