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World Climate Investment Summit returns on 26 June 2025 at the London Stock Exchange. Connect with top investors, policymakers, and leaders driving climate finance. Explore opportunities in clean energy, decarbonisation, and nature-based solutions while shaping the COP30 agenda.
Mexico's taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages and junk food are expected to substantially reduce consumption and help address the nation's diabetes crisis. Yet Prof. @rperezescamilla says that taxes alone are insufficient. Learn more ⬇️ thelancet.com/journals/landi…
📢 Exciting job alert! 📢 We're hiring a Senior Finance Manager to oversee all aspects of the charity's finances & play a critical role in delivery impact. More info & how to apply: ➡️ bit.ly/3CoZaoy #Jobalert #hiring #charityjobs
Health taxes can be a powerful tool to reduce harmful product consumption, improve health outcomes, and generate revenue. Let's talk about it! 👉 Register here: vitalstrat.org/44Qgj8U Join us for a virtual briefing to explore insights and evidence-based policy recommendations…
How baby formula marketing could be risking infant health - and mislead parents inews.co.uk/news/baby-form…
Soda taxes = smart policy, not punishment. Less sugar = ✅ Fewer preventable deaths ✅ Lower health costs ✅ More money for schools, clinics & care It’s time to #Tax4Health & invest in our future 👉bit.ly/40A3T3N
The @WHO is pushing countries to raise the prices of 🥤 sugary drinks, alcohol 🍷 and tobacco 🚬 by 50% over the next 10 years through #taxation, its strongest backing yet for taxes to help tackle chronic public That move would help cut consumption of the products, which…
From professional sports to local youth leagues, Big Soda is everywhere 🌍. Their sponsorships pressure athletes —even global icons— into tacitly endorsing unhealthy products, which are marketed to kids. Let’s show them the red card 🚫 Join the movement:…
🚨New Paper. “Favoring those who contributed to their political campaigns”: an analysis of the incentives received by the food industry in Colombia in the period of 2018—2020 @AlejaNinoDuque @ChristianPTorre @FIANColombia pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12…
🚨 New report: Big Soda uses major sporting events like the Olympics to strengthen its brand image and align its harmful products with athleticism & global unity. @VitalStrat analyzed how one of these partnerships was portrayed in the media during the 2024 Paris Olympics &…
Big Soda uses FIFA events ⚽️ to sell unhealthy products and cover up their environmental harms. Our message to Big Soda: get out of our game. Let’s #KickBigSodaOutOfSport. Join the movement: kickbigsodaout.org
After Brazil, Colombia, Senegal & India, Ecuador becomes the 5th country with a validated 2–3 min Nova24h screener—enabling Nova UPF score calculation, one of four WHO/FAO/UNICEF-recommended metrics to monitor healthy diets globally. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
#ICYMI 📢 PMNCH Comms Toolkit launched! 🧰 Equip yourself with data-driven messages, visual assets & social media strategies to raise awareness on preventable maternal, newborn & child deaths. 💡 A powerful resource for advocates, communicators & changemakers. Access the…
Back-of-pack nutrition information are hard to read. Small print. Complicated terms. Most people can’t understand them, or don’t even look. That’s why countries like Chile and Brazil introduced front-of-pack warning labels. Clear, bold, visual warnings. Kenya needs this too.…
“The NCD investment case was very important for us. In 2019, we did not have evidence-based data on NCD burden – it was very difficult to convince the deputy minister of finance to invest in this. After the first NCD investment case the ministry of finances changed their view on…
Join us to this webinar “Sustainable, resilient food systems supporting health”. @hendry_miranda, @Cal_Bradford98 & @dacruz_gabriela will talk about international experiences like Brazil, and England. Are u member of @WPHNA? wphna.org/membership Membership | WPHNA

Today is #WorldBicycleDay! 🚵♀️🚴♂️🚴♀️🚵♂️ Ride your bicycle to improve both the planet's and your own health! Simple, affordable, and efficient sustainable transport, cycling supports our health, our planet and our lives. Show us your photo in bicycle 👇🏽

Today’s bicycle day, check this recommendation by @WHO 👇🏽 It’s time to demand safer streets that put the health & safety of pedestrians and cyclists first 👉bit.ly/4jPzXsa
Join us to this webinar “Sustainable, resilient food systems supporting health”. @hendry_miranda, @Cal_Bradford98 & @dacruz_gabriela will conduct this interesting topic.
Save the Date, our colleagues from @IncubatorGHAI will launch a new legal advocacy action guide. Register 👇🏽
Join us for the launch of our new Legal Advocacy Action Guide on June 4. Because legal tools = public health power. Register today: advocacyincubator.org/news/2025-05-2…