Vital People Grace Pickens, Program Associate, Partnership for Healthy Cities In the 1980s, two American musicians left their homes and families to go play in the national symphony orchestra of Colombia. The musicians—one…
Vital Stories Tackling the World’s Most Diagnosed Cancer An estimated 2.3 million new cases of breast cancer were identified in 2020 alone.
Vital Stories Reimagining Public Health Together: Vital’s Community Responds In a world reshaped by COVID-19, Vital Strategies has ignited a conversation, asking thousands of our followers, partners and staff from around the world to share what public health means to them personally.
Vital Stories The Power of Data To Reveal and Address Health Inequities The Global Grants Program supports countries in implementing projects that improve data collection, analysis and use for public health decision-making.
Press Room Takeaways from Global Health Expert Roundtable on Reimagining Public Health Amid COVID-19 Pandemic As part of the VitalTalks speaker series, Vital Strategies convened global public health leaders for a conversation on how to build better health systems.
Press Mentions Bring in the Bikes: Adopting Policies With Multiple Health Benefits Health Policy Watch: At VitalTalks speakers discussed improving public health systems.
Press Room “Investing in healthy cities now will produce invaluable benefits by improving the lives of billions of people worldwide.” Cities have long served as leaders at the forefront of public health.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories A Picture of Health: How Graphic Pack Warning Labels Stem Tobacco Use in Africa One way to counter the tobacco industry's efforts to hook new tobacco users: Graphic pack warning labels.
VitalTalks Good Health Doesn’t Just Happen: Facing NCDs, Climate Change and Urban Health From clean air and access to healthy foods to safer cities, our speakers highlighted how working across sectors we can build better public health systems and policies to drive broad and sustainable change that protects everyone, everywhere.
Press Room “Safer streets for all is an attainable goal in this Second Decade of Action for Road Safety” Progress against road injury and death is possible in every country and context.