City Health

Now in Phase II, the Partnership for Healthy Cities protects over 300 million people whose leaders have selected among 14 proven strategies to improve public health.

With the right policies and priorities, cities can lead a transformation in health, to a future where each sector of society can do its part to help people live longer, healthier lives.

In honor of this year's World Cities Day, we sat down with Ariella Rojhani, Director of the Partnership for Healthy Cities at Vital Strategies, to learn more about this global network of cities committed to saving lives through NCD and injury prevention.

Ten African cities joined public health experts in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia last month to highlight remarkable success stories about preventing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and road injuries—and to learn from regional experts and from each other.

Air pollution is a serious and pervasive public health problem affecting nine out of ten people worldwide, and yet most people only think about air pollution when they can see it or smell it. In fact, most air pollution occurs at concentrations that are invisible and odorless, but still dangerous.

Read the briefing from the Vital Strategies Environmental Health Division and UNICEF on the threat air pollution poses to children’s health in Indonesia

World Asthma Day shines a light on a health condition that is perhaps the most commonly recognized by the general public as having a clinical and an environmental dimension.

April 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of AirNow – a flagship program of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designed to help communicate information on local air quality within the United States.

Plastic’s contribution to air pollution, especially in the world’s poorer countries, is an insidious but important way in which plastic pollution harms people today, not to mention the impact on future generations.