Transforming the 2024 amendments to WHO’s International Health Regulations from an opportunity to a reality
In a new article for BMJ Global Health, RTSL senior legal advisor Cédric Aperce and the University of Ottawa’s Roojin Habibi discuss new amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR), the legally binding agreement that requires countries to detect and report global health threats to the World Health Organization. First agreed upon at the […]
Watch: “HEARTS Voices – Access to Medicines”
Access to affordable, life-saving blood pressure medicines is the single biggest barrier to controlling hypertension worldwide. Today, only 21% of people with high blood pressure have it under control. Closing this gap to 50% by 2030 could save 75 million lives and prevent 150 million heart attacks and strokes over the next 25 years. Our […]
Join us at UNGA 2025 for “High blood pressure, high stakes”
Join us for a side event at UNGA 2025 marking the release of the World Health Organization’s 2025 Global report on hypertension and highlighting countries turning commitment to action and getting high blood pressure under control.
Promoting Healthier Food Environments at the 23rd International Congress of Nutrition
At the 23rd International Congress of Nutrition, experts showed how combining sodium reduction policies like warning labels and limits can reshape food environments and improve health.
Potassium-enriched salt substitutes: supporting global cardiovascular and kidney health
A new paper in Lancet Global Health co-written by global nephrologists and the Healthier Foods and Environments team at RTSL highlights the important role potassium-enriched, low-sodium salt alternatives can play in reducing sodium consumption and helping people living with hypertension to get their blood pressure under control. Importantly, this paper suggests that these benefits even […]
Dr. Ibrahim Abubakar Appointed to Resolve to Save Lives’ Board of Directors
AUGUST 18, 2025 (NEW YORK, NY) – Resolve to Save Live (RTSL) today announced that Dr. Ibrahim Abubakar, Vice Provost (Health) at University College London, will join its Board of Directors, effective July 30, 2025. Dr. Abubakar has served on Resolve to Save Lives Nigeria’s Board of Directors since April 6, 2022. “We’re delighted to […]
Join our Global Call to Action to Control High Blood Pressure today!
High blood pressure is the world’s leading killer, causing more deaths than all infectious diseases combined. But it doesn’t have to be. Evidence shows that progress is achievable with the right policies and investments. Our new Global Call to Action to Control High Blood Pressure aims to demonstrate the breadth of support for this important […]
Event: Protecting one billion hearts at the 78th World Health Assembly
Highlighting the importance of access to medicines to control high blood pressure and the strategies needed to do it.
Webinar unpacks industry’s role in removing trans fat from foods
New research commissioned by WHO and launched by ATNi and RTSL unpacks industry’s role in bringing the world closer to trans fat-free to save hundreds of thousands of lives each year.
Using nutrient profile models to underpin key nutrition interventions
New RTSL guide explores how to use nutrient profile models to rank food based on nutritional composition and provide the scientific foundation for healthy and comprehensive nutrition policies.
Resolve to Save Lives at EPI | Lifestyle Scientific Sessions 2025
High blood pressure too often goes unnoticed. Watch the American Heart Association’s interview with Dr. Renu Garg as she details how Resolve to Save Lives works to control this silent killer with universal screening and other scalable strategies.
Trans fat elimination: Maximizing lives saved through policy implementation and enforcement
Once a best-practice trans fat elimination policy is passed and adopted, it must be implemented and enforced. This advocacy document developed by Resolve to Save Lives serves as a guide for the monitoring and enforcement of best practice policies that eliminate industrially produced trans fat from a country’s food supply.
New analysis shows eliminating out-of-pocket costs for blood pressure medication saves lives
Eliminating out-of-pocket costs for anti-hypertensives lowers the risk of heart attacks and strokes and can reduce health care costs.
Dr. Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin joins Resolve to Save Lives’ Board of Directors
Dr. Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin joins Resolve to Save Lives Board of Directors
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
Resolve to Save Lives and The George Institute for Global Health strongly support WHO new recommendation to to replace regular table salt with lower-sodium salt substitutes.
Statement from Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, on U.S. Withdrawal from WHO
The decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization makes Americans – and the world – less safe.
Resolve to Save Lives’ new global guidelines for healthy public food procurement
Setting healthy nutrition standards for food served in schools, public hospitals, childcare facilities and government workplaces is a powerful strategy for saving lives.
RTSL trans fat experts speak out
Trans fat elimination webinar features experts from Resolve to Save Lives and outlines steps to remove this harmful food additive.
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.
Arm Position and Blood Pressure Readings: The ARMS Crossover Randomized Clinical Trial
Faulty blood pressure readings can put lives at risk. A new randomized clinical trial shows that commonly used arm positions (lap or side) result in substantially higher blood pressure readings which can lead to false diagnoses and over-treatment. To measure blood pressures accurately, the arm should be supported at heart level. The authors call for clinical […]
Blood pressure measures done right
Faulty BP readings can put lives at risk. New evidence supports this method for accuracy.
7-1-7: rapid improvement for early disease detection and response
Introductory brief on the 7-1-7 target, its uses, and how it complements existing tools and assessments.
7-1-7 for Accountability, Monitoring and Evaluation
The simplicity of 7-1-7’s timeliness metrics helps monitor performance, evaluate interventions and document progress with full transparency.
Advocacy as easy as 7-1-7
Clear data based on simple metrics can help any decision-maker understand the need for support, funding or policy change for better epidemic preparedness.
Continuous improvement with 7-1-7
By incorporating 7-1-7 into existing workflows, we can make every outbreak an opportunity to improve how we detect and respond to infectious disease threats.
Digital toolkit
Step-by-step guidance and tools to start putting 7-1-7 to work, in one place.
“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 […]
“Surveillance is a public health superpower”
In an essay for the Financial Times, Dr. Tom Frieden explains how disease surveillance helps us foretell health disasters and see trends in diseases and health programs to save lives.
Factsheet for DHIS2 for Hypertension & Diabetes Programs
DHIS2 Tracker is a free, open-source health management data platform developed by DHIS2 and Resolve to Save Lives that program managers can use to monitor large-scale non-communicable disease (NCD) programs. The new version 2.0 integrates hypertension and diabetes care and is optimized for use in busy primary care facilities that manage thousands of patients. DHIS2 […]