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This year’s top blogs reflect our global reach and the urgency of today’s challenges, whether strengthening health systems, reimagining public health language, preventing injuries and NCDs, or advancing gender equity. Here are 10 of our most popular Vital Stories from 2025.

Vital Strategies’ Overdose Prevention Program reflects on a year of meaningful progress, highlighting community-driven partnerships and evidence-based solutions that are helping reduce overdose deaths across the U.S. Explore 12 standout initiatives that advanced equitable, health-centered responses in 2025.

Cambodia’s Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Ministry of Health, with guidance from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative’s Data to Policy Program, have collaborated on a plan for the nationwide expansion of One-Stop Service Units for survivors of gender-based violence.

Vital Strategies collaborates with people with lived experience, practitioners, and researchers to turn lessons from the field into practical resources that can be used anywhere.

Myanmar has marked a significant milestone in protecting public health and advancing global tobacco control efforts with the successful implementation of standardized plain packaging on tobacco products.

Community-level data in Lao PDR reveal an urgent need to expand screening and treatment for noncommunicable diseases. Through mobile clinics, workforce training and public engagement, Vital Strategies and partners are helping to close critical gaps in detection and care.