Vital Stories

Overdose deaths are soaring across the United States, and the rates of fatal overdose in Pennsylvania have risen significantly. Incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people are disproportionately affected by the overdose crisis.

Improving oral health is a cross-cutting issue that could strengthen health systems and improve equitable outcomes.

What accomplishments can we hope to see in Geneva that will pave the way toward global progress?

This Maternal Mental Health Month, Vital Strategies is breaking down four common stereotypes about pregnancy, parenting, and drug use.

The Global Grants Program closed its sixth round of funding with a selection of 12 projects dedicated to strengthening the collection, analysis and use of high-quality data in public health decision-making.

The Partnership for Healthy Cities committed to supporting vaccine equity through grants and technical support.

Here are six toolkits that Vital Strategies has created to help advance public health responses to the overdose crisis in the United States.

Here are five Black harm reductionists who are paving the way.

To build a more inclusive and healthier world, it’s time to start #CountingEveryone. 

A new case study and evaluation paper look at how widespread social and traditional media campaigns, which were launched in Senegal in 2013, built momentum and public support for advancing tobacco control and catalyzed government action on a bill that had been languishing in Parliament for years.