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A timeline of global updates from Resolve to Save Lives

RTSL 2023 Year in Review
Health care workers attending an ERPHC continued medical education session in Uganda.

The first nine months of Epidemic-Ready Primary Health Care
Dr. Jedidah Kiprop and colleagues work to verify data a first step in confirming an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Kenya

Kenya team tackles Rift Valley Fever outbreak with 7-1-7
Health care worker using smartphone

Training health care workers to prevent epidemics—with their smartphones
social media graphic with black background and white salt shaker in top right corner that replaces the traditional phrase "pass the salt" with "switch the salt" with the word switch in orange and the word pass crossed out. used to promote potassium-enriched reduced-sodium salt

“Reduced-sodium salts…are a great alternative to regular salt”
Testing for Covid-19 in Nigeria © Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

“Surveillance is a public health superpower”
Image of man holding aching heart in background. Headshot of RTSL director Dr. Indu Bhushan and CNBC-TV18 log

“India cannot afford to ignore the dangers posed by trans fats”
conference room group photo with members from RTSL, Nutrition International, WHO India, and the Iodine Global Network in the forefront and projector screen with title slide in the background

Balancing sodium reduction and iodine nutrition for heart health
Participants at a training for traditional healers in Kenema, Sierra Leone, in April 2024.

How “event-based surveillance” is saving lives Sierra Leone
image of Dr. Amit, Dr. Manika, Dr. Swati, and Dr. Murugunathan on stage for a panel discussion for the CARDIOBASE 2024 panel

Resolve to Save Lives at CARDIOBASE 2024
graphic template with screenshot of article and title "Text messages successfully bring patients back to care and help keep them there" with RTSL cardiovascular health heart logo and Journal of Human Hypertension publication logo.

Supporting consistent care with consistent communication

2024 Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award
image of panel for new Nigeria health policy launch

New policies in Nigeria will help save lives from heart disease
Participants in "Law & Health Security: Strengthening Nigeria's Legal Preparedness."

Nigeria passes first subnational health security bill

Designing tools that work for health care workers

Research Roundup: March to July 2024

REPLACE Initiative’s role in ending trans fat
graphic template with screenshot of article and title "decentralizing care improves high blood pressure control and patient outcomes" with RTSL cardiovascular health heart logo and BMC publication logo.

New study encourages health care closer to home

New heart health project launches in India
A percent with blood pressure controlled chart depicting a blue intervention column that is higher than the orange usual care column

WHO’s HEARTS package significantly improves high blood pressure control
Graphic of Ethopian health care worker

Ethiopia’s first national infection prevention and control budget