Press Room Vital Strategies’ Judith Mackay calls for greater progress on tobacco control across Asia Pacific Tobacco control expert Dr Judith Mackay calls for tougher regulation on tobacco control at the 11th Asia-Pacific Association for the Control of Tobacco Conference on Tobacco or Health (APACT), being held in Beijing, China.
Press Room Vital Strategies supports UN declaration to tackle the threat of antimicrobial resistance Vital Strategies’ President and CEO José Luis Castro responded to the UN’s landmark declaration agreeing to help fight the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) worldwide.
Press Room Vital Strategies hails Uruguay’s leadership on combating risk factors for preventable disease Uruguay commits to continue the fight against tobacco use and preventable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic lung disease and cancer during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
CEO Perspective Health Must Be Priority for Next U.N. Leader As the world faces rising challenges the critical question of UN leadership is also at stake.
Press Room Tobacco use decreases in Vietnam, but survey underlines continued need for tobacco control Vital Strategies welcomes the publication of the Vietnam Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) 2015, which shows a drop in smoking rates.
Press Room Victim Testimonials Have a Significant Impact in Changing Attitudes to Tobacco An analysis of tobacco victim testimonials has found that they have a marked effect on attitudes to tobacco use and support for tobacco control policies and help to encourage behavior change.
Press Room Powerful campaign in Indonesia shows tobacco’s many deadly harms Vital Strategies congratulates the Government of Indonesia on a new campaign that graphically highlights the many harmful illnesses caused by tobacco use.
Vital Stories Everyone Counts – Registering Births and Deaths in Bangladesh A rural sub-district in Bangladesh, Kaligonj, has committed to registering every birth and death.
Vital Stories Smoking is not glamorous, it’s a killer This Op-Ed by Nandita Murukutla, Vital Strategies Vice President, Global Policy and Research and Country Director, India appeared in The Hindustan Times.
Vital Stories Johns Hopkins University hosts global tobacco control leadership program The Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) recently held the 11th Annual Global Tobacco Control Leadership Program in Baltimore.