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A panel of experts gathered in Adama in May 2026 to review and finalize Ethiopia's new guideline for preventing and managing lead poisoning, marking an important first step as the country advances its efforts toward a lead-free future.

Across India, healthcare workers are increasingly becoming the first line of support for tobacco cessation. Through Vital Strategies’ collaborative Cessation Program, small actions taken every day by frontline providers are building a larger movement toward a tobacco-free future.

Dr. Tim McAfee discusses Vital Strategies' new tobacco cessation report. The report proposes an “ecosystem” approach that treats cessation support not as a single program or clinic but as an inter-related system.

For World No Tobacco Day 2026, tobacco control advocates united around the theme “Unmasking the Appeal: Countering Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction.” Vital Strategies collaborated with grantees and partners around the world on campaigns, workshops and activations, many of them focused on youth, to highlight this issue and support governments to rein in predatory industry marketing.

At a side event during the World Health Assembly, the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative hosted a panel of experts from government, WHO and the CDC Foundation who discussed how death data has informed effective public health policies around the world, and the most strategic approaches to move decision-makers to invest in CRVS.