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FT Health: Employers’ Guide To Disability In The Workplace

Financial Times: Tom Frieden, discusses his plans for saving 100 million lives by fighting cardiovascular disease in developing countries and strengthening defenses against pandemics.

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Cities And NCDs: The Struggle Toward A Smoke-Free Kathmandu

Devex: Kathmandu Mayor Bidya Sundar Shakya has an ambition: To achieve an 85 percent compliance rate with smoking bans at work and in public spaces within the year, and eventually, make the city smoke free.

Vital Stories

Six Latin American Cities Serve up Healthy Food Strategies

Combatting the rise in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and obesity in Latin America was the focus of a food policy workshop hosted by Vital Strategies in Bogotá, Colombia, last month that featured six cities in the region working with the Partnership for Healthy Cities. The emphasis was on how the cities can support healthy food “environments” and reduce risk factors for NCD and obesity.

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The Lifesaving Power Of Data

Global Health Now: In the absence of reliable data, countries have had to make assumptions and use statistical models to estimate how many people are born and die and what they’re dying of.

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PODCAST: Can Tom Frieden Save 100 Million Lives?

UN Global Dispatch: Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, discusses his goal of saving 100 million lives by focusing on two health issues: cardiovascular disease and global defenses against pandemics.

Vital Stories

Data matching is a path to saving lives from road crashes

Practices like data matching play a critical role in gaining insight, with the goal to later inform policies and interventions that can reduce crashes and save lives.

Case Studies

Birth Companions: A Shifting Culture Saves a Mother’s Life

A woman arrives at a health center in Kigoma region, western Tanzania, bleeding profusely. She had given birth at home, but the placenta had been…

Press Room

Georgia implements comprehensive reforms to protect people from the harms of tobacco use

The new laws include bans on smoking in indoor public places, tobacco advertising and promotion, and misleading terminology on tobacco packaging such as ‘light’ and ‘mild’.

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Power And Possibilities

Forbes: Billionaire leaders like Michael Bloomberg and Oprah Winfrey have turned their attention towards philanthropy and collectively funneled billions of dollars towards health, education, and other charitable projects.

Global Health Now: Not the Starbucks of Global Health: Vital Strategies Builds From Within

My Q&A with Global Health Now on sustainability, data, the special challenge of fighting NCDs.

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