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The Climate and Us: The Human Toll of Deadly Haze

This new series, The Climate and Us, explores how the climate crisis is affecting human health. Vital Strategies and its partners are featured in the series for their work to address air quality and promote clean air action in Jakarta, Indonesia.

VitalTalks

Premiere Screening of “Tobacco Slave”

This VitalTalks event featured a premiere screening of “Tobacco Slave,” followed by a panel discussion with the film’s director, Roy Maconachie and investigative journalist Noy Thrupkaew.

Press Room

Mayors Call for Urgent Measures To Ensure Access to Healthy Food

"As part of our work with the Partnership for Healthy Cities and the Bloomberg Philanthropies Food Policy Program, we call on urban leaders to use their powers to ensure healthy food is accessible in public settings."

Press Room

Vital Strategies, CDC Peru and Pure Earth Unite To Reduce Lead Exposure in Peru

Read out statement on protecting children in Peru from lead poisoning.

Press Mentions

Bridging the Water Gap: Social Movements Are Global Health’s Future

Global Health Now: Trish Cotter, global lead for the Food Policy Program at Vital Strategies, discusses the link between water access and healthy food in Mexico.

Press Mentions

Soda industry playbook on display in South Africa’s sugar tax battle

The Examination: This op-ed features Trish Cotter, who leads the Food Policy Program at Vital Strategies, in its discussion of taxes on sugary drinks.

Using data to end gender disparities in health: Q&A with Joan Sara Thomas

Joan Sara Thomas, Data for Health Initiative, discusses how data can be used to promote gender equity.

Explainers

Pushing Back on Unhealthy Industries Online

Vital Strategies has been working with governments and civil society for nearly two decades to monitor unhealthy industries and protect people from their marketing tactics. Learn more about our work.

Press Room

“Hundreds of millions of kids around the world are exposed to tobacco marketing each year because of regulatory loopholes. Governments have to step into the 21st century and regulate invisible digital marketing of these harmful products.“

Read our statement on guidelines to address tobacco marketing in digital media.

Holding the Alcohol Industry to Account: Q&A With David Jernigan, Professor of Health Law, Policy & Management at Boston University

David Jernigan, Professor of Health Law, Policy & Management at Boston University, discusses the urgency of enacting alcohol policy.

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