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Cardiovascular disease, or heart disease and stroke, remains the leading cause of death worldwide, claiming 18 million lives each year despite the availability of effective, inexpensive and safe prevention and treatment. High blood pressure alone is the world’s leading cause of death, killing 10 million people annually, more than all infectious diseases combined.

Count every life. That is the principle behind Vital Strategies’ Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Program, which collaborates with governments to ensure high-quality data about life and death are available to policy makers. CRVS systems are the foundation of good governance, and are key to policy, planning and monitoring of international commitments like the Sustainable Development Goals. For individuals, the registration of vital events offers rights, protections, and access to services.

A decades-long dearth of global investment in civil registration has culminated in a scandal of invisibility: nearly 45 million deaths and over 50 million…

Our Research Division generates high-quality evidence to guide important public health decisions. However, knowledge generation is not enough; we also aim to build the institutions required to ensure the impact of our research is sustainable. We are investing in training the researchers of tomorrow; providing technical assistance to overcome roadblocks to increasing research capacity in low- and middle-income countries; and equipping affected communities to understand and participate in the research we conduct.