Expert Q&A Vital Stories No More Siloed, Single-issue Solutions and Short-term Thinking: It’s Time to Reimagine Public Health A collaborative approach to public health can help us build better public health systems and drive policies that protect everyone, everywhere.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories A Picture of Health: How Graphic Pack Warning Labels Stem Tobacco Use in Africa One way to counter the tobacco industry's efforts to hook new tobacco users: Graphic pack warning labels.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories How Communication Campaigns Can Accelerate Tobacco Control Policy Change Vital Strategies shared oral and poster presentations at the 13th Annual Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories Interrupting Sexism in the Workplace and Beyond Sarah DiMuccio and Negin Sattari of Catalyst, a global nonprofit that works around the world to accelerate women into leadership, spoke to us about their research on how men can interrupt sexism in the workplace and beyond.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories “Right To Know”: A Campaign for Warning Labels on Unhealthy Food That Sparked Record Civic Participation The new food policy guidelines will be implemented in October 2022 after six long years of advocacy from civil society organizations.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories The Future of Food: How Healthy Food Policy Fellows Are Transforming Food Environments in South Africa, Colombia and Brazil In a new podcast, Healthy Food Policy Fellows discuss their vision to change food environments.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories Delivering Together: Why Using Birth Companions Leads to Better Birthing Experiences and Maternal Health Outcomes in Tanzania In 2017, the Thamini Uhai/Vital Strategies team introduced birth companions in health facilities in Tanzania's Kigoma Region to improve maternal health outcomes. Dr. Sunday Dominico, Director of Programs at Thamini Uhai, and one of the lead authors of a recently published study on the pilot, spoke with us about the impressive results.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories Leading the Way: Reimagining Clinical Care Guidance for Childhood Lead Poisoning in Peru A critical first step in preventing lead poisoning is identifying potential exposure early.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories The Politics of Food and the Redistribution of Power Food has often been used as a means to wield power over others, but can also be understood as a vehicle to redistribute it. To learn more, we sat down with recent Vital Brown Bag speaker, Jenny Dorsey, who is a professional chef and founder of the nonprofit organization, Studio ATAO.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories New Research Underscores That Childhood Stunting From Air Pollution is a Global Health Threat The relationship between air pollution and child stunting has been largely overlooked but new research offers updated evidence on the link. We spoke to Vivian Pun, epidemiologist in Vital Strategies' Environmental Health division and author on the new paper, to learn more about what the team found.