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The Health Taxes Action Guide from Vital Strategies provides policymakers with practical steps to design and implement effective taxes on harmful products such as tobacco, sugary drinks and alcohol, protecting health while strengthening economies.

Discover how data, policy, and partnership are shaping healthier futures in our latest Impact Report, highlighting bold solutions that are transforming public health.

In this op-ed, Mary-Ann Etiebet M.D., President and CEO of Vital Strategies, highlights how health taxes on tobacco, alcohol, and sugary drinks can save lives, generate revenue, and strengthen health systems in Africa, if governments overcome data gaps, weak coordination, and industry interference.

Uruguay has reaffirmed its longstanding commitment to public health by reinstating tobacco control measures that ban the sale of heated tobacco products and mandate plain packaging for cigarettes.

Ethiopia is taking bold steps to tackle air pollution. The ENABLE Project’s Clean Air Policy Accelerator is uniting health leaders to put clean air at the center of public health.

Using data and AI it is possible to strengthen the health system’s capacity to identify and prevent gender-based violence in Brazil. Recognizing that violence against women is a public health emergency, our work focuses on creating tools capable of detecting early signs of violence in data, reducing underreporting, and preventing serious outcomes such as hospitalizations and deaths.