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Program uses new communications technology to advance public health data collection and monitoring. Goal is to help 1.2 billion people in 20 countries live healthier, longer lives.

The Tobacco Atlas, Fifth Edition (“The Atlas”), and its companion website TobaccoAtlas.org, were unveiled today by the American Cancer Society and Partners at the 16th World Conference on Tobacco or Health.

This series is a first-person anecdotes from Vital Strategies Community Health Workers (CHWs) working on the ground to improve maternal health in Tanzania.

Efforts to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco in the Philippines is moving online, through social media.

Today the Irish Parliament passed legislation to introduce plain standardised packaging for cigarettes in Ireland. The legislation stops the tobacco industry from using pack color and design to appeal to smokers and non-smokers.

Over the past decade, the FCTC has played a central role in calling governments to commit to reducing the burden of tobacco. Critically, it has also provided governments with clear advice about proven strategies that actually reduce tobacco use.

Vital Strategies is proud to be named a partner of Bloomberg Philanthropies groundbreaking Global Road Safety Initiative.  This initiative seeks to combat one of the…

To address the epidemic of smoked and smokeless tobacco use in India, State governments across India are urged to use a new, free mass media campaign resource that can help to build support for tobacco control and encourage people to quit, or never initiate tobacco use.

Policy measures and behavior change needed to protect future generations from a lifetime of obesity and illness.

To slow the toll in low and middle income countries, the Sustainable Development Goals should include a commitment to implementing the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control