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A timeline of global updates from Resolve to Save Lives

RTSL 2023 Year in Review
Cartoon of RFK Jr. against the food industry in the Wall Street Journal Essay by Tom Friden and Tom Farley "We Battled Big Food. Can RFK, Jr. Succeed Where We Failed?"

For WSJ, our President and CEO Dr. Tom Frieden talks nutrition in the U.S. and beyond
cover page featuring healthy, colorful foods in serving trays

Resolve to Save Lives’ new global guidelines for healthy public food procurement
graphic with Colombian flag and large yellow 63 in center; text states Colombia is latest country to adopt a best-practice policy to eliminate trans fat

Colombia protects 52 million people from toxic trans fat
An ERPHC mentorship session at a health facility in Uganda. Credit: Uganda Infectious Diseases Institute

More alerts and fewer false alarms for infectious disease outbreaks
Field investigation for the Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Kasese. Photo credit: Kasese Local Government

How adopting 7-1-7 in Uganda helped stop a deadly virus in its tracks

RTSL trans fat experts speak out
Distribution of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) supplies at a holy water pilgrimage site in Amhara, Ethiopia. Image credit: Hanna Mekonnen, Ethiopian Public Health Institute.

“Enhanced Situational Awareness” saves lives from cholera in Ethiopia
Senior Vice President for Prevent Epidemics at Resolve to Save Lives, Amanda McClelland, announces new $10 million pledge to WHO to combat heart disease and save millions of lives at 2024 World Health Summit in Berlin

Big news from the World Health Summit: a new pledge to improve global heart health
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Blood pressure measures done right
Health care workers attending an ERPHC continued medical education session in Uganda. Credit: Resolve to Save Lives

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
image of digital health system app on smart phone

We optimized DHIS2 for busy hypertension and diabetes programs
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