Timeline
Progress in Viet Nam
Viet Nam committed to improve blood pressure control rates and reduce salt intake during a launch workshop in Ha Noi on July 17. The Ministry of Health, WHO and our team will work together to select hypertension treatment protocols and establish ways to evaluate their impact. Read more...
"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.
Hypertension work in China
Dr. Marc Jaffe traveled to China to meet with partners at the World Bank and others, and to advance the hypertension prevention work. In this photo Dr. Jaffe is having his blood pressure measured by Professor Liu Lisheng of the Beijing Lisheng Health Foundation.
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.
NAPHS in Nigeria
Dr. Chris Lee traveled to Nigeria to support the government's development of their National Action Plan for Health Security.
