Expert Q&A

Public health mass media campaigns can be a powerful strategy for addressing the TB epidemic.

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.

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.

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.

On World TB Day, I.D. Rusen, Senior Vice President of Research highlights the urgent need for tuberculosis research to improve prevention and care.

Sumi Mehta, Senior Epidemiologist in our Environmental Health Division discusses the launch of the Clean Air Catalyst program.

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.

Vital Strategies’ Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) and Data Impact teams have published two new resources to aid governments.

Recently, our team in India completed message testing for a mass media campaign on the harms of e-cigarettes. Vaishakhi Mallik, Associate Director for South Asia, explains why it's important to test messages before running new campaigns. 

We sat down with Dawit Bisrat, director of Vital Strategies recently opened office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to learn what he is looking forward to about leading our work in Ethiopia and why he thinks Vital’s programs are important in tackling the country's persisting health challenges.