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…
City Health Vital Stories From clinicians to advocates: African doctors take on air pollution World Asthma Day shines a light on a health condition that is perhaps the most commonly recognized by the general public as having a clinical and an environmental dimension.
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’.
Press Mentions 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.
City Health Vital Stories Celebrating AirNow: To Ensure Clean Air for Health, Follow the Data April 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of AirNow – a flagship program of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designed to help communicate information on local air quality within the United States.
CEO Perspective 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.
Press Mentions Evidence Suggests That Smoking On Film Glamorises Tobacco Use … India Has Highest Number Of TB Patients’ Times of India: With government aiming to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) from India by 2025, focus on links between smoking and TB is growing.
Press Mentions Not The Starbucks Of Global Health: Vital Strategies Builds From Within Global Health Now: As part of Global Health NOW’s occasional Q&A series with global health leaders, José Luis Castro, president and CEO of Vital Strategies, talks about sustainability, data, the special challenge of fighting NCDs and why the 2014 high-level meeting on NCDs flopped.
Vital Stories Thamini Uhai introduces latest evidence-based treatment for post-partum hemorrhage in Kigoma, Tanzania The Thamini Uhai maternal health team in Tanzania has rapidly introduced a new treatment that has been shown to reduce deaths among women who experience severe blood loss after giving birth.