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Global Health Checkup: Celebrating Progress in Vietnam to Reduce Tobacco Use, Seeking Opportunities to Go FurtherBy Dr. Kelly Henning, Public Health program lead at Bloomberg Philanthropies An astounding 45 percent of adult males in Vietnam use tobacco, compared to only 1 percent of women. These high smoking rates among men in Vietnam are at the core of the country’s health problems with more than 40,000 tobacco-related deaths each year. The challenges in Vie...
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Marking World No Tobacco Day in VietnamBy Kelly Henning, Public Health Team Today is World No Tobacco Day, a day that highlights the importance of reducing tobacco use across the globe. Bloomberg Philanthropies’ representatives spent the run up to this important landmark in Vietnam, which recently brought into force a new tobacco control law.
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Vietnam Takes Major Step to Reduce Tobacco UseBy Kelly Henning, Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Health Team Vietnam is home to more than 15 million adult smokers—a staggering one-sixth of the country’s total population. But yesterday, a new law went into effect that will reduce that number, saving lives and reducing Vietnam’s healthcare burden through proven tobacco use reduction strategies.
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Follow the Data Podcast: Global Health Check-Up with Dr. Kelly HenningTobacco is a deadly killer, claiming over seven million lives every year, with most of the deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Mike Bloomberg has been committed to tobacco control since first entering office as New York City Mayor, and Bloomberg Philanthropies has invested one billion dollars to help implement tobacco control meas...
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Global Health Checkup: Tobacco Control and Road Safety in Indonesia and the PhilippinesBy Dr. Kelly Henning, Public Health program lead at Bloomberg Philanthropies Earlier this summer, I arrived in Jakarta, Indonesia, in the middle of a drenching monsoon. In this part of the world, monsoons are common and fortunately don’t deter our partners at various government ministries and nonprofits from carrying on their life-saving work. I fo...
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Global Health Checkup: Seven Steps to Tackle NCDs in Brazilby Dr. Kelly Henning, Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Health team lead Brazil, a country known for its spectacular coastline, football prowess, and vibrant culture, has also become known in the public health community for its progressive action to prevent noncommunicable diseases. On the first stop of my “Global Health Checkup,” I was not only wowe...
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Drowning: A silent epidemicBy Kelly Larson, Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Health team Drowning is often considered a “silent epidemic” due to the lack of attention it receives around the world. Bloomberg Philanthropies is dedicated to addressing this under-recognized public health issue. Our work began in 2012, with a study on the effectiveness of community daycares and pl...
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Follow the Data Podcast: Reducing Tobacco Use, A Year in ReviewIn honor of the winners of the 2018 Bloomberg Philanthropies Tobacco Awards and the progress these countries have made, we revisit one of our favorite podcast episodes about the worldwide fight to reduce tobacco use. This episode’s conversation is between Neena Prasad of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Public Health team, Yolonda Richardson, from the Cam...
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2018 Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards for Global Tobacco Control: Meet the Winning OrganizationsEach year, nearly seven million people worldwide are killed by tobacco use, mostly in developing nations. The 2018 winners highlight the progress being made to control tobacco use and show the effectiveness of the MPOWER strategies, developed by WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases Mike Bloomberg and former WHO Director-General Margar...
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Meet our 2017 CollegePoint Scholars! (Part 3)Thirty CollegePoint students from the high school Class of 2017 were selected to receive scholarships based on their stellar academic achievement and completion of key CollegePoint milestones. The scholarship, supported by the Thompson Family Foundation and Bloomberg LP employees, is a last-dollar award designed to cover unmet costs for students at...