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Healthier food

Policy brief: Front-of-package warning labels give consumers the freedom to choose healthy

Global Health Advocacy Incubator & Resolve to Save Lives
Use this brief to learn how to adopt FOPL polices and implement nutrient profile models – the foundation for FOPLs that work.

9 million lives saved and counting

Resolve to Save Lives
Heart health partnerships between 2018 and 2023 will result in 9 million fewer deaths worldwide. This report details how.
Graphic reading: Pakistan is the latest country (64th) to adopt a best-practice policy to eliminate trans fat.

Pakistan protects more than 240 million people by eliminating harmful trans fat

Nigeria launches National Sodium Reduction Guideline

Guide to developing nutrition standards

Resolve to Save Lives
Specific, measurable, and enforceable global standards for public food procurement

Resolve to Save Lives at EPI | Lifestyle Scientific Sessions 2025

Resolve to Save Lives partners interviewed by the press in Indonesia following healthy food environment roundtable

Stakeholders gather to protect Indonesians against artificial trans fat and high salt foods

COVER: Fourth Time a Charm?—Howto Make the UN High-LevelMeeting on Noncommunicable Diseases Effective George Alleyne, MD; Awa Marie Coll-Seck, MD; Thomas R. Frieden, MD; Chris Tufton, DBA

Fourth time a charm?—How to make the UN high-level meeting on noncommunicable diseases effective

Resolve to Save Lives
Dr. Tom Frieden and colleagues outline the interventions governments can adopt now to save lives from NCDs.

New article in JAMA calls for less rhetoric and more action before, during, and after 2025 UN High-Level Meeting on noncommunicable diseases

Trans fat elimination: Maximizing lives saved through policy implementation and enforcement

Resolve to Save Lives
Resolve to Save Lives’ guidance for enforcing best-practice trans fat elimination policies.
Cover of WHO low-sodium salt guideline

Use of lower-sodium salt substitutes: WHO guideline

WHO recommends that adults replace regular salt with low-sodium salt
Webinar graphic highlighting panel of nutrition experts

Webinar: using data on packaged food to drive policy change and save lives

Resolve to Save Lives
Global nutrition experts discuss how data on packaged food contents can support policy change and create healthier food environments.

Developing and implementing a trans fat elimination policy: A 7-step guide for policymakers

Resolve to Save Lives
Practical steps for countries to develop and implement best practice trans fat elimination policies
trans fat lab techs sitting at laboratory table with white lab coat and blue head cap and mask

Training lab techs to keep toxic trans fat out of Nigeria’s food

Screen shot of cover of Resolve to Save Live's infographic summarizing the World Health Organization's Guideline for the Use of Low-Sodium salt alternatives

WHO recommends lower-sodium, potassium-enriched salt in place of table salt

Resolve to Save Lives
WHO’s recommendation to use low-sodium salt, why it matters, and what it means for countries 
Cover image from WHO's new guidelines on low-sodium salt

The George Institute for Global Health and Resolve to Save Lives welcome WHO’s recommendation to replace regular table salt with lower-sodium salt substitutes

User guide that decisionmakers, researchers, and advocates can reference while using RTSL's Global Nutrition Database for Packaged Foods

User Guide for RTSL’s Global Nutrition Database

Resolve to Save Lives
User guide that decisionmakers, researchers, and advocates can reference while using RTSL’s Global Nutrition Database for Packaged Foods.

Tools for the Assessment of the Public Food Procurement and Policy Landscape

Resolve to Save Lives
A comprehensive assessment of the existing food procurement landscape is crucial to the development, implementation, and evaluation of a healthy public food procurement policy.
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

Lower sodium, longer lives

Resolve to Save Lives
Sodium reduction is the single most important dietary intervention for improving heart health and saving lives
cover page featuring healthy, colorful foods in serving trays

Resolve to Save Lives’ new global guidelines for healthy public food procurement

World health organization GIFNA promotion card with colorful text bubbles emerging from a world map

Meet GIFNA – WHO’s upgraded nutrition policy database

screenshot of first page of Nutrients study about food labeling study in Bangladesh

Designing Front-of-Package Labels to Inform Consumers and Encourage Healthier Food Choices in Bangladesh: A Qualitative Study

Lindsay S. Taillie, et al.
New study co-authored by RTSL suggests that warning labels are more effective for helping consumers avoid nutrients of concern like excess salt, sugar, and fat.
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

screenshot of Frontiers journal article on warning labels for packaged foods

Global overview of government-endorsed nutrition labeling policies of packaged foods: a document review

Ummay Afroza, et al.
New study co-authored by RTSL and our partners in Bangladesh shows which warning labels on packages foods promotes healthy food choices.

Salt reduction media campaign (Ethiopia): Avoid Food That Is High in Salt (Mok Kalebet) – concept 1

Salt reduction media campaign (Ethiopia): Avoid Food That Is High in Salt (Mok Kalebet) – concept 2

RTSL trans fat experts speak out

Communications and Media Advocacy Action Guide: Eight Elements of a Public Health Communications and Media Advocacy Campaign

Global Health Advocacy Incubator
This guide helps civil society organizations plan and conduct effective media advocacy campaigns to adopt and implement strong public health policies.

FOPWL regulations around the globe

Global Health Advocacy Incubator