Vital Talks Hope Meets Reality: E-Cigarettes, a Public Health Harm or Harm Reduction? The Vital Talks 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.
Vital Talks Breaking Bondage: The Intersection of Race and Public Health This event focused on the legacy of slavery, the history of race-based health inequities and the implications for public health.
Vital Talks Putting Money to Work to Prevent NCDs During the week of the United Nations General Assembly, our Vital Talks event focussed on how fiscal policies can help prevent NCDs and realign incentives in favor of prevention.
Vital Talks Alcohol and Development 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.
Vital Talks How Mexico Stood Up to Big Soda and What Latin America Is Doing in the Fight Against Obesity 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 Talks Turning the Tide on the US Overdose Crisis Vital Strategies’ second Vital Talks event focused on one of the most pressing public health issues in the United States today: the drug overdose crisis.
Vital Talks Government and Societal Responsibility for Control of Epidemics, Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of our Resolve to Save Lives initiative, presented the inaugural talk, which focused on government and society’s responsibility for the control of epidemics, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
