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. 🔗 https://vitalstrat.org/3TSDC01

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: https://vitalstrat.org/3RGqESk

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: https://vitalstrat.org/4wMLEWG Sportswashing Through Media: https://vitalstrat.org/44TDst3

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.

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

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.

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

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: https://vitalstrat.org/4ge6Srm

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: https://vitalstrat.org/4v3VZMn

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: https://vitalstrat.org/3T3SKap #Cities4Health

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: https://vitalstrat.org/4eOnX8Z

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: https://vitalstrat.org/4eOnX8Z

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.

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.

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.

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

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: https://vitalstrat.org/4eCTiLz

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: https://vitalstrat.org/4uWmC5P

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.

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.

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: https://vitalstrat.org/43ALKUv

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. ↪️ https://vitalstrat.org/4xB0XCP

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: https://vitalstrat.org/4eL0Pt5

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.

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: https://vitalstrat.org/4otsJ01 #Cities4Health

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.

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: https://vitalstrat.org/3UcLXJr #Cities4Health

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.

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.

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: https://vitalstrat.org/4xfGuDn