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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.

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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.

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“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.

Spotlight

Our latest VitalTalks event: The premiere screening of “Tobacco Slave”

This new film confronts labor exploitation in the tobacco sector and the role industry plays in deepening inequity.

Press Mentions

Alcohol Taxes Are a Public Health Win-Win

Global Health Now: Jeffrey Drope, lead author of The Tobacco Atlas and research professor, University of Illinois Chicago, and Rebecca Perl, Vice President of Partnerships and Initiatives, Vital Strategies, outline 5 falsehoods promoted by the alcohol industry to prevent the rollout of lifesaving laws.

Press Mentions

Opinion: Tobacco use and mental illness — an overlooked dual burden

Devex: Jeffrey Drope, PhD, Research Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Stephen Hamill, Vice President, Policy, Advocacy & Communication, Vital Strategies, write about connecting smart tobacco-control interventions with treatment for mental health.

Press Mentions

Governments and Philanthropy Can’t Address Stalled SDGs Alone

Health Policy Watch: José Luis Castro, President and CEO of Vital Strategies, discusses the need to accelerate progress on achieving the SDGs.

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PAHO and Vital Strategies agree to bolster evidence-based approaches to advance public health in the Americas

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Vital Strategies have signed a new partnership agreement to improve the use of data and evidence to address health challenges in the Americas.

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As Overdose Rates Spiral in Black Communities, Vital Strategies and Scattergood Foundation Launch $450,000 Grants Program To Advance Racial Equity in Pennsylvania

Funded projects will focus on racial disparities in overdose deaths and promoting harm reduction throughout Pennsylvania.

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