Publications

Vital Strategies in partnership with UNICEF has developed a technical brief to support governments, academia, and civil society in developing a tracking system for children’s environmental health indicators in their own countries.

This study evaluated the performance of an adapted and reduced version of verbal autopsy in identifying the underlying causes of non-forensic deaths in São Paulo, Brazil.

Bien que la pollution de l’air puisse être à la fois contrôlée et évitée, elle n’en reste pas moins un sujet largement négligé, ce qui nuit à la santé et au bien-être des populations. Ce document a été conçu pour présenter des données probantes et des expériences aux décideurs politiques, afin d’inspirer des politiques de mobilité urbaine qui permettent de sauver des vies en améliorant l'air que nous respirons.

This study highlights how strategic, culturally sensitive communication can buttress current and future contact tracing efforts, especially among Black and Latinx/Hispanic people.

STREAM (Standardized Treatment Regimen of Anti-TB Drugs for Patients with MDR-TB) Stage 1 demonstrated non-inferior efficacy of a shortened regimen (the Short regimen) for rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB) compared to the contemporaneous WHO-recommended regimen. This study investigated risk factors for QT prolongation with the Short regimen.

Our new study offers a first-of-its-kind look at the social media marketing tactics of the e-cigarette industry in Indonesia. It uncovers how brands use social media, and particularly Instagram, to directly market products to young people with content meant to appeal to them and draw them to online stores. E-cigarette marketing exposure is associated with an increased likelihood of use among youth.

This study analyzed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital admissions for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Brazil according to the type of NCD, sex, age group and region of Brazil.