Spotlight Promoting Health. Preventing Harm. Protecting Communities. Discover how data, policy, and partnership are shaping healthier futures in our latest Impact Report, highlighting bold solutions that are transforming public health. Vital Strategies
Vital Stories Counting Every Birth and Death by 2030: Inside a Landmark Commitment in the Asia and Pacific Region
Vital Stories Toolkit Resources for Overdose Prevention 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.
Press Room Alcohol Taxation Saves Lives: New Guide Outlines Six Tax Principles for Governments to Reduce Alcohol Harms Economics for Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as part of the RESET Alcohol initiative led by Vital Strategies, released “Principles of Alcohol Taxation,” a policy note for governments that outlines six key principles for the design and implementation of effective alcohol excise taxes.
Vital Stories Myanmar Implements Standardized Plain Packaging to Curb Tobacco’s Appeal 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.
Vital Stories Community Surveillance Data on Noncommunicable Diseases Reveal Urgent Need for Action in Lao PDR 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.
Spotlight At the World Health Summit: Advancing Public Health Through Better Data The World Health Summit in Berlin reinforced a shared conviction: Better data is the foundation for effective public health systems. Vital Strategies joined partners in highlighting how stronger health data systems can inform policy change, drive disease prevention, improve equity and make health systems more responsive to the people they serve.
Press Mentions ‘In India, real opportunity lies in enhancing cancer screening to detect cases early and ensure timely treatment,’ says Mary-Ann Etiebet of Vital Strategies The Indian Express: “With population-based cancer registries, countries can plan prevention, strengthen detection, improve care, and evaluate cancer control activities.”…
Press Mentions World Health Summit | 45 million deaths go unrecorded globally every year, new campaign urges investment in vital statistics systems The Indian Express: The lifesaving Potential of Death Data highlights the global challenge of unrecorded deaths and the lifesaving potential of reliable cause-of-death data.
Vital Stories Lives in Focus: How innovation in cancer registries is advancing national cancer control plans and patient outcomes At our World Health Summit 2025 event, global experts explored how cancer registry innovation advances national cancer control plans and improves health outcomes.
CEO Perspective Centering the Public in Public Health Public health is facing a trust crisis. In this reflection, our CEO and President Mary-Ann Etiebet explores how rebuilding that trust through listening, better communication, and people-centered data systems can strengthen the bond between science and society.
Press Room New survey shows climate change already affects the daily life of the population in the Legal Amazon A new survey by Umane and Vital Strategies reveals that one in three people living in Brazil’s Legal Amazon region say they have already been directly affected by climate change, a figure that rises to 42% among Indigenous peoples and traditional communities. The findings highlight growing impacts on daily life—such as rising temperatures, air pollution and food prices—and underscore the vulnerability of populations that depend on natural resources for survival.