Vital Stories If These Roads Could Talk: Eight Cities Honor Victims of Road Crashes on World Day of Remembrance From art installations in Bogotá, Colombia, to citywide billboard campaigns in Mumbai, India, 8 cities called for more action on road traffic crash prevention on World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
Vital Stories TREAT TB highlights its work at this year’s World Conference on Lung Health At the Union’s 49th World Conference on Lung Health, TREAT TB shared progress made, discussed best practices and lessons learned with global tuberculosis (TB) stakeholders.
Press Mentions Mumbai road deaths in 2017 lowest in 5 years, night speeding worst killer The Times Of India: Deaths in road crashes in Mumbai last year were the lowest since 2013, but speedsters need to be reined in if data with Mumbai traffic police is anything to go by.
Press Room New Campaign in Mumbai Shows Life-Saving Benefit of Helmets Mumbai, India, is one of 10 cities that is implementing a variety of measures proven to save lives on the roads through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety.
Press Room Statement from Dr. Neil Schluger, Senior Advisor for Science at Vital Strategies, on the FDA’s proposal to restrict flavored tobacco products Statement from Dr Neil Schluger, Senior Advisor for Science at Vital Strategies, on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s proposals to restrict flavored tobacco products, including a potential ban on menthol in cigarettes, and restrictions on the sale of fruit- or sweet-flavored e-cigarette liquid.
Press Mentions Programme seeks to raise Jordan’s new `smoke-free’ generation Jordan Times: In a society where peer pressure accounts for one of the main reasons behind addictive behaviours, children and teenagers are the first at risk of picking up smoking and drug abuse, psychologists agreed in various reports.
Press Room Vital Strategies Receives Award for Global Media Campaign on Road Safety Vital Strategies was honored at the International Safety Media Awards at the World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety in Bangkok, Thailand.
Press Mentions GHS launches medical e-learning training video Ghana News Agency: Apart from the fact that the approach involved substantially lower implementation cost compared to face-to-face training, it further provided physicians who took the course with the same set of skills that would translate into having comparable standards in cause of death statistics across different countries he said.
Press Room Brazilians call for new food warning label system A new national campaign in Brazil is calling for the approval of clear, front-of-pack nutritional warning labels, currently under consideration by the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa).
Press Room Nearly 70 million smokers in Latin America are at Risk of Tobacco-related death and disease Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans continue to die every year from tobacco-related disease, according to the American Cancer Society and Vital Strategies, co-publishers of the Tobacco Atlas, Sixth Edition, now available in Spanish.