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Healthier food

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

Countering Industry Interference: Food Industry Watch Resources

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Reducing Demand for Unhealthy Food: Resources

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Advocacy Action Guide Four Phases to Health Policy Success

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

NOURISHING Database

World Cancer Research Fund

RTSL Global Nutrition Database  for Packaged Foods

Resolve to Save Lives

Resolve to Save Lives pledges $10 million to WHO to combat heart disease and save millions of lives

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

Getting Fiscal Policies Right: Lessons and recommendations across NCD risk factors

NCD Alliance
An NCD Alliance report identifying common best practice fiscal policies and highly effective measures for reducing the burden of noncommunicable diseases across key risk factors.
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”

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 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

RTSL experts take home 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

Research Roundup: March to July 2024

REPLACE Initiative’s role in ending trans fat

New heart health project launches in India