Vital Stories Vital Stories: Highlights From Our Blog in 2025 This year’s top blogs reflect our global reach and the urgency of today’s challenges, whether strengthening health systems, reimagining public health language, preventing injuries and NCDs, or advancing gender equity. Here are 10 of our most popular Vital Stories from 2025.
Press Room New Report Lays Bare Alcohol’s Harms and the Policy Solutions That Work The second edition of “Trouble Brewing” synthesizes the most up-to-date scientific evidence to offer a clear, authoritative view of the myriad ways in which alcohol harms not only health, but also economies, public safety and the environment.
Vital Stories Vital Strategies’ Overdose Prevention Program Looks Back on 2025 Impact Vital Strategies’ Overdose Prevention Program reflects on a year of meaningful progress, highlighting community-driven partnerships and evidence-based solutions that are helping reduce overdose deaths across the U.S. Explore 12 standout initiatives that advanced equitable, health-centered responses.
Vital Stories How Cambodia Is Joining Forces to End Gender-Based Violence Cambodia’s Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Ministry of Health, with guidance from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative’s Data to Policy Program, have collaborated on a plan for the nationwide expansion of One-Stop Service Units for survivors of gender-based violence.
Press Room Vital Strategies “Kick Big Soda Out of Sport” Campaign Wins Bronze at 2025 Anthem Awards Big Soda has sought to “sportswash” away the health and environmental harms associated with sugary drinks, leveraging the emotional power of sport to polish its public image. “Kick Big Soda Out of Sport” is a movement of nearly 100 organizations and over a quarter of a million supporters, demanding an end to these sponsorship deals.
Press Room Vital Strategies’ “You Have the Power to Save Lives” Campaign Wins Silver at 2025 Anthem Awards The campaign works with cities across seven states to promote naloxone access and reduce overdose deaths in Black communities.
Vital Stories Toolkit Resources for Overdose Prevention Vital Strategies collaborates with people with lived experience, practitioners, and researchers to turn lessons from the field into practical resources that can be used anywhere.
Press Mentions ‘Utter hypocrisy’: tobacco firm lobbied against rules in Africa that are law in UK The Guardian: “We see evidence of industry lobbying everywhere. Tobacco company fingerprints are on delayed tax increases in Indonesia, stalled legislation in Zambia and even a weakened…
Press Room Alcohol Taxation Saves Lives: New Guide Outlines Six Tax Principles for Governments to Reduce Alcohol Harms Economics for Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as part of the RESET Alcohol initiative led by Vital Strategies, released “Principles of Alcohol Taxation,” a policy note for governments that outlines six key principles for the design and implementation of effective alcohol excise taxes.
Vital Stories Myanmar Implements Standardized Plain Packaging to Curb Tobacco’s Appeal Myanmar has marked a significant milestone in protecting public health and advancing global tobacco control efforts with the successful implementation of standardized plain packaging on tobacco products.