VitalTalks

Cities are drivers of public health and over the past year have mounted a remarkable COVID-19 response. This VitalTalks event examines how cities are developing and implementing equitable policies and practices to safeguard health and rebuild stronger health, social and economic systems.

To mark World Cities Day 2020, the Partnership for Healthy Cities—supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the World Health Organization and Vital Strategies—hosted a special VitalTalks event on how cities are leading us through the pandemic toward a healthier world.

On the sidelines of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, Vital Strategies hosted a virtual discussion on the urgent need for more effective global food policies to combat food insecurity and promote access to safe and nutritious food.

This VitalTalks features experts from the Prevent Epidemics Team at Resolve to Save Lives: Tom Frieden, Amanda McClelland, Christopher Lee, Emmanuel Agogo, and Immaculate Nabukenya of the Infectious Diseases Institute.

The VitalTalks event features Matthew Myers, President and CEO of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and Joanna Cohen, Ph.D., Bloomberg Professor of Disease Prevention and Director of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

This event focused on the legacy of slavery, the history of race-based health inequities and the implications for public health.

During the week of the United Nations General Assembly, our VitalTalks event focussed on how fiscal policies can help prevent NCDs and realign incentives in favor of prevention.

Dutch journalist and author Olivier van Beemen joins David Jernigan and Diana Silver for a conversation about the health and social impact of the alcohol industry as well as its marketing practices across the world.

Alejandro Calvillo Unna, founder and director of Mexico’s El Poder del Consumidor (The Power of the Consumer) discussed how Mexico, succeeded in passing a soda tax that has successfully reduced consumption.

Vital Strategies’ second VitalTalks event focused on one of the most pressing public health issues in the United States today: the drug overdose crisis.