Press Room Statement from Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet, President and CEO of Vital Strategies, on the release of WHO Global Tobacco Control Report: Read our statement from Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet, President and CEO of Vital Strategies, on the release of WHO Global Tobacco Control Report.
Press Room New Data Modeling Tool Strengthens Growing Calls for Tobacco Taxes to Address Health Financing Crisis CoRRE–an interactive data modeling tool–builds country-by-country scenarios to demonstrate how tobacco taxes generate millions in revenue and can help countries recover millions in smoking-related costs.
Press Room Vietnam Advances Lifesaving Tax Reforms on Tobacco, Alcohol and Sugary Drinks "Health taxes on all unhealthy goods—tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed products like sugary drinks—save lives, reduce health care costs and generate revenue."
Vital Stories More Than Infrastructure: Building Inclusive Cities with Community Voices In Indonesia, the cities of Surabaya and Makassar are taking bold steps to answer this question. As part of their post-COVID recovery plans, both cities have prioritized sustainable urban mobility.
Press Room FIFA Under Pressure to Kick Big Soda Out Amid Health Backlash – Vital Strategies A powerful coalition of global health experts and advocates is calling on FIFA to end its decades-long partnership with Coca-Cola through the Kick Big Soda Out campaign.
Vital Stories Protecting Indonesia’s Children: National Support Grows for Tougher Tobacco Control High-level meeting with Vice President Gibran and child protection leaders signals growing momentum for stronger tobacco taxes, ad bans, standardized packaging, and smoke-free environments.
Vital Stories Confronting the Tobacco Burden in Timor-Leste: Mayors Unite at the Second Summit of the Mayors Alliance for Health and Development Ten mayors from across Timor-Leste took a major step toward reducing tobacco use in their municipalities by endorsing bold, new tobacco control measures at the Second Summit of the Timor-Leste Mayors Alliance for Health and Development.
Spotlight Alcohol Taxes for Public Health: The Watchword is Progress At the second annual Partner Meeting of the RESET Alcohol initiative, over 60 participants from four countries and key international organizations shared critical advances and learnings from two years of groundbreaking alcohol policy work.
Press Room After Enduring the Tragic Loss of Her Brother and Cousin to Drug Overdoses, a Courageous Milwaukee Woman, Shunda Garrett, Defied the Odds and Saved a Stranger’s Life With Naloxone "Everyone must realize that they need to have naloxone on them to save a life.”
Press Room New study reveals that race is the main factor of discrimination in Brazil 84% of Black respondents have suffered racial discrimination in the country, according to a study that applied, for the first time at the national level, the Everyday Discrimination Scale, a tool developed to measure the perception of discrimination experienced by individuals in their day-to-day lives.