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Joint External Evaluation

An overview of the Joint External Evaluation (JEE), a voluntary, collaborative assessment of a country’s ability to find, rapidly stop and prevent disease outbreaks and other public health threats.

Measures to Improve COVID-19 Response

A step- by-step framework to use in analyzing and improving their systems of epidemic control. This outlines targets for key completeness measures and time intervals between activities, based on mathematical models of case investigation and contact tracing, to effectively reduce COVID-19 transmission.

Building resilient populations in the face of COVID-19

This document highlights the need to reduce noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors—such as poor nutrition, tobacco, alcohol use, and air pollution—in order to protect populations from severe COVID-19 outcomes and future pandemics. It recommends evidence-based policies, like trans fat elimination and tobacco control, to build resilience and promote healthier, longer lives.

Decentralizing hypertension care in Punjab and Maharashtra States

By bringing care delivery closer to communities, we can provide more people with access to quality care, improve hypertension control and save more lives. Our experts in India documented the decentralization process and its impact on patient outcomes in nine districts from 2018–2022.  

Patient retention to hypertension treatment: A mixed-method study from North India

Factors affecting patient retention to hypertension treatment in a North Indian State: A mixed-method study

Improving hypertension control requires patient retention to hypertension treatment, which requires ready access to care. This study highlights the need for improved primary care services and patient-centered services, including extended clinic hours and diagnostic facilities. Experts from Resolve to Save Lives India analyzed patient retention rates in hypertension treatment using a mixed-method concurrent design in […]

Lower Sodium, Longer Lives in India

Cover image from "Lower Sodium, Longer LIves in India" from RTSL

Sodium reduction is the single most important dietary intervention for improving heart health and saving lives in India. Learn more in this resource developed by Resolve to Save Lives.

Countdown to 2023: 5-year progress report on global trans fat elimination

report cover page with yellow map of the world indicating protection from toxic trans fat globally

New World Health Organization progress report, supported by RTSL. Since initial call to action in 2018 for all countries to eliminate toxic trans fat and protect their people from this risk factor for heart attack and strokes, 43 more countries have banned trans fat protecting an additional 2.8 billion people, or 46% of the world—as […]

Fiscal policies to promote healthy diets: WHO guideline

A WHO guideline offering Member States recommendations on implementing fiscal policies, such as taxes and subsidies, to promote healthy diets by influencing consumer behavior through price adjustments at the retail level.      

Global sodium reduction strategies course

A nine-module online course to help policy makers and health advocates design, plan, and implement global sodium reduction interventions at low- and middle-income countries

Blood pressure poster study

A qualitative study conducted by Resolve to Save Lives determined this poster to be the most impactful for encouraging patients to take their blood pressure medications daily. Forty patients from five different places said they prefer this poster because it shows someone actually taking their medication, which made clear what they needed to do.

Urban pandemic response: Survey results describing the experiences from twenty-five cities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Urban pandemic response: Survey results describing the experiences from twenty-five cities during the COVID-19 pandemic

How do local governments contribute to pandemic response? For PLOS Global Public Health, Resolve to Save Lives collaborated with colleagues at Center for Global Health Science & Security and Vital Strategies to assess government responsibilities, the timeline of response activities, challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic among members of the Partnership for Healthy Cities. Among […]

Understanding, preventing, and stopping epidemics

Understanding, preventing, and stopping epidemics

The Smithsonian exhibition, Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World, shows that the world cannot afford to wait for the next epidemic—we must act on the information that we have now to end preventable outbreaks. Writing for the Lancet, Resolve to Save Lives reflects on the impact of epidemics over the past century, from Nipah virus […]

Increasing uptake of low-sodium salt

Fact sheet highlighting the addition of low-sodium salt to one’s diet to reduce blood pressure and associated risk of heart attack or stroke.

Healthy School Canteen

Includes resources to support transitioning to healthier school canteens for school leaders, canteen managers, parents, and communities.

ACT Healthy Food and Drink Choices

Standards for food and drinks available to staff, volunteers, and visitors for ACT Health premises; links to Healthy Food and Drink Choices and Vending Machine Management Policies.

Kaiser Permanente Healthy Picks website

Describes healthy food guidelines and implementation resources for hospital food venues, including patient menus, cafeterias, coffee carts, kiosks, vending and gift shops.