Spotlight 50+ Cities Share Local Solutions to Global Health Challenges Mayors and officials from more than 50 cities met for the inaugural Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit in London in March to celebrate and advance their efforts to transform cities into engines for better health.
Press Room As Michigan Overdose Crisis Grows, New Approach Increased Access to Lifesaving Medications, Treatment In Emergency Rooms A new report from Vital Strategies and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that a program in southeast Michigan improved hospitals’ ability to care for opioid use disorder patients in their emergency departments.
Press Room “Unless we commit to urgent action and collecting the data that brings femicide into focus, this deadly trend will remain an invisible crisis.” Statement from Ruxana Jina, Director of the Data Impact Program, Vital Strategies, on the recently released report, “Analysis of deaths due to gender-based violence: An autopsy-based cross-sectional study from Mumbai.”
Press Room New Legal Advocacy Hub Protects People Who Use Drugs Against Illegal Discrimination in Health Care, Employment, Housing People who use drugs or alcohol face discrimination in employment, health and housing. A new portal, Legal Help for People Who Use(d) Drugs, is helping fight this.
Press Room Five Cities Recognized for Public Health Achievements at Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit During the inaugural Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit in London, five cities were recognized for their achievements in preventing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries.
Press Room As Overdose Death Disparities Persist in New Jersey, Nearly $470,000 in New Grants Strengthen Organizations Addressing Racial Inequity and Promoting Harm Reduction The community-based projects will focus on advancing racial equity and harm reduction throughout the state of New Jersey and will address racial harms caused by punitive policies and systems that target people of color.
Vital Stories Vital Strategies Works With 7 States To Support Opioid Settlement Funding for Health and Harm Reduction Approaches To #EndOverdose The Vital Strategies Overdose Prevention Program is offering support, resources and guidance to state and local governments seeking to drive spending of opioid settlement funds towards health-oriented services that have been shown to reduce overdose and improve health outcomes.
Press Room Statement from Vital Strategies’ Overdose Prevention Program on the horrific loss of Najee Seabrooks We join the Paterson, New Jersey community and our partners at Black Lives Matter Paterson in mourning the horrific loss of Najee Seabrooks last week.
Vital Stories The Connection Between the Drug War and Criminalization of Sex Work: A Q&A With Author and Advocate Justice Rivera People who use drugs and those engaged in sex work can face similar challenges—stigma, denial of health care, the risk of experiencing violence. Criminalization of behaviors and a punitive approach to the issue is at the root of these harmful outcomes and many more.
Press Room New North Carolina Initiatives Tackle Illegal Discrimination Against People with Substance Use Disabilities in Health Care Settings and Jails Two initiatives will protect the right to healthcare and other supportive services for North Carolinians with substance use disabilities, including access to agonist medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in jails across the state.