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August 9, 2023
Breaking the Cycle of Unhealthy Eating: Rio de Janeiro Newest Brazilian City to Ban Ultra-Processed Products in Schools
Earlier this year, students, families and health advocates celebrated a major legislative victory in Niterói, Brazil, with the passage of Law No. 3766/2023, wh…
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June 27, 2023
From Tobacco to Ultra-Processed Products: Uncovering the Manipulative Tactics of Unhealthy Industries on World No Tobacco Day
How can public health advocates identify shared tactics by the tobacco and ultra-processed food industries that undermine public health? That was the topic of …
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April 17, 2023
Breaking the Cycle of Unhealthy Eating: Niterói's Victory in Banning Ultra-Processed Products in Schools
Earlier this year, students, families, and health advocates celebrated a major legislative victory in Niterói, Brazil, with the passage of Law No. 3766/2023,…
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November 8, 2022
Brazil Implements Front-of-Package Warning Labels
In 2001, Brazil was one of the first countries in the world to consider mandatory nutrition labeling. Nutrition labels provide information that can help consum…
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July 13, 2022
Brazilian Courts Protect Vulnerable Children and Youth in Decision Against Nestlé Brazil
A new ruling from the Justice of Sao Paulo, Brazil provides an important protection for child health. The decision comes in response to a lawsuit filed by th…
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May 17, 2022
Global Webinar Series: Coalition Building
On April 20, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) launched a new webinar series for partners, entitled the Global Webinar Series on Advocacy. This platf…
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November 12, 2021
The Role of Advocacy in Addressing Health Inequities
The COVID-19 pandemic has both exposed and exacerbated inequities in public health. Locally-led advocacy, by individuals and communities affected by the polici…
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October 7, 2021
New Case Study: Protecting Heart Health in Brazil
Our new case study “Protecting Heart Health in Brazil” illustrates how the Global Health Advocacy Incubator successfully partnered with civil society organizat…
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August 23, 2021
Lessons Learned from Researchers and Advocates on Passing and Implementing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes
Global public health advocates and countries are looking for ways to help address and fight the rising non-communicable disease (NCD) and obesity rates around …
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May 26, 2021
Public Health Advocacy After the Pandemic
This week, we hosted a conversation about how advocates can advance effective public health policies in a world disrupted by COVID-19—disruptions that undersco…
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May 17, 2021
GHAI to Host Advocacy Discussion Alongside WHA74
The 74th World Health Assembly (WHA) starts a week from today. It will be the second WHA to be held virtually, a sobering reminder of the real-world impact of …
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May 5, 2021
Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court Rules That Prohibiting Advertising in Schools is Constitutional
On March 25, 2021, the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) declared that a Bahia state law that banned advertisements within school premises is constitutiona…
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April 19, 2021
The Need to Reduce Ultra-Processed Food Consumption Worldwide
Leading food and nutrition researchers from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health, University of Chile, S…
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March 29, 2021
Advocate Spotlight: Vanessa Mello Rodrigues
Vanessa recently joined the Global Health Advocacy Incubator’s (GHAI) Food Policy Program as the Brazil in-country coordinator. You started only a few weeks ag…
December 28, 2020
GHAI Year in Review: Highlights from 2020
This has been a year of challenges and accomplishments. The coronavirus pandemic exposed longstanding health systems gaps and injustices and created additional…
Facing Two Pandemics
November 17, 2020
New Report Reveals How Big Companies Exploited COVID-19 to Market Unhealthy Products
On November 17, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) released the report “Facing Two Pandemics: How Big Food Undermined Public Health in the Era of COVI…
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February 25, 2020
How to build strong coalitions for policy change: This month in Devex
Aliança pela Alimentação Adequada e Saudável (Alliance for Adequate and Healthy Food) in Brazil Coalition-building is an essential part of advocacy. As two of…
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December 23, 2019
Year in Review: 10 Advocacy Stories from 2019
Each year, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator works with local partners across the globe to advocate for policies that improve health and save lives. In 2019…
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December 18, 2019
Brazil Approves Trans Fat Regulation
Brazil is on a path to eliminating industrially produced trans fats from its food supply ahead of the World Health Organization’s recommended 2023 deadline. Th…
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July 29, 2019
Advocate Spotlight: Mariana de Araujo Ferraz
Mariana de Araujo Ferraz is the Brazil Country Coordinator for the Global Health Advocacy Incubator’s Obesity Prevention Program. What does your job entail, an…
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July 15, 2019
GHAI Equips Partners with Tools at Legal Workshop
At the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI), legal analysis is central to our advocacy. The legislation we and our partners support (and often draft) must b…
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May 29, 2019
Filled Seats and A Call to Action: Marion Nestle in Brazil
This essay was originally published in the newsletter of O Joio e o Trigo, an investigative journalism project in Brazil. Some minor edits were made for t…
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March 19, 2019
Brazil Advocates Stage "Real-Food Banquet" Demonstration
On his first day in office, newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro issued a Provisional Measure to eliminate the Brazilian National Council of Food and Nutriti…

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