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Jakarta Launches Ambitious Clean Air Partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies

The Jakarta Capital City Government (DKI Jakarta), Bloomberg Philanthropies and implementing partner Vital Strategies announce the Jakarta Clean Air Partnership.

Publications

Identifying the Main Sources of Air Pollution in Jakarta: A Source Apportionment Study

Vital Strategies worked with the Bandung Institute of Technology to identify the leading sources of ambient PM2.5 levels in and around Jakarta. This is the first publicly released multisite source apportionment study of Jakarta’s airshed.

Publications

Toward Clean Air Jakarta: Improving Air Quality In Jakarta in the Near- and Long-Term

Toward Clean Air Jakarta highlights the current state of air quality in Jakarta, the efforts that are underway to enhance air quality monitoring and source identification, and an initial set of policy proposals to improve air quality.

Vital Stories

From Bogotá to Accra: Cities Honor Loved Ones Lost on World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

On World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, Bogotá and other cities joins the global community in honoring loved ones lost and recognizing that no death on the road is acceptable.

Vital Stories

Around the World, Cities are Driving Action Against the World’s #1 Preventable Killer: Tobacco.

The world’s leading preventable killer—tobacco—comes center stage every year on World No Tobacco Day, May 31, bringing attention to the 7 million tobacco-related annual deaths caused by tobacco use and aiming to boost tobacco control policies and efforts.

Explainers

Social Media vs Big Tobacco: Young Indonesian Activists are Playing to Win

Anti-industry, social media-driven campaigns, such as #TheyLieWeDie, have sparked youthful, grassroots support in countries like Indonesia where reaching Big Tobacco’s next customer base is literally a matter of life and death.

Case Studies

“X-Ray”: Smokers’ Lungs are Focus of Sobering Photos

An estimated quarter of a million Indonesians die annually from smoking-related disease, and the industry recruits 16.4 million new smokers each year, replacing them many times over.

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.

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