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August 11, 2023
FUNDING ALERT! Applications for the Advocacy Fund Open on August 14
The Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) will launch its 2023 Open Call for its Healthy Food Policy Advocacy Fund on Monday, August 14. Applications will be…
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February 28, 2023
Seeking Proposals for Advocacy for Immunization & Primary Health Care Financing
The Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) is seeking proposals for our new project, Civil Society Organization (CSO) Advocacy for Immunization & Primary Heal…
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February 2, 2023
What We are Excited About This Year
Effective policies are the foundation of public health, and advocacy can ensure those policies are evidence-based, tailored to a local context and sustained …
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December 22, 2022
Prince Michael International Road Safety Award Honors La Liga Contra La Violencia Vial and La Coalición de Movilidad Segura
For over 30 years the Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards has recognized those who have improved road safety worldwide. Each year the most outstand…
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December 20, 2022
GHAI Year in Review: Highlights from 2022
The Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) is proud to support local partners, in more than 40 countries, advocating for policy change on multiple critical pu…
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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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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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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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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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April 11, 2022
Nigeria’s Kano State Increases Investments in Epidemic Preparedness
At the end of December 2021, Kano, a state in Nigeria, significantly increased funding for epidemic preparedness and response (EPR). On December 22, 2021, the …
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March 9, 2022
Data for Health Program Expands into Budget Advocacy and Sustainability
The Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) is excited to announce that its Data for Health program has added a new focus area that will further support global…
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February 9, 2022
GHAI's New CRVSID Toolkit Chapter Focuses on the Inclusion of Women and Children
GHAI is excited to announce the publication of another new chapter to be added to our Civil Registration, Vital Statistics, and ID Management (CRVSID) Legal …
Power of advocacy
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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January 23, 2022
What We Are Excited About in 2022
By Lucy Martinez Sullivan Despite the continuing toll of COVID-19 across the globe, this new year holds promise for public health progress. The events of the …
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December 23, 2021
Year in Review
As 2021 come to a close, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) reflects on the major milestones and accomplishments of our programs, partners and local o…
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December 20, 2021
GHAI Showcases Policy Wins
Over the past eight years, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) has helped civil society organizations achieve 44 health policy victories covering three…
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December 9, 2021
Elevating Voices of Victims & Survivors — and Advancing Policy Change
Road crash victims & survivors are the heart of policy advocacy. At the heart of any advocacy campaign is a voice with a story. Voices give context, humani…
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December 8, 2021
WHO Publishes Progress Report on Trans Fat Elimination
The World Health Organization (WHO) published a report that showcases remarkable progress in the push to eliminate industrially produced trans fat from the glo…
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November 22, 2021
Legal Issues in the Design and Implementation of Public Health Measures
By: Kyra Berasi Strong and evidence-based measures, such as laws and regulations, play a critical role in addressing pressing public health issues. Governments…
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November 17, 2021
Corporate Capture and the Key Role of Civil Society Organizations
By Ana María Suarez Franco, FIAN International Affected communities, social movements and human rights organizations have been denouncing corporate capture exp…
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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 15, 2021
World Day of Remembrance: 3 Things to Watch
Each November, advocates around the world commemorate lives lost and drastically changed by road crashes on World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims o…
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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 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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September 13, 2021
Locally Led Advocacy: Opportunities, Challenges and What We’ve Learned Along the Way
The Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) recently hosted its inaugural Twitter Spaces conversation with an exploration of “locally led advocacy” — what it m…
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July 26, 2021
The Public Health Consequences of Child Marriage
Many don’t immediately associate negative health outcomes with child marriage. They instead think of all the other horrible consequences that flow from forcing…
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July 13, 2021
Progress in Recognition of the Rights of Children and Adolescents to be Protected from the Marketing of Unhealthy Products
During COVID-19, Internet access became crucial for everyday life – people around the world needed it to access health information and other essential service…
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June 10, 2021
In The Fight for Public Health
This year, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) is joining the 25th anniversary celebration of our parent organization, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free K…
