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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 14/10/2026

Join Vital Strategies’ webinar to hear Dr. Britta Matthes speak about her research on the Policy Implementation Playbook and industry tactics the tobacco industry uses to interfere in policy. RSVP: vitalstrat.org/3VB5tD5 @tcrgbath.bsky.social @centre21cpubhealth.bsky.social

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 23/09/2026

We’re Hiring! We’re expanding our tobacco control work in the Africa region. Learn more and apply here: 🔹 Senior Technical Advisor, Eastern and Central Africa Region, Mozambique: vitalstrat.org/4hk4D4J 🔹 Technical Consultant, Gabon: vitalstrat.org/4y95ood

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 18/09/2026

We are thrilled to announce & welcome the inaugural members of the Vital Strategies Global Advisory Council. We look forward to learning from their leadership as we continue to partner with governments & communities globally to help build healthier societies. ➡️ vitalstrat.org/4Ajww5x

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 15/09/2026

Site visits, peer-to-peer learning and cross-country dialogue gave participants the opportunity to see different aspects of MLDI in practice and examine how MLDI data can inform public health decision-making.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 15/09/2026

In this edition of #StrongerTogether, learn how @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social #Data4Health teams from India, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka came together to exchange experiences and explore approaches to strengthening medicolegal death investigation (MLDI) systems.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 10/09/2026

@foreignpolicy.com's Health Forum @ UNGA81 will convene experts to discuss policies, technologies & partnerships shaping health systems. Join our President & CEO Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet for the session "Leapfrogging Into the Future: Investing for AI-Enabled Health." RSVP: vitalstrat.org/3UJZvPF

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 09/09/2026

Read the full report: vitalstrat.org/4ynqtLu

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 09/09/2026

Our global impact was made possible through close collaboration with governments, partners, and communities dedicated to protecting health and saving lives.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 09/09/2026

📊 Our 2025 Impact Report is here. We deliver solutions that address the world's leading causes of illness, injury and death, so people everywhere can live healthier, more vital lives.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 18/08/2026

On today's The Price Is Right: Alcohol vs. Essentials, we travel to Brazil and see how the price of beer compares to everyday essentials like coffee, beans, and rice. The verdict? Beer was the cheapest of them all. A product that causes harm shouldn't be more affordable than the essentials.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 14/08/2026

Congrats to Nicolas Guzman-Tordecilla, Vital Strategies Healthy Food Policy Fellow, on his 3rd dissertation paper! Finding: unhealthy food brands get volume discounts on premium TV ad slots (even kids' shows), while healthy brands pay more for the same visibility. 📄 vitalstrat.org/4wtJM4m

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 10/08/2026

On #AfricaCRVSDay, we're spotlighting #TheLifesavingPotentialOfDeathData in Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, & Zimbabwe. Data collected by CRVS systems are helping to: 📊 Reduce road crashes 📊 Tackle NCDs 📊 Reduce maternal, neonatal, & child deaths Learn more: dataforhealth.bloomberg.org

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 04/08/2026

New systematic review led by Ornella Moreno-Mattar, a Vital Strategies Healthy Food Policy Fellow: octagonal "high-in" warning labels boost understanding & are associated with fewer purchases of unhealthy foods across Chile, Colombia, Ecuador & Mexico. 🔗 vitalstrat.org/3TSDC01

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 30/07/2026

Join us for the webinar: PILLARs Peer Learning Exchange: Digital ID Systems and Public Infrastructures in the Age of AI. 🗓️ August 12 🕑 9:00 a.m. EST 📍 Online Register here: vitalstrat.org/3RGqESk

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 17/07/2026

At #ICO2026, our Behavioral Insights Lab shared a clear takeaway: sponsorship, reshares & friendly media coverage work as one marketing system for sweetened beverages. Reports 👇 From Stadiums to Screens: vitalstrat.org/4wMLEWG Sportswashing Through Media: vitalstrat.org/44TDst3

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 16/07/2026

Newly published research found that risks associated with alcohol begin at just one drink a day and that no amount of alcohol offers net health benefits. The case for policies that help entire populations consume less alcohol has never been stronger.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 15/07/2026

