Press Room Bloomberg Philanthropies’ STOP initiative will expose big tobacco’s deadly work to target the vulnerable and impede health policy The initiative creates a new global watchdog to closely monitor and highlight the tactics the tobacco industry uses across the globe to undermine public health.
Press Mentions Michael Bloomberg launches tobacco industry watchdog The Guardian: A new global watchdog agency has been launched to monitor the tobacco industry with $20m of philanthropic funding amid fears of dirty tactics by cigarette companies hit by declining smoking rates in the west.
Vital Stories Kuala Lumpur Goes Smoke-Free with the Partnership for Healthy Cities It’s against the law for residents of Malaysia’s capital to smoke in restaurants, government buildings or shopping centers, but people sometimes light up anyway. So the city has joined the Partnership for Healthy Cities with a plan to get tougher about enforcing the law and build public support for a fully smoke-free Kuala Lumpur.
Vital Stories Air Pollution: Where There Is Fire, There Is Smoke Recent smoky wildfires are just part of a much larger, slow-burning global air pollution crisis.
Press Mentions High-level meeting on NCDs holds promise, and pitfalls Devex: Ever since the World Health Organization last year announced plans to create an independent high-level commission on noncommunicable diseases, the global health community has been waiting to learn more.
Press Mentions Opinion: The global development community asks tough questions. Here are the answers Devex: To mark the occasion, the heads of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s three global programmatic areas — Global Development, Global Growth & Opportunity, and Global Health — answer the toughest questions they are asked.
Press Mentions Future Lions of New York New York Times : Since the legendary chaos of 1970s and ’80s, New York has evolved to the point where the city’s “Disneyfication” is taken as a matter of public record.
Press Mentions UN to development community: Think urban for the SDGs Devex: As the international community gears up to review global progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 11, the so-called “urban SDG,” getting cities right is increasingly seen by many development experts as essential to deliver on the entire 2030 Agenda.
Vital Stories In Tanzania, the cause of 92% of deaths are unknown. The Solution: Better Data Without a clear picture of the underlying causes-of-death, any attempt to tackle health challenges can often seem like searching in the dark.
Press Room In new media campaign, Brazilians ask government to approve clear and accurate food labels It urges the approval of clear warnings on the front of food packaging to address health concerns over the country’s growing obesity epidemic.