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How One City In Brazil Reduced Road Crash Deaths By A Remarkable 40%

Fortaleza Mayor Roberto Claudio recently announced that the city of 2.5 million saw a 40 percent reduction in road crash deaths in just four years, from 2014 to 2018.

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To Better the Lives of Women and Girls, Improve CRVS Systems

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Air Pollution: Where There Is Fire, There Is Smoke

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Results Of Clinical Trial Find Promise In Shorter Drug Treatment Regimen For Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis

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Pennsylvania Sheriffs’ Association Endorses Methadone and Buprenorphine for People Behind Bars
The Pennsylvania Sheriffs’ Association is formally endorsing treatment with methadone and buprenorphine for people behind bars in their on-going effort to reduce overdose deaths in Pennsylvania.
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“We are Out There 365 Days a Year”: Meet the Woman Combating Drink Driving in Buenos Aires
Driving after drinking alcohol is remarkably common in Buenos Aires, Argentina with rates even higher among young drivers. We reached out to road safety expert Paula Bisiau, Buenos Aires’ Undersecretary of Sustainable and Safe Mobility and the city’s technical lead on the Partnership for Healthy Cities, to find out more.
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STOP Tobacco Industry Watchdog Exposes Industry Allies That Undermine Public Health
A new database released by STOP (Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products) reveals dozens of groups aiding the tobacco industry in its considerable efforts to subvert public health policies.
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Spotlight: Obesity Prevention
Explore recent work from our obesity prevention portfolio including the latest Vital Talk and our programs in cities around the world. We support governments in implementing proven strategies, advance research to develop new ways forward, and advocate on the global level to bring greater attention to key public health issues.
Key Research: Obesity Prevention
Vital Strategies’ work building public health systems rests on a strong foundation of evidence. In our obesity prevention work, we support governments in implementing policies…
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Will Brazil’s Bolsonaro Administration Stall Food Labels that Could Reduce Obesity?
When Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil in 2018, it raised a familiar problem for public health advocates: How to maintain momentum on important…
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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.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies gives Pennsylvania $10 million to reduce overdose deaths
WHYY Public Media : Heller said they chose Pennsylvania as a first state in hopes that its diverse cultural geography could offer models for both rural and urban regions hit hard by high numbers of overdose deaths. In 2017, 5,400 people in Pennsylvania fatally overdosed.
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Bloomberg charity names first Pa. projects in $10 million response to overdose epidemic
Pittsburgh Post- Gazette : Following up on a $10 million pledge last fall to address the opioid epidemic in Pennsylvania, the charity founded by entrepreneur and former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced funding Tuesday for the first projects in the state.
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Bloomberg announces Pennsylvania projects in its $10M overdose-prevention initiative
The Philadelphia Inquirer : Vital Strategies, the public health nonprofit that is working with Bloomberg Philanthropies on the project, is announcing Tuesday that the money will help more than 100 hospitals to develop treatment strategies for opioid use disorder.

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How One City In Brazil Reduced Road Crash Deaths By A Remarkable 40%

To Better the Lives of Women and Girls, Improve CRVS Systems

Air Pollution: Where There Is Fire, There Is Smoke

Results Of Clinical Trial Find Promise In Shorter Drug Treatment Regimen For Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis

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