Vital Stories Crafting Campaigns for Tobacco-Free Holidays Our team recounts recent campaigns for tobacco-free holidays that engaged the public in promoting healthy policies and behaviors and helped shape customs and habits.
Case Studies Tobacco Control Case Study: Philippines In the Philippines, Vital Strategies launched a SmokeFree Caravan Tour in 2017 with a key message—that Increasing Tobacco taxes will save lives.
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 Mentions Pasay City gets tough on vaping Manila Bulletin: Rubiano said that according to the tobacco-monitoring group Tobacco Atlas, adding: “Every year more than 117,700 of its people are killed by tobacco-caused disease.
Campaigns Philippines – Tobacco Control – Manny Pacquiao vs Yosi Kadiri This campaign calls for higher tobacco taxes in the Philippines.
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention As many as 800 million children globally have unsafe blood lead levels according to the World Health Organization. Vital Strategies’ Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention program was launched with the government of Peru to support ongoing lead poisoning surveillance, raise public awareness about key sources of lead exposure, and improve regulation of lead in consumer products. The program recently expanded to Indonesia where we are partnering with UNICEF and Pure Earth to update the nation’s clinical guidance for lead exposure in children and conduct a comprehensive assessment of lead policies and stakeholders.
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.
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.