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.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories Tackling Tuberculosis With Tried and Tested Mass Media Campaigns Public health mass media campaigns can be a powerful strategy for addressing the TB epidemic.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories Vital Around the World: Meet Christina Chang, Executive Vice President and Deputy CEO We sat down with Christina Chang to learn about her public health journey, what excites her about the work she does at Vital Strategies—including a new initiative she is looking forward to—and what she loves about living and working in New York City.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories Engaging Women in Vietnam to Champion Smoke-Free Places: Q&A With Madame Tran Thi Huong To learn about tobacco control efforts in Vietnam, we sat down with our partner Madame Tran Thi Huong, Vice Chairwoman of the Vietnam Women’s Union.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories Q&A: How SCORE Can Improve Global Data Systems Vital Strategies is proud to have contributed to the development of the new World Health Organization SCORE global report which assesses the health data systems in 133 countries.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories The Time Is Now: Greater Commitment and Support Are Needed To End Tuberculosis On World TB Day, I.D. Rusen, Senior Vice President of Research highlights the urgent need for tuberculosis research to improve prevention and care.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories Q&A: Catalyzing Clean Air Action To Combat Air Pollution Sumi Mehta, Senior Epidemiologist in our Environmental Health Division discusses the launch of the Clean Air Catalyst program.
Expert Q&A Vital Stories Beyond the Single Story: Ethically Using Visuals to Tell Fuller Stories As a global health organization, we frequently use images to tell the story of the work we do. In our journey to think more critically about the images we take and use, to tell fuller, more accurate stories, we were recently joined by visual journalist and professor Tara Pixley for a conversation on ethical storytelling.