As heatwaves happen earlier, more frequently, and with greater intensity, cities often bear the brunt. But they also have the answers to keep communities cool—and save lives. Grace from our Partnership for Healthy Cities team explains. #Cities4Health

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 14/07/2026

This #StrongerTogether feature spotlights South-South collaboration in action. Colombia is helping fellow @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social #Data4Health teams in Bolivia and Paraguay strengthen cause-of-death coding, drawing on its own experience implementing IRIS.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 09/07/2026

We're hiring! We're expanding our food policy work and looking for a Senior Communication Manager based in New York. Apply here: vitalstrat.org/3TapRJP

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 02/07/2026

Vital Strategies congratulates the Philippine Department of Health on joining the Open Government Partnership on Non-Communicable Disease Prevention. Read more in our statement from Gan Quan, Senior Vice President for Tobacco Control: vitalstrat.org/4ge6Srm

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 01/07/2026

Thank you to those who attended today’s webinar “Baguio City: A Success Story in Smoke-Free Implementation”. In case you missed it, watch the recording here to learn more about smoke-free implementation: vitalstrat.org/4v3VZMn

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 30/06/2026

A new @thelancet.com feature by Jacqui Thornton explores how São Paulo, Brazil’s SampaAdapta initiative is combining temperature monitoring, health data & community participation to help inform where future climate shelters are most needed. Read more: vitalstrat.org/3T3SKap #Cities4Health

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 30/06/2026

Join our tobacco control implementation webinar to hear representatives from Baguio City, including Mayor Benjamin Magalong, share their experience implementing smoke-free policies. RSVP here: vitalstrat.org/4eOnX8Z

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 29/06/2026

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 29/06/2026

Healthy Food Policy Fellow Evelyn Núñez developed a board game in Oaxaca, Mexico as part of her Ph.D. thesis—a creative intervention to help kids make healthier food choices. Vital Strategies' Healthy Food Policy Fellows build research & legal capacity to create healthier food environments.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 25/06/2026

Healthy Food Policy Fellow Stephanie Whiteman is contributing to the Barbados Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax Evaluation Steering Committee — helping ensure strong evidence continues to inform the sweetened beverage tax that aims to improve the food environment & reduce consumption.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 25/06/2026

Read to learn more about how to build sustainable, comprehensive tobacco cessation ecosystems that encourage users to quit, prevent uptake of tobacco and nicotine products, and improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 25/06/2026

We're excited to launch our new report Strengthening the Tobacco Cessation Ecosystem: Strategies for Improving Access, Use, Success, Synergy and Impact at the National, Subnational and Organizational Levels. 🔗 vitalstrat.org/4vxP1k0

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 24/06/2026

A new report jointly authored with @unhcr.org and supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies as part of its #Data4Health Initiative explores the consequences of the linkage between the civil registration and national identity systems. Read it here: vitalstrat.org/4eCTiLz

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 23/06/2026

This #WorldNoTobaccoDay, Vital Strategies and its partners around the world collaborated on campaigns, workshops and activations to “unmask the appeal” of tobacco and nicotine products. Read more in our blog: vitalstrat.org/4uWmC5P

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 23/06/2026

From Rwanda to Cambodia, peer learning is helping strengthen cancer surveillance. In this edition of #StrongerTogether, we highlight how Bloomberg Philanthropies #Data4Health teams in Rwanda and Cambodia are working together to advance cancer data systems & support evidence-based control planning.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 23/06/2026

What if we told you that alcohol costs less than eggs 🍳? Last April, we played a game with our RESET Alcohol partners at the 2026 Global Alcohol Policy Conference in Rio—and the results were eye-opening. In a lot of countries, alcohol is still shockingly affordable compared to basic everyday items.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 18/06/2026

Public health professionals have tried to develop and deliver specialized cessation treatments that only a tiny fraction of tobacco users end up using. We must increase the reach of population-level cessation treatments. Join our June 25 webinar to learn more. RSVP: vitalstrat.org/43ALKUv

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 17/06/2026

When health data is analyzed at the population level without disaggregating by gender, the realities of women, girls and non-binary people are lost—and so is the opportunity to serve them. Read more to see what closing the gender data gap looks like in practice. ↪️ vitalstrat.org/4xB0XCP

