Publications Tuberculosis and Tobacco Integration: Public Education Resources This white paper and communications toolkit provides insights into tested campaign concepts and messages that encourage behavior change in relation to TB prevention and treatment, and ready to use materials for spreading awareness on the link between TB and tobacco.
Case Studies Tobacco Control Case Study: India Vital Strategies’ team and Sunita Tomar, from Madhya Pradesh, India, worked on an anti-tobacco campaign to warn others about the deadly harms of smokeless tobacco.
Partnership for Healthy Cities With a majority of the world’s population now living in urban settings, cities are uniquely positioned to transform the fight against noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries by implementing policies to significantly reduce exposure to risk factors. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the transformative role of urban public health leadership to save lives.
Publications Through the Smokescreen: Public Knowledge and Attitudes on Air Quality and Its Health Impacts in India “Through the Smokescreen,” a report by Vital Strategies, reveals poor public understanding of the major sources of air pollution and priority clean air solutions in India.
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.
Press Mentions Nation WHO offers guidance and tools for urban leaders to tackle the leading causes of death in cities DailyHunt: The initiatives cited in the report are similar to those implemented under the Partnership for Healthy Cities initiative, a joint WHO, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Vital Strategies initiative that brings over 50 cities together to share policies and plans on tackling NCDs and injuries.
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.
Campaigns India – Tobacco Control – Tears you apart This testimonial campaign highlights the health harms of using tobacco.
Campaigns India – Tobacco Control – What damage will this cigarette do? This campaign shows the health harms of smoking and highlights the fact that every cigarette does damage.
Campaigns India – Tobacco Control – Clinical This campaign highlights the health harms of smoking bidi cigarettes in India.