Press Room “The world is on fire—and we need to act like it is just that.” Statement by Dan Kass, Senior Vice President, Environment, Climate & Urban Health, Vital Strategies, on Canadian Wildfires and Air Quality Alerts Across U.S.
Press Room Tobacco Control Campaign Reaches 50 Million in Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Palestine The Eastern Mediterranean region can benefit from organized tobacco control efforts, as shown by the results of a single regional campaign that reached 50 million people across Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine in the summer and fall of 2022.
VitalTalks Can Data End Gender-Based Violence? One in three women worldwide have been subjected to physical or sexual violence in their lifetimes, an alarming statistic that only scratches the surface of this global atrocity. Our event heard from experts who are using innovative data and advocacy to help bring gender-based violence out of the shadows and into the public eye.
Press Mentions Continued Learning Is More Than Just A Buzzing Trend Forbes: José Luis Castro, President and CEO of Vital Strategies, discusses the importance of prioritizing continued learning into organization culture to drive innovation and growth.
Press Room Statement on India’s requirement that depictions of tobacco use on Netflix and other streaming media services be accompanied by health warnings “For the first time, a country has taken steps to regulate content on streaming media services to protect people from tobacco, the world’s leading preventable killer. Netflix and other services expose billions to content that glamorizes tobacco. We applaud India for taking this bold, first step, and encourage other governments to follow.”
Press Room No Turning Back: It’s Time To Accelerate Tobacco Control Statement from José Luis Castro, President and CEO of Vital Strategies, on World No Tobacco Day, May 31, 2023.
Press Mentions Students for Sensible Drug Policy Launches Statewide Fellowship Queen City Nerve: This article announces the launch of the Youth Overdose Prevention Fellowship, funded by the Vital Strategies Overdose Prevention Program, which is working to advance evidence-based overdose prevention initiatives across seven U.S. states.
Vital Stories A World No Tobacco Day Dialogue: Meet Two Cities Swapping Strategies on Going Smoke-Free Two cities, Manchester, UK and Melbourne, Australia, have shown that local action can and should lead the way on public health, using solutions that can be shared across borders.
Vital Stories Vital Strategies Shares Examples of How to Use Social Marketing to Benefit Public Health At the World Social Marketing Conference in South Africa, our team members shared lessons from our campaigns on sugary drinks taxes and road safety.
Vital Stories Giving Tobacco Marketers a Red Card: Q&A With Canary Team About Tobacco Marketing and the 2022 FIFA World Cup The Tobacco Enforcement and Reporting Movement (TERM) recently released a report on tobacco marketing on social media in India, Indonesia and Mexico during and leading up to the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup. In this Q&A, we spoke with several of the report authors to learn more about the findings.