Press Mentions Taming the world’s leading killer: high blood pressure CNN: Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives on the harms of high blood pressure.
Press Room Vital Strategies Partners, Collaborators Recognized by WHO on World No Tobacco Day 2021 Princess Dina Mired and M.P. Tuba Durgut are awarded the World No Tobacco Day Award 2021.
Press Room On World No Tobacco Day: To Build Back Better, We Must Shape Our Society and Our Environment to Support Health and Combat Tobacco Use Now is the time for bold, comprehensive action on Tobacco.
Press Room New Research: Air Pollution Hinders Childhood Development in up to 90% of Children New research from Vital Strategies offers evidence that air pollution is often overlooked as a contributor to childhood stunting.
Press Room “Millions more people have died from COVID-19 than official records indicate.” Statement from Dr. Adam Karpati, Senior Vice President, Public Health Programs at Vital Strategies, on the World Health Organization’s announcement of excess mortality estimates during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories The Politics of Food and the Redistribution of Power Food has often been used as a means to wield power over others, but can also be understood as a vehicle to redistribute it. To learn more, we sat down with recent Vital Brown Bag speaker, Jenny Dorsey, who is a professional chef and founder of the nonprofit organization, Studio ATAO.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories New Research Underscores That Childhood Stunting From Air Pollution is a Global Health Threat The relationship between air pollution and child stunting has been largely overlooked but new research offers updated evidence on the link. We spoke to Vivian Pun, epidemiologist in Vital Strategies' Environmental Health division and author on the new paper, to learn more about what the team found.
Press Mentions State equips EMS providers with resources for veterans Pioneer: Overdose Prevention Program-funded work in Michigan provides resources to reduce risk of overdose among veterans via emergency medical services providers
Spotlight Investing in Health: Building Back to a Safer and More Equitable World The COVID-19 pandemic has taught the world a hard lesson: that the health of people and the health of economies and societies are inextricably linked. Investing in health is the only way we will be able to build back to a safer and more equitable world.
VitalTalks Investing in Health: NCD Prevention and COVID-19 Recovery On the sidelines of the World Health Assembly, Vital Strategies and NCD Alliance held a special VitalTalks on proven policies that governments can adopt to tilt away from ill health and showcase examples of leadership on NCD prevention.