Air Pollution and Health About 5 million people die every year because of poor air quality. This burden falls disproportionately on women and children living without access to clean household energy, and people living in low- and middle-income countries where urbanization has brought increased emissions. Vital Strategies provides technical expertise and consultative services to inform policies and influence public discourse about air pollution and its health impacts around the world.
Vital Stories How One City In Brazil Reduced Road Crash Deaths By A Remarkable 40% Fortaleza Mayor Roberto Claudio recently announced that the city of 2.5 million saw a 40 percent reduction in road crash deaths in just four years, from 2014 to 2018.
Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Advances in systems thinking, demography and technology mean that for the first time, counting every human life is possible, even in remote areas.
Food Policy Vital Strategies works closely with partners in Barbados, Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica and South Africa. We also support work in other countries including India and Ethiopia. Our work helps achieve healthy food policy goals through focused audience research, strategic communication and evaluation.
Press Room São Paulo Combats Drink Driving During Busy Holiday Season The month-long campaign, “Never Drink and Drive,” aims to reach the 8 million drivers in the city through television, radio, social media, billboards and in movie theaters.
Road Safety Vital Strategies is an implementing partner of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS), a consortium carrying out proven road safety interventions in 15 countries and up to 30 cities around the world.
Tobacco Control Tobacco could kill a billion people this century. Vital Strategies Tobacco Control Program has worked in 41 countries to deliver evidence-based campaigns and build local capacity to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco and e-cigarettes. Our campaigns support policy goals such as smoke-free workplaces and tobacco tax increases. Recently, we also focused on encouraging quitting during COVID-19 because smoking increases the risk of a deadly infection.
Campaigns São Paulo, Brazil – Drink Driving – Never Drink and Drive São Paulo’s month-long campaign, “Never Drink and Drive,” launched ahead of the busy Easter holiday season in 2019 and aimed to reach drivers in the…
Vital Stories New Website Shows How Health Data Can Be Turned Into Stronger Public Health Systems The website serves as an information hub about DIP – what we do, why we do it and where we do it – as well as a repository for the tools and resources that we’ve generated in the first four years of program implementation.