Vital Stories

While much effort is already underway in tobacco control, STOP is the first partnership of its kind, dedicated solely to monitoring how tobacco companies derail policy and to supporting those who can influence these policies–like governments, health advocates, and the media.

Our Research Roundup shares the most insightful and important papers to help our partners stay abreast of advances and trends in global health practice.

Data is fundamental to Vital Strategies’ programs. From Data Impact and CRVS to clinical research on tuberculosis and epidemics to road safety initiatives and tobacco control, using evidence to strategically drive our work is the foundation of much of what we do.

Driving after drinking alcohol is remarkably common in Buenos Aires, Argentina with rates even higher among young drivers. We reached out to road safety expert Paula Bisiau, Buenos Aires’ Undersecretary of Sustainable and Safe Mobility and the city’s technical lead on the Partnership for Healthy Cities, to find out more.

Explore recent work from our obesity prevention portfolio including the latest Vital Talk and our programs in cities around the world. We support governments in implementing proven strategies, advance research to develop new ways forward, and advocate on the global level to bring greater attention to key public health issues.

When Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil in 2018, it raised a familiar problem for public health advocates: How to maintain momentum on important…

The world’s leading preventable killer—tobacco—comes center stage every year on World No Tobacco Day, May 31, bringing attention to the 7 million tobacco-related annual deaths caused by tobacco use and aiming to boost tobacco control policies and efforts.

A majority of the world’s population now lives in cities, and the trend toward urbanization is growing. Vital Strategies sees cities as engines for public health, and works across several of our programs—notably the Partnership for Healthy Cities —to engage urban governments in leading public health improvements.

Each month, Vital Strategies reviews major journals for newly published research related to our programs and priorities. Our research roundup aims to offer insight into…

More than 92% of the world’s population is exposed to poor air quality. Air pollution is the fifth leading risk factor for death and accounts for more than 5 million deaths each year globally.