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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 24, 2021
The Importance of Civil Registration in the Time of COVID-19
As of early May 2021, a shocking 3,250,382 people worldwide had lost their lives COVID-19, a number that continues to steadily increase with every passing da…
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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 10, 2021
Three Ways to Advocate During Road Safety Week
May 17 marks the start of Global Road Safety Week. This year’s biennial week of action kicks off the second U.N. Decade of Action on Road Safety — a 10-year wi…
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April 12, 2021
GHAI Adds a New Stillbirth Reporting Chapter to CRVSID Toolkit
GHAI is excited to announce the addition of a new chapter focused on Stillbirth Reporting to our Legal and Regulatory Review Toolkit on CRVSID. The CRVSID Tool…
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April 6, 2021
How to Use Messaging Apps for Digital Advocacy
By Corina Alvarez Across the globe, messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger have emerged as an effective way to amplify advocacy efforts by reach…
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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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February 11, 2021
Engaging Influencers in Global Health Advocacy
By Bernice Morquette Media advocacy is an important part of successful public health advocacy campaigns. Media can be used to raise awareness about public hea…
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February 2, 2021
Program Profile: Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
Everyone has the right to be recognized as a person under the law and to have a legal identity. Systems exist to gather critical data on a country’s population…
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…
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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 28, 2020
Why We Advocate for Sustainability
At the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, we recognize that lifesaving programs and policies are critical—but not enough. Locally-led advocacy that plans for su…
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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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September 1, 2020
New Healthy Food Policy Legal Defense Fund to Support Countries Worldwide
The Bloomberg Philanthropies Food Policy Program launched the Healthy Food Policy Legal Defense Fund (LDF) this week to help governments defend strong, evidenc…
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July 28, 2020
Why We Advocate
Why do we advocate? Improving public health laws and policies benefits entire populations. Policies shape the environments where people live, making it easie…
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June 22, 2020
GHAI Releases New Digital Tools for Advocacy Campaign Planning
The Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) is pleased to share a new set of digital tools to help users plan and analyze their advocacy campaigns. In our coll…
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June 17, 2020
Healthy food policies and COVID-19
Why we need to take communicable and non-communicable diseases out of their silos to create a more resilient world By Kyra Berasi This essay appeared originall…
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May 20, 2020
Lessons from COVID-19 at WHA 73
The opening of WHA 72 in 2019 This week, the beginning of the 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA) was held digitally for the first time. WHA takes place every yea…
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April 21, 2020
GHAI Launches Healthy Food Policy Advocacy Fund
Healthy food policy advocates in Brazil The Global Health Advocacy Incubator is pleased to invite concept note submissions for the new Healthy Food Policy A…
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April 1, 2020
How we’re responding to COVID-19, Part Two: Adapting
Our partner Nigerian Health Watch shares information about protecting oneself from the novel coronavirus. Earlier this week, we wrote about how we’re res…
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March 30, 2020
From our programs to our people: How we’re responding to COVID-19
Messaging workshop in Nigeria, 2019 The coronavirus pandemic is exposing longstanding health systems gaps and creating additional risks for people who were alr…
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March 10, 2020
Why Advocacy Needs More Women Leaders
Angela Bruce-Raeburn, Regional Advocacy Director, Africa International Women’s Day was this week, and we joined with Women in Global Health on Twitter to ce…
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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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October 31, 2019
Our Approach to Advocacy
Our approach to advocacy begins with our local partners.  We assess and strengthen their advocacy capacity and provide ongoing technical assistance. Because we…
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September 23, 2019
Advocacy for Universal Health Coverage, In Countries and at the United Nations
Heads of state from around the world are in New York today to pledge to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030.  UHC means leaving no one behind: qual…
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June 18, 2019
NCD Prevention at the World Health Assembly: Are We Speaking the Same Language?
Photo: The author speaks at a World Health Assembly side event. This essay was written by Kathy Shats, Associate Legal Director at the Global Health Advocac…
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May 2, 2019
Tips from the Field: From Policy Adoption to Implementation
Maternal and Reproductive Health advocates discuss the MRH budget with Ministers of Parliament in Tanzania Advocating for policy change can be a long and wind…
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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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January 16, 2019
Advocates Around the World Call for Strong Road Safety Laws
On Nov. 18, the road safety community marked World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims. Coalitions working to advance road safety legislation around th…

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