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By 2050, 68% of people will live in cities. The second annual Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit brought urban leaders together to discuss how to make cities healthier and safer. Photo: Kathleen Carlson of Bloomberg Philanthropies speaks during a plenary session at the Summit.

To mark International Women’s Day, we are highlighting the pivotal role of data in advancing gender equity.

At the Vital Strategies Overdose Prevention Program, we recognize that the fight for sex workers’ rights, and our work to reduce fatal overdose and drug related harms, are inextricably tied and closely aligned with the goals and values of supporting those most affected by the criminalization of drug use.

Tobacco control advocates recently gathered for the 10th Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (COP10) in Panama. We look at novel tactics the tobacco industry is using to hook new customers on their deadly products.