Technical Guides Facilitator’s Guide: Road Safety Journalism Workshops Media engagement is a key component of comprehensive strategies to save lives on the world’s roads. This facilitator's guide hopes to support the relationship with the media on the road safety topic.
Publications Effective Communication to Improve Maternal Health in Kigoma, Tanzania This study explores the message styles that were most effective in changing attitudes, beliefs and behaviors to encourage delivery in health facilities in Kigoma, Tanzania.
Campaigns Vietnam – Road Safety – Mother This public service announcement depicts a speeding car crashing into a mother and a child on a motorcycle and asks drivers to think about the consequences of speeding, urging them to control their speed on the road.
Publications Tobacco Marketing and Football: A Losing Game Our new TERM study analyzes marketing instances on social media in Indonesia, India and Mexico leading up to and during the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup in Qatar, to explore how the World Cup and football stars were used to promote tobacco.
Publications Association Between Hospital Adoption of an Emergency Department Treatment Pathway for Opioid Use Disorder and Patient Initiation of Buprenorphine After Discharge This cohort study of 17, 428 Medicaid-enrolled patients demonstrated that Pennsylvania's Opioid Hospital Quality Improvement Program was associated with an increased initiation of buprenorphine in patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) presenting to the Emergency Department, suggesting that such statewide incentive programs may effectively improve outcomes for patients with OUD.
Campaigns Bangladesh – Tobacco Control – 100% Smoke free Public Places This campaign informs Bangladeshi people about the risks of secondhand smoke from designated smoking areas in public places.
Publications Analysis of Deaths Due to Gender-Based Violence: An Autopsy-based Cross-sectional Study from Mumbai Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a dire and pervasive issue globally with 1 in 3 women affected in their lifetime. This new report summarizes key findings from a study that analyzed data from 10 autopsy centers in Mumbai for over 1,460 cases of female deaths.
Publications The Instrumental Role of Strategic Communication to Counter Industry Marketing Responses to Sugary Drink Taxes; Comment on “Understanding Marketing Responses to a Tax on Sugary Drinks: A Qualitative Interview Study in the United Kingdom, 2019” This commentary reflects on recent experiences of the sugary drinks industry's marketing responses to taxes instituted to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks. It presents evidence that strategic communication can play an instrumental role in protecting strong taxes from industry responses.
Technical Guides Basic Drug Use Epidemiology Guide The Epidemiology Guide provides an overview of key overdose and substance-use indicators; key data investigation questions; suggestions on how to secure, analyze, and stratify data; possible data sources; examples; and references.
Fact Sheets A Snapshot of Medication Diversion Among 6 Jails Expanding Access to Agonist Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) in Pennsylvania This snapshot looks at the reported incidence of diversion, assault, and conduct citations at the six jails in Pennsylvania that together provided buprenorphine to more than 1,000 individuals over an 18 month period through this state-funded grant program.