We support governments to test and implement proven, preventative drowning prevention interventions, and we work with local communities to create awareness and generate demand for services to achieve sustainable drowning prevention programs.
The Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment Act (MAT Act) was signed into law in the final days of December 2022, eliminating a key barrier to access of a lifesaving medication for the more than 100,000 people dying of overdose per year.
Between 2018 and 2025, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, partnered with the Government of Viet Nam to implement a World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended survival swimming program that fundamentally transformed national child safety and reduced overall child drowning.
Uganda’s government launched Africa’s first-ever National Safe School Zones Guide in May 2025, answering a call from advocates to protect children on their journeys to and from school.
September 30, 2026
When Gretchen Burns Bergman testified in California in 2014 for a bill that would let organizations distribute naloxone, someone asked why she wanted to support drug use.
She was thinking about what a mother might need in her medicine cabinet.
“Mothers are oftentimes the first responder, right?” she told me during Brave Recovery: The Women Impacted. “So why would I not be able to have it in my medicine cabinet?”
That question has stayed with me. Gretchen knew the moment she was trying to prepare for. She also knew that the people writing the rules did not necessarily see it the way she did.
September 29, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 29, 2026)- The National Safety Council (NSC) and the Global Health Advocacy Incubator’s Overdose Prevention Initiative (GHAI) applaud the U.S. Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for giving employers practical guidance on responding to an opioid overdose at work. Released on September 24, “Save a Life Day”, during National Recovery Month, the guidance calls on workplaces to keep opioid overdose reversal medication accessible, prepare workers to use it and call 911 when an overdose occurs.
September 22, 2026
CMS's proposed CY2027 payment rule rewards screening, weakens treatment accountability and opens new questions about AI and sensitive patient information. Here is what GHAI’s Overdose Prevention Initiative’s told Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