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 17/06/2026

At the World Health Assembly, the Bloomberg Philanthropies #Data4Health Initiative hosted a panel with experts from Cambodia's Ministry of Health, WHO and the CDC Foundation on communicating the impact of #TheLifesavingPotentialOfDeathData. Read more: vitalstrat.org/4eL0Pt5

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 16/06/2026

On #DayOfTheAfrican Child, we’re spotlighting Zimbabwe’s achievements. A team from Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Women's Affairs and Zimstat analyzed data to develop a policy brief recommending menstrual health education and training in reusable pad production.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 15/06/2026

13,000 premature deaths. USD 4.5 billion in losses. New evidence from Bogotá shows the real cost of air pollution—& how cities can act faster to protect those most at risk. The burden falls hardest on lower-income communities.The data now shows where: vitalstrat.org/4otsJ01 #Cities4Health

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 12/06/2026

Food Policy Program Healthy Food Policy Fellows, Shaniek Parks & Yenny Paola Rueda Guevara, presented research at the 2026 @isbnpa-is.bsky.social conference alongside research partner Shu Wen Ng from the Global Food Research Program at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 11/06/2026

Cancer, heart disease & diabetes are leading killers globally—but most are preventable. Cities like Bengaluru are mapping how everyday environments shape disease risk & using that data to build smarter, targeted health policies. More here: vitalstrat.org/3UcLXJr #Cities4Health

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 11/06/2026

In partnership with the CDC Foundation, this effort is strengthening the capacity to produce and use timely, high-quality public health data for decision-making.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 11/06/2026

Next in #StrongerTogether — a series highlighting how Bloomberg Philanthropies #Data4Health country teams are strengthening data systems, policy & action via cross-country collaboration — discover how Côte d'Ivoire’s public health bulletin evolved from a national initiative into a regional resource.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 10/06/2026

New dissertation research from Healthy Food Policy Fellow Nicholas Guzman-Tordecilla shows how the timing of monthly cash transfers can improve diet quality among low-income older adults: more fruits and vegetables, less ultra-processed food. 📄 Health Economics: vitalstrat.org/4xfGuDn

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 10/06/2026

Access to healthy food shouldn't depend on where you live. In Vancouver, city leaders are mapping food access across neighborhoods because the distance to a grocery store isn't just a convenience issue—it's a health and equity issue. Read more: vitalstrat.org/4e0E0l2 #Cities4Health

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 04/06/2026

NEW blog focused on how #KickBigSodaOut is demanding an end to FIFA’s Big Soda sponsorship deal by 2030 ahead of the 2026 #FIFAWorldCup. Read the full story: vitalstrat.org/3RLiYhw Then join the movement to end Big Soda's unhealthy sponsorships at kickbigsodaout.org

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 02/06/2026

Today on Heat Action Day, we are proud to launch our factsheet on Heat and Early Childhood, developed with ARNEC. 🌡️ Extreme heat can seriously harm children’s development. 👶 Children, especially infants, are less able to regulate their body temperatures because their bodies are smaller.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 31/05/2026

In honor of World No Tobacco Day, Vital Strategies' Tobacco Cessation Program is excited to announce our upcoming report on Strengthening the Tobacco Cessation Ecosystem. Join us on June 25 at 11:00 a.m. EST for the launch webinar. Register here: vitalstrat.org/43ALKUv

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 30/05/2026

Over 1,000 young people came together across Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico and the Philippines ahead of World No Tobacco Day as part of the F*Nicotine campaign, demanding policymakers protect them from nicotine addiction and the industry’s marketing tactics. Read more: vitalstrat.org/4uOCpVd

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 29/05/2026

As Spain considers expanding national legislation, this research provides important local evidence. Read the full report here: vitalstrat.org/3RCkYsn #Cities4Health

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 29/05/2026

A new study from Barcelona's Public Health Agency @salutpublicabcn.bsky.social found evidence of second-hand smoke in 85% of bars & restaurant terraces across the city. In semi-enclosed terraces, where smoking is already prohibited under Spanish law, that number grew to 9 out of every 10 terraces.

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Vital Strategies @vitalstrategies.org · 29/05/2026

Even outdoors, secondhand smoke harms health, increasing the risk of lung cancer, stroke and heart disease. That's why policy matters. #WorldNoTobaccoDay

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