Press Room The FDA Approves Over-the-Counter Naloxone To Address Overdose Crisis Vital Strategies Applauds Overdue Change and Urges Private and Public Insurance to Cover Lifesaving Intervention and State Governments to Continue Funding Free Naloxone.
Spotlight Watch: Toward a World Where Everyone Counts Watch our roundtable event and hear from leading civil registration and vital statistics experts engaged in the life-changing work of making millions of invisible people visible.
Press Mentions Qatar World Cup Is Hijacked To Advertise Tobacco Health Policy Watch: Tobacco companies in Indonesia, India and Mexico circumvented international football governing body FIFA’s advertising ban on their products by associating them with the World Cup, according to a new social media analysis by public health group Vital Strategies.
Press Room As Overdose Crisis Continues, Pennsylvania Extends Innovative Campaign To Promote Naloxone Use and Combat Stigma The Pennsylvania Department of Health is extending their real-world testimonial ad campaign to highlight naloxone as a lifesaving harm reduction strategy.
Press Room FIFA World Cup Served as World Stage for Tobacco Marketing to Youth A new brief by Vital Strategies examines how the world’s most-watched sporting tournament, the football FIFA World Cup, is used to promote tobacco products and use.
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.