Each year, Vital Strategies works on pressing health issues around the world towards its vision: A world where everyone is protected by equitable and effective health systems. But how does Vital Strategies achieve its objectives? How do we partner with governments and civil society in more than 80 countries to improve people’s health and promote equity?
For our Year in Review, we take a look “Behind the Numbers.”
We reveal how we’ve helped to increase the number of birth and death registrations in Bangladesh, reduce the number of speeding cars on Accra’s roads in Ghana, and expose thousands of examples of hidden tobacco marketing on social media.
These aren’t just cold data points: They represent stronger health systems and more productive and prosperous communities, enabling millions of people to live longer, healthier lives.
Vital Strategies partners with governments, communities and civil society organizations to design and implement evidence-based, locally driven policies and practices to advance public health using four key approaches: policymaking for health, strategic communication and advocacy, program implementation, and data-driven decision-making.
The cities and countries we work with own these successes and they are the ones who will sustain them.
Read our 2022 Year in Review, where we unpack the numbers and tell the stories behind them.
Young people from Binh Thuan Youth Union in Vietnam advocate for smoke-free beaches.
The city of Buenos Aires carried out a tactical urban planning project aimed at redistributing the use of streets, gaining space for pedestrians, and achieving a real change in drivers’ behavior so that they adapt their speed to 20 km in school environments.
Vital Strategies created the first traveling national Overdose Memorial, and the first installation was unveiled in Newark, New Jersey on International Overdose Awareness Day with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and local advocates.
Vital Strategies’ Civil Registration and Vital Statistics program, part of the Data for Health initiative, supported a workshop in October 2022 in Mfou, Cameroon to develop an action plan for institutionalization of CRVS process maps.
As a part of the Partnership for Healthy Cities initiative, high-fatality intersections in the downtown of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic were given crosswalks and other pedestrian protections and traffic-calming measures to reduce speeding.