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Epidemic-Ready Primary Health Care (ERPHC) framework and technical package

Resolve to Save Lives
May 1, 2025
Capacities, core activities and outcomes for implementing Epidemic-Ready Primary Health Care (ERPHC).
Technical guidance
Screenshot of web page: What a 7-1-7 bottleneck analysis across 18 countries taught us – and how you can do your own analysis to inform your country priorities

Actionable 7‑1‑7 bottleneck insights: Resources for rapid outbreak investigation

7-1-7 Alliance
May 1, 2025
Solutions to a common 7-1-7 bottleneck: lack of available resources to initiate outbreak response.
Brief Case studies
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Policy brief: Front-of-package warning labels give consumers the freedom to choose healthy

Global Health Advocacy Incubator & Resolve to Save Lives
April 30, 2025
Use this brief to learn how to adopt FOPL polices and implement nutrient profile models – the foundation for FOPLs that work.
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9 million lives saved and counting

Resolve to Save Lives
April 21, 2025
Heart health partnerships between 2018 and 2023 will result in 9 million fewer deaths worldwide. This report details how.
Advocacy and communications
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Recommendations: Strengthening country architecture for epidemic preparedness

Resolve to Save Lives
April 10, 2025
Five recommendations for strengthening health security at the country level—developed and refined hand-in-hand with governments and partners.
Technical guidance
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The Healthy Hearts program to improve primary care for hypertension

BMC Primary Care
March 22, 2025
The Healthy Hearts Programme Philippines found that centralized drug procurement could reduce costs and improve hypertension care nationwide, supporting stronger and more equitable primary health care
Journal articles
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A research agenda for urban health security

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
March 16, 2025
We outline ten key themes for strengthening health security in urban environments, allowing cities to better prevent, detect, respond to and recover from health threats.
Technical guidance Advocacy and communications
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Factors associated with hypertension care follow-up in the Ethiopia HEARTS program

February 25, 2025
Patient retention rose from 52% to 76% and blood pressure control increased to 57%.
Journal articles
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Fourth time a charm?—How to make the UN high-level meeting on noncommunicable diseases effective

Resolve to Save Lives
February 21, 2025
Dr. Tom Frieden and colleagues outline the interventions governments can adopt now to save lives from NCDs.
Advocacy and communications
WHO HEARTS factsheet

Managing cardiovascular disease with WHO HEARTS

Resolve to Save Lives
February 14, 2025
A high-level overview of WHO’s HEARTS technical package for controlling high blood pressure and managing cardiovascular disease.
Advocacy and communications
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Improving follow-up visits among individuals with hypertension: Quality Improvement project in the District Hospital, Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, 2021–2022

February 12, 2025
Interventions identified by India Hypertension Control Initiative’s quality improvement program successfully increased monthly follow-up visits and decreased missed health visits.
Journal articles
Universal hypertension management protocols from Resolve to Save Lives

Standard clinical protocols for managing hypertension

Resolve to Save Lives
February 11, 2025
Adapt these universal, evidence-based protocols for treating high blood pressure to your country’s local context.
Clinic resources
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Webinar: using data on packaged food to drive policy change and save lives

Resolve to Save Lives
February 11, 2025
Global nutrition experts discuss how data on packaged food contents can support policy change and create healthier food environments.
Advocacy and communications
Development of a Subnational Health Security Capacities Assessment Tool: Lessons From Nigeria and Implications for the Implementation of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response Strategy

Development of a Subnational Health Security Capacities Assessment Tool: Lessons From Nigeria and Implications for the Implementation of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response Strategy

Health Security
February 6, 2025
How can health security capacities be measured at the subnational level? This tool includes 14 technical areas and 35 indicators to assess capacities in federated systems.
Technical guidance
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Unlocking health equity through free blood pressure medications

Resolve to Save Lives
January 31, 2025
New study on the impacts of providing free blood pressure medications.
Journal articles
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
January 29, 2025
WHO’s recommendation to use low-sodium salt, why it matters, and what it means for countries 
Advocacy and communications
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Use of lower-sodium salt substitutes: WHO guideline

January 27, 2025
WHO recommends that adults replace regular salt with low-sodium salt
Technical guidance
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
January 21, 2025
User guide that decisionmakers, researchers, and advocates can reference while using RTSL’s Global Nutrition Database for Packaged Foods.
Tools and toolkits
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Front-of-package labelling: Empowering consumers and promoting healthy diets

University of North Carolina
January 1, 2025
A fact sheet presenting evidence and progress of food labelling policies globally
Advocacy and communications
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Development and Implementation of a Public Health Event Management System, Nigeria, 2018–2024

Emerging Infectious Diseases
January 1, 2025
We explore how the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC)’s event management system, SITAware, supported the agency with the management of 300 incidents in 2022.
Technical guidance
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