About Us

We are a leading global public health organization and a trusted partner of governments and civil society organizations around the world.

Vital Strategies helps governments strengthen their public health systems to contend with the most important and difficult health challenges. We design solutions that can scale rapidly and improve the lives of millions of people. Our mission is to work in partnership to reimagine evidence-based, locally driven policies and practices to advance public health.

A public health system is the often-invisible web of protections that help us lead long, productive and healthy lives. It is regulations that keep toxins out of our food and pollutants out of the air we breathe. It is data that informs decisions about health policy, and systems that empower people to make healthier choices.

Vital Strategies’ vision is a world where everyone is protected by equitable and effective public health systems.”
Vital Strategies’ Global Vision

We’re helping governments acquire the knowledge and tools they need to make rapid progress against cancer, heart disease, obesity, drug overdose, road crashes and other leading causes of disease, injury and death.

We’re working for a world where a little girl growing up in New Delhi, Cape Town or São Paolo has the same opportunity for health as a girl growing up anywhere.

With your partnership, we know we can make that happen, and billions of people can live longer, healthier lives.

Our Values

Our organizational values are the foundation of all of our work.

Inclusive collaboration

We engage others, both inside and outside of the organization, to find the best solutions. We seek to listen to different perspectives and incorporate them into clear decision-making processes.

Respect

With interest and humility, we seek to understand the context where we work and learn from the expertise and experience of those with whom we work.

Commitment to learning

We reflect on our progress, build on our knowledge and adjust our approach as needed to achieve the best outcomes.

Ability to adapt

We are able and willing to adapt to new and evolving circumstances to ensure relevance and effectiveness of our work.

Our Definition of Gender

Vital Strategies endorses the World Health Organization definition of gender and uses the term to refer to the socially constructed characteristics, norms, behaviors, and roles of women, men, girls, boys, varying across societies and over time.

Our definition also includes the idea that gender differs from sex, which is biological, and from gender identity, which is a person’s internal experience of gender and exists across a spectrum and can include Man (boy), Woman (girl), Nonbinary, Third gender, Transgender, and other experiences of gender.

Gender hierarchies create inequalities that intersect with other forms of discrimination to such as ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, age, location, gender identity, and sexual orientation. This intersectionality influences a person’s experience with obtaining healthcare services which must be affordable, accessible, acceptable, and provided with quality, equity, and dignity.

Vital Strategies is committed to the highest standards of ethical practice and has guidelines that address diversity, working with the pharmaceutical industry, corruption and prevent trafficking.