ICEID conference in Atlanta
The world’s leading infectious disease experts and country health officials gathered in Atlanta for the ICEID conference. Attendants were able to learn more about their country’s preparedness for the next epidemic through custom demos of PreventEpidemics.org
Dr Marc Jaffe co-authored an article in JAMA
Dr. Marc Jaffe co-authored an editorial for the Journal of the American Medical Association, stressing the importance of fixed-dose combination therapy for the control of blood pressure on a global scale.
“Simple” app piloted in Punjab
The Resolve to Save Lives tech team ran our first real-world pilot of the Simple Android application, which aims to help healthcare workers to longitudinally track their hypertensive patients.
PreventEpidemics.org
We launched PreventEpidemics.org, an interactive website which spotlights gaps in epidemic preparedness and highlights actions that countries, donors, activists and organizations can take to fill them.
2018 World Health Assembly
At the 2018 World Health Assembly, Dr. Tom Frieden participated in a discussion on “Reducing Sugar, Salt and Fat to Prevent NCDs.”
Make the world trans fat free by 2023
The Lancet published “REPLACE a roadmap to make the world trans fat free by 2023” written by Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Dr. Tom Frieden
REPLACE launched
The World Health Organization announced REPLACE, a ground-breaking initiative developed in partnership with Resolve to Save Lives, which aims to eliminate trans fats from the global food supply by 2023. Read about it in The New York Times, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, or Vox.