Vital Stories

This World Environment Day, we talked to Daniel Kass, Senior Vice President of Environmental Health at Vital Strategies, on the links between COVID-19 and air pollution, and the pathway to a healthy and sustainable recovery.

Two months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, new challenges continue to emerge for local governments. This week, the Partnership for Healthy Cities webinar series focused on protecting vulnerable populations throughout all stages of the pandemic.

With COVID-19 hitting cities hard and the situation evolving rapidly, global progress against COVID will demand informed urban response.

The Bloomberg Philanthropies Partnership for Healthy Cities COVID-19 Global Leadership Series continues to meet requests from cities worldwide for technical expertise and support in this unprecedented era.

As urban public health systems continue to mount an unprecedented emergency response to COVID-19, the Partnership for Healthy Cities has responded with targeted technical support for its global network.

The Partnership for Healthy Cities is offering a range of technical support to its global network of 70 cities to boost their local response to COVID-19.

With COVID-19 spreading rapidly around the globe, cities are at the forefront of the response to this unprecedented public health crisis. The Partnership for Healthy Cities is building on existing relationships with city leaders to support their COVID-19 response with evidence-based strategies.

On International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating the work of seven mayors who are tackling the most pressing public health issues in their cities through the Partnership for Healthy Cities. Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease along with road injuries are responsible for 80% of deaths worldwide.

In Barbados, an alarming 1 in every 3 children is considered overweight or obese. Experts are looking to healthier food in schools to improve the health of children.

There’s good news in tobacco control: the latest WHO data projects a first-ever decline in the number of male smokers. But the positive trend is tempered by the tobacco industry’s continued, relentless marketing of cigarettes in low- and middle-income countries. At the same time, Big Tobacco is reaping huge profits by addicting a new generation of users to nicotine through e-cigarettes—despite concerns and many unknowns about the products’ harms.