Case Studies Road Safety: Our Work in Action Bringing together experts, leaders, and advocates provides the opportunity to share evidence-based tactics to improve road safety that can be used across the globe.
Air Pollution and Health About 5 million people die every year because of poor air quality. This burden falls disproportionately on women and children living without access to clean household energy, and people living in low- and middle-income countries where urbanization has brought increased emissions. Vital Strategies provides technical expertise and consultative services to inform policies and influence public discourse about air pollution and its health impacts around the world.
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention As many as 800 million children globally have unsafe blood lead levels according to the World Health Organization. Vital Strategies’ Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention program was launched with the government of Peru to support ongoing lead poisoning surveillance, raise public awareness about key sources of lead exposure, and improve regulation of lead in consumer products. The program recently expanded to Indonesia where we are partnering with UNICEF and Pure Earth to update the nation’s clinical guidance for lead exposure in children and conduct a comprehensive assessment of lead policies and stakeholders.
Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Advances in systems thinking, demography and technology mean that for the first time, counting every human life is possible, even in remote areas.
Vital Stories In Six Large Cities In Asia, Collaboration Brings New Strategies To Anti-Tobacco Fight Six cities in Asia that have long faced stubbornly high rates of smoking are now learning from each other about how to push towards a healthier future.
Road Safety Vital Strategies is an implementing partner of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS), a consortium carrying out proven road safety interventions in 15 countries and up to 30 cities around the world.
Tobacco Control Vital Strategies is a partner in the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use. We work with governments and civil society organizations to implement proven policies like those in the World Health Organization’s international health treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and in the MPOWER package of tobacco reduction measures. Our work has spanned over 50 low- and middle-income countries, where 80% of tobacco deaths occur.
Press Room “Hazy Perceptions” Report Examined 500,000 News and Social Media Posts from South and Southeast Asia to Gauge Public Understanding About Air Pollution Air pollution causes more than 1.5 million deaths each year in South and Southeast Asia, but news and social media from a three-year period show poor public understanding of its major causes and the most promising solutions.
City Health Vital Stories Air Pollution: A Serious Threat to Children’s Health Read the briefing from the Vital Strategies Environmental Health Division and UNICEF on the threat air pollution poses to children’s health in Indonesia
Vital Stories Three Cities Confronting Cancer On World Cancer Day, many of the 54 cities in the Partnership for Healthy Cities are making inspiring progress on public health interventions that can prevent cancer and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).