Vital Stories Vital Strategies Shares Examples of How to Use Social Marketing to Benefit Public Health At the World Social Marketing Conference in South Africa, our team members shared lessons from our campaigns on sugary drinks taxes and road safety.
Vital Stories Giving Tobacco Marketers a Red Card: Q&A With TERM Team About Tobacco Marketing and the 2022 FIFA World Cup The Tobacco Enforcement and Reporting Movement (TERM) recently released a report on tobacco marketing on social media in India, Indonesia and Mexico during and leading up to the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup. In this Q&A, we spoke with several of the report authors to learn more about the findings.
Press Room Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Vital Strategies Announce North Carolina Youth Overdose Prevention Initiative: Fellows Announced in North Carolina Selected youth fellows will provide harm reduction education and advocate for accessible, evidence-based drug policies, especially among young people from Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other communities of color.
Spotlight VitalTalks Event: Can Data End Gender-Based Violence? Our signature speaker series, VitalTalks, is back for a new season. Hear from experts using innovative data and advocacy approaches to help end gender-based violence.
Vital Stories With Only 2 Out of Every 100 Deaths Recorded in Lagos State, Nigeria, Government Health Programs Are Flying Blind, but Advocates Are Working Toward Rapid Change Unless governments know who is dying, what they are dying of, and how a death might have been prevented, they cannot effectively plan to improve health and safety.
Press Room New Investments in Harm Reduction To Combat Skyrocketing Overdose Deaths in Kentucky Vital Strategies announced its first set of Kentucky-based projects as part of a five-year, $10 million commitment to expanding harm reduction approaches and reducing overdose deaths in the state.
Press Room The Michigan Opioids Task Force Announces Racial Equity Workgroup To Combat Rising Overdose Deaths in Black, Indigenous and other Communities of Color Ultimately, the Racial Equity Workgroup will produce a set of recommendations for the Michigan Opioids Taskforce. The workgroup will be supported by a team from Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Vital Strategies, Michigan Liberation, and Reframe Health and Justice.
Vital Stories 3 Things We Learned From Urban Leaders at the Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit During the Summit, five cities were honored for making sustainable and lasting progress toward preventing NCDs and injuries.
Vital People Melissa Cordoba Asprilla, Senior Manager, Partnership for Healthy Cities In 2017, Melissa was hired to be the Data Impact country coordinator in Colombia. In 2020, she added on the role of senior manager for six Latin American cities in the Partnership for Healthy Cities.
Case Studies Tobacco Control Case Study: Mexico – Collaborative Media Campaigns A comprehensive communication initiative, designed with local partners and in close coordination with the National Tobacco Control Office, shows the power of effective advocacy and highlights the importance of collaboration and persistence.