Vital Stories

World Health Organization gathers Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) directors for a global meeting to support efforts to implement commitments on NCDs.

Worldwide, 300,000 women die every year due to complications from pregnancy and childbirth. Vital Strategies has helped reduce maternal deaths by in Tanzania.

With Chinese New Year coming up, our campaign in China warns against giving cigarettes as gifts to family and colleagues.

Cecilia Fabrizio, Senior Technical Advisor for the Vital Strategies Data for Health Initiative, Data Impact Program, recently travelled to Indonesia to plan for the launch of the program in Jakarta. Here, she blogs about the trip.

Nandita Murukutla, Vital Strategies Country Director, India and Director (Global), Research and Evaluation, looks at the growing body of research into how air pollution harms health.

Vital Strategies' latest round of communications training in Vietnam saw more than 140 health communicators from 63 provinces come together to learn the latest in tobacco control strategic communications.

Not all that long ago, the though of a tobacco-free generation was a mere pipe dream.

After months of negotiations, world leaders have officially signed off on the new Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations. These 17 ambitious goals with 169 targets cover everything from improving health and wellbeing, eliminating poverty and hunger, gender equality, climate action, clean energy and water, along with economic growth.

Public health experts from around the world met in Dubai, UAE in September to learn the latest in media and communications strategies.