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September 22, 2023
Experts Emphasize the Need for Advocacy to Impact Health Disparities
Global health leaders and experts joined the Global Health Advocacy Incubator alongside the 78th United Nations General Assembly this week for a discussion o…
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May 31, 2023
Experts at World Health Assembly Share Best Practices for Using Health Taxes to Prevent NCDs
Alongside this year’s World Health Assembly and in collaboration with the World Health Organization, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator convened a group of g…
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May 30, 2023
Public Officials and Civil Society at World Health Assembly Emphasize the Importance of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Health
Alongside this year’s World Health Assembly and in partnership with the People's Republic of Bangladesh and Republic of Maldives, the Global Health Advocacy In…
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May 19, 2023
Advocacy for Domestic Resource Mobilization for Health
Public health success requires appropriate budgets that reflect countries’ own political priorities, such as funding a national child drowning prevention initi…
Health Taxes
May 18, 2023
Using the Power of Health Taxes to Prevent Non-Communicable Diseases
More than eight million people die each year from smoking and approximately 184,000 deaths per year can be attributed to sugary drink consumption worldwide. St…
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October 17, 2022
GHAI and CTFK and Partners Host First Joint Latin America Legal Workshop in Mexico on Food Policy and Tobacco Control
Last month, the Latin American legal teams from the Global Health Advocacy Incubator’s (GHAI) Food Policy program and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK)…
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October 10, 2022
Using UCSF’s Food Industry Documents Archive to Support Food Policy Advocacy
The Global Health Advocacy Incubator held a webinar in collaboration with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)’s Industry Documents Library (ID…
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October 5, 2022
The Future of Global Health Advocacy
Alongside the UN General Assembly, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) convened a group of global health experts to discuss why strong policies and pub…
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October 3, 2022
Advocacy in Action: Advocating for Women Facing Gender-Based Violence
Global Health Advocacy Incubator’s (GHAI) latest episode of the Advocacy in Action series on Twitter Spaces gathered two leaders in gender equity to discuss th…
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August 24, 2022
Advocacy In Action: Celebrating Youth Advocates
In commemoration of International Youth Day, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator’s (GHAI) latest episode of Advocacy in Action celebrated youth advocates arou…
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August 4, 2022
World Drowning Prevention Day Celebrations
Every year, an estimated 236,000 people drown, making drowning a major public health issue worldwide. Drowning is one of the leading causes of death globally …
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July 25, 2022
SEND Ghana Celebrates Media Advocacy Excellence Towards Epidemic Preparedness Financing
SEND Ghana, in partnership with the Global Health Advocacy Incubator’s (GHAI) Prevent Epidemics program, held a journalism award contest to recognize quality r…
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July 18, 2022
Budget Advocacy for Epidemic Preparedness - Lessons from Nigeria Showcased at Global Health Security Conference 2022
At the Global Health Security Conference in Singapore, June 28 – July 1, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator’s (GHAI) Prevent Epidemics Nigeria Country…
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July 11, 2022
Advancing Marketing Restrictions on Ultra Processed Food and Beverages
Evidence shows that the global population, especially children and adolescents, are highly exposed to marketing tactics by the ultra-processed food and beverag…
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June 16, 2022
Fiscal Policies for Health Webinar
On May 24, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator hosted our most recent webinar: Fiscal Policies for Health. GHAI’s Senior Vice President Lucy Martinez Sullivan…
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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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May 13, 2022
Advocacy in Action: How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Advocates for epidemic prevention and response face a common obstacle: a lack of political will to allocate government funds for health systems strengthening. …
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April 14, 2022
Twitter Spaces: A Conversation Celebrating Women Advocates
Around the world, women advocates are leading the charge to advance progress towards a wide array of public health issues. From safer roads to global health eq…
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February 7, 2022
The Power of Advocacy: A Conversation with Lucy Martinez Sullivan
Last week, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) hosted the first episode of Advocacy in Action— our newest series of conversations taking listeners behi…
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November 17, 2021
BEHIND THE LABELS: Big Food’s War on Healthy Food Policies
On November 16, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator’s (GHAI) Food Policy program released a new report titled “Behind the Labels: Big Food’s War on Healthy Fo…
