Case Studies How Stark Food Labels Could Help Brazilians Avert Chronic Disease Fabiano chose to tell his story as part of a series of powerful, personal testimonial advertisements in a campaign to support the implementation of clear, front-of-pack nutritional warning labels in Brazil.
Case Studies In India, Tobacco’s Biggest Threat May Come From Its Victims India has the second largest number of tobacco consumers in the world. Twenty-nine percent of adults in India—some 267 million people—use tobacco in some…
Explainers The Next Epidemic: Why the World is Still Vulnerable Disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics have adversely affected health for centuries. In 1918, an influenza pandemic infected a third of the world’s population, killing an estimated 50 million people.
Press Room Health Organizations Call On The Walt Disney Company To Terminate Vice Media Partnership With Philip Morris International The health organizations are asking Disney to require that Vice adopt a strict policy prohibiting the company and its subsidiaries from working with tobacco companies.
Expert Q&A Why Lead Poisoning Prevention Matters The majority of countries simply don’t know how many children are being exposed, or how severe the exposure is. Many are ill-equipped to enforce regulations in consumer products. And, mining industries are politically powerful and exploit perceptions that development needs trump environmental health concerns.
Expert Q&A To Better the Lives of Women and Girls, Improve CRVS Systems What are some of the obstacles that women face with regard to registration in some countries? There are a number of issues:…
Explainers By the Numbers: Road Traffic Crashes Over 90 percent of the world’s fatalities on the roads occur in low-income and middle-income countries, which have less than half of the world’s vehicles.
Expert Q&A Air Pollution: Why Focus on Cities? We work in cities because in addition to hosting some of the biggest air pollution challenges, they hold the most effective solutions.
Expert Q&A Pollution de l’air : pourquoi mettre l’accent sur les villes ? Nous travaillons en étroite collaboration avec les responsables politiques pour renforcer les capacités techniques nécessaires à l’analyse de ces problématiques et à l’élaboration de solutions politiques pour lutter contre les sources de pollution à long terme.
Vital Stories How One City In Brazil Reduced Road Crash Deaths By A Remarkable 40% Fortaleza Mayor Roberto Claudio recently announced that the city of 2.5 million saw a 40 percent reduction in road crash deaths in just four years, from 2014 to 2018.