NOURISHING Database
The NOURISHING database, built on the NOURISHING policy framework, offers a comprehensive set of policies to guide policymakers, researchers, and civil society in promoting healthy diets and combating obesity and NCDs across ten key action areas.
RTSL Global Nutrition Database for Packaged Foods
Provides centralized access to category level nutrient data for packaged foods sold around the world
Resolve to Save Lives pledges $10 million to WHO to combat heart disease and save millions of lives
Funding will accelerate initiatives to eliminate trans fats, reduce salt intake, and control hypertension in low- and middle-income countries 14 OCTOBER 2024 (BERLIN, GERMANY)—Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL) today announced a $10 million pledge to the World Health Organization (WHO) to accelerate collaborative work over the next four years to save lives from heart disease, […]
Big news from the World Health Summit: a new pledge to improve global heart health
Resolve to Save Lives pledges $10 million to WHO to combat heart disease and save millions of lives.
Getting Fiscal Policies Right: Lessons and recommendations across NCD risk factors
NCD report highlighting common best practice fiscal policies consistent with NCD prevention as well as measures that are recommended as highly effective in reducing the enormous strain of NCDs.
“Reduced-sodium salts…are a great alternative to regular salt”
In a new op-ed for Health Affairs Forefront, Professor Bruce Neal, Executive Director for The George Institute for Global Health and our own Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, call for switching the salt we use to a healthier alternative—potassium-enriched, low-sodium salts—to improve heart health. Low-sodium salts look and taste just […]
“India cannot afford to ignore the dangers posed by trans fats”
Dr. Indu Bhushan calls for strict enforcement of trans fat regulations to save an estimated 70,000 deaths per year in India.
Balancing sodium reduction and iodine nutrition for heart health
Salt is often fortified with iodine, a necessary ingredient for health. But too much sodium, the main ingredient in salt, is bad for the heart. RTSL recently co-hosted a meeting on “Harmonizing Iodine Nutrition with Salt Reduction” in collaboration with Nutrition International, WHO India, and the Iodine Global Network. Discussions focused on the importance of […]
Resolve to Save Lives at CARDIOBASE 2024
The RTSL India team discussed ‘Unhealthy Diets and Cardiovascular Disease’ at CARDIOBASE 2024, emphasizing the importance of salt reduction, trans fat elimination, and healthier oil adoption.
RTSL experts take home 2024 Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award
Our team received the 2024 Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award for an abstract on increasing usage of low-sodium iodized salt.
New policies in Nigeria will help save lives from heart disease
In partnership with Resolve to Save Lives, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare unveiled a bold new strategy.
REPLACE Initiative’s role in ending trans fat
Since the formation of the global partnership and launch of REPLACE, 43 countries have taken action against the harms of trans fat.
7.5 million lives saved and counting
Resolve to Save Lives’ partnerships for heart health between 2018 and 2023 will result in 7.5 million fewer deaths worldwide. Here’s how we supported countries to make rapid progress, and how we measured our impact.
New heart health project launches in India
RTSL and JHPIEGO partner with the government of Madhya Pradesh to strengthen primary health care and tackle high blood pressure and diabetes.
Drs. Tom Frieden and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on global progress eliminating trans fat
In BMJ and Al Jazeera: The world has made encouraging progress to eliminate trans fat, but more than 4 billion people remain at risk.
Lower Sodium, Longer Lives in India
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.
Addressing Unhealthy Diets in India
Learn more about Resolve to Save Lives’ comprehensive, cost-effective interventions to promote healthier diets and save lives in India.
WHO’s 5-year milestone report on global trans fat elimination
By 2023, best-practice policies were in effect in 53 countries, covering 3.7 billion people or 46% of the world’s population, as compared to 6% just 5 years prior.
Countdown to 2023: 5-year progress report on global trans fat elimination
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 […]
Milestone 5-year report on progress to eliminate toxic trans fat released
Statement from Dr. Tom Frieden, President & CEO, Resolve to Save Lives 24 JUNE 2024 (NEW YORK, USA)—“At the start of 2024, 53 countries had introduced trans fat regulations, protecting nearly half of the world’s population from this toxic chemical and preventing as many as 183,000 deaths each year. The new 5-year REPLACE report released […]
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.
Virtual Course: Regulatory Policies to Prevent Obesity and Diet-related Noncommunicable Diseases
Virtual course developed by PAHO aiming to strengthen capacity to design and advance effective regulatory policies that reduce the demand for and offer of ultra-processed and processed products to prevent obesity and diet-related NCDs in the Region of the Americas.
Indonesia can improve health by eliminating harmful trans fat
In the Jakarta Post, Dr. Renu Garg and N. Paranietharan discuss the importance of protecting people in Indonesia, which risks becoming a dumping ground for trans fat-rich food products banned by other countries in the region.
Five countries commit to implementing comprehensive sodium reduction policies to improve health and save at least 39,000 lives per year
New commitments made at 77th World Health Assembly event hosted by Resolve to Save Lives and NCD Alliance 28 May 2024 (GENEVA, SWITZERLAND)—Bangladesh, Cameroon, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Singapore made new commitments today to implement comprehensive policies that will protect their populations from the harms of high-sodium diets. These commitments, made during the 77th World Health […]
Salt reduction event at 77th World Health Assembly
At the event we co-hosted with the NCD Alliance and WHO, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Singapore made new commitments to implement comprehensive policies that will protect at least 37,000 people from the harms of eating too much salt.
Colombia leads on reducing salt-related diseases
Watch: How Colombia is tackling non-communicable diseases through policies that improve heart health by reducing salt intake.
Introducing Resolve to Save Lives: India
Our experts in New Delhi look forward to continued progress in blood pressure control, trans fat elimination and sodium reduction.
WHO’s 2nd edition Sodium Benchmarks report
A webinar highlights lessons learned from the first report, current progress on global salt reduction, and next steps countries can take to promote heart health.
Tackling NCDs: best buys and other recommended interventions for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, 2nd ed
WHO’s updated list of “best buys” and recommended interventions for addressing NCDs, aligned with the extended Global Action Plan (2013–2030) to help countries achieve the nine voluntary NCD targets and advance SDG 3 on good health and well-being.
NIH webinar highlights five years of promoting heart health at RTSL
For the U.S. National Institute of Health’s HERO series, RTSL’s global health equity research takes center stage.