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November 11, 2021
Watch Now: The Global Health Advocacy Incubator Story
The Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) has helped civil society organizations around the world achieve health policy victories covering three billion peop…
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November 4, 2021
GHAI to Co-Host a UNESCAP Side Event Featuring the CRVS Legal Review
On November 10 (Eastern Standard Time) & 11 (Bangkok time), Associate Director and Legal Adviser of the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) program …
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October 27, 2021
The Global Health Advocacy Incubator Story
Locally-led advocacy, building on global best practice, is the key to integrated, effective, equitable, sustainable and accountable health systems—and for achi…
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October 1, 2021
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Honors Outstanding Youth Advocates in Virtual Gala
On September 29th, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids hosted its annual Youth Advocates of the Year Awards. The virtual gala honored young advocates in the fig…
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September 23, 2021
Epidemic Preparedness Budget Advocacy Framework Unveiled at UNGA Side Event
The Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) has unveiled a framework to help political and civil society leaders build support for sustainable investments in e…
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September 20, 2021
Youth Voices and Engagement are Key to Successful Advocacy Campaigns Around the World
Youth advocates from the Caribbean, South Africa, Indonesia and the United States came together on our recent webinar, “Rising in their power: A showcase of yo…
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September 16, 2021
Budget Advocacy Framework Launches Wednesday
Next week, we’ll be launching a new advocacy framework to help local and national civil society organizations and policymakers build public and political suppo…
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July 7, 2021
Bangladesh Holds National Dialogue on Drowning Prevention
Each year, drowning kills more than 12,000 children under five in Bangladesh. Last month, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) and grantee Campaign for…
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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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April 14, 2021
The Importance of Policy Advocacy — GHAI at the World Conference on Injury Prevention
By Mena El-Turky In the months before the pandemic, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator’s (GHAI) road safety team began preparing for the 14th World Conferenc…
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February 22, 2021
Virtual Conference – Facing COVID-19: How Big Food and Big Tobacco Undermined Public Health
On March 2, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) will host a follow-up webinar on its November report, “Facing Two Pandemics: How Big Food Undermined Pu…
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December 21, 2020
Journalists’ workshop highlights urgency of child drowning prevention in Bangladesh
Journalists play a vital role in highlighting important issues and holding leaders accountable. Unfortunately, with all the competing priorities they need to c…
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November 13, 2020
How Big Food Undermined Public Health in the Era of COVID-19: Webinar and tweet chat
Join us over the next week as we release a new report about corporate tactics to influence healthy food policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Report launch: N…
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September 24, 2020
GHAI Hosts Virtual Event During UNGA on Advocacy for Country Ownership
During the 75th U.N. General Assembly, GHAI convened representatives from across government, civil society and philanthropy to discuss the journey to health pr…
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April 28, 2020
Media advocacy in India: From journalism workshops to political commitments
Media can play a critical role in strengthening health systems. Over the past year, the Global Health Advocator helped partners in India strengthen media voice…
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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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June 21, 2019
GHAI Partnership Event
The Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) was launched by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK) in 2014.  This week, we introduced our work to the g…
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April 10, 2019
The Long-Term Impact of a Journalism Training
Media advocacy is one of the most effective ways to elevate public health issues and create an environment where policy change is possible. In 2017, the Global…
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February 5, 2019
Latin American Public Health Advocates Convene for Media Advocacy Workshop
In October 2018, 24 communications staff from 17 civil society organizations in Latin America participated in a media advocacy workshop organized by the Global…
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January 18, 2019
How to Use Online Advocacy to Drive Change
Technical experts from the Global Health Advocacy Incubator’s digital training team developed a customized online course in digital media advocacy to lift the …

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