Case Studies Tobacco Control Case Study: Indonesia Over the last five years, Vital Strategies and local advocates in Indonesia have collaborated to find innovative ways to counter the tobacco industry’s huge marketing campaigns.
Partnership for Healthy Cities With a majority of the world’s population now living in urban settings, cities are uniquely positioned to transform the fight against noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries by implementing policies to significantly reduce exposure to risk factors. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the transformative role of urban public health leadership to save lives.
Press Room Jakarta Launches Ambitious Clean Air Partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies The Jakarta Capital City Government (DKI Jakarta), Bloomberg Philanthropies and implementing partner Vital Strategies announce the Jakarta Clean Air Partnership.
Publications Toward Clean Air Jakarta: Improving Air Quality In Jakarta in the Near- and Long-Term Toward Clean Air Jakarta highlights the current state of air quality in Jakarta, the efforts that are underway to enhance air quality monitoring and source identification, and an initial set of policy proposals to improve air quality.
Publications Identifying the Main Sources of Air Pollution in Jakarta: A Source Apportionment Study Vital Strategies worked with the Bandung Institute of Technology to identify the leading sources of ambient PM2.5 levels in and around Jakarta. This is the first publicly released multisite source apportionment study of Jakarta’s airshed.
Vital Stories From Bogotá to Accra: Cities Honor Loved Ones Lost on World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims On World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, Bogotá and other cities joins the global community in honoring loved ones lost and recognizing that no death on the road is acceptable.
Vital Stories Around the World, Cities are Driving Action Against the World’s #1 Preventable Killer: Tobacco. The world’s leading preventable killer—tobacco—comes center stage every year on World No Tobacco Day, May 31, bringing attention to the 7 million tobacco-related annual deaths caused by tobacco use and aiming to boost tobacco control policies and efforts.
Explainers Social Media vs Big Tobacco: Young Indonesian Activists are Playing to Win Anti-industry, social media-driven campaigns, such as #TheyLieWeDie, have sparked youthful, grassroots support in countries like Indonesia where reaching Big Tobacco’s next customer base is literally a matter of life and death.
Case Studies “X-Ray”: Smokers’ Lungs are Focus of Sobering Photos An estimated quarter of a million Indonesians die annually from smoking-related disease, and the industry recruits 16.4 million new smokers each year, replacing them many times over.
Case Studies Road Safety: Our Work in Action Bringing together experts, leaders, and advocates provides the opportunity to share evidence-based tactics to improve road safety that can be used across the globe.