Global Health Advocacy Incubator

June 5, 2023

Mexican Coalition for Road Safety Plans Work Ahead After Achieving Major Milestone

Advocates and champions achieved a major road safety milestone in Mexico with the passage of the General Law on Mobility and Road Safety (GLMRS). This law crea…

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…

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)…

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…

May 31, 2022

Mexico’s New Mobility and Road Safety Law Is Key to Saving Lives

After more than eight years of rigorous advocacy work in support of stronger road safety policies, the General Mobility and Road Safety bill #LeyMovilidadSeg…

January 10, 2022

Road Safety Advocacy Milestones of 2021

As a new year begins, the Global Health Advocacy (GHAI) team is taking time to reflect on the important work happening worldwide to make people safer on the ro…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

October 29, 2020

A win for road safety — and society — in Mexico

Advocates support the Constitutional Amendment on the Senate floor Every morning, when each one of us leaves our homes and families, we wish to return safe and…

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…

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…

February 18, 2020

Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety Expands Commitment to Saving Lives

Road safety advocates in India A new commitment from Bloomberg Philanthropies (BP) will allow the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) to expand its lifesa…

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…

July 8, 2019

Advocate Spotlight: Juan Carballo and Gianella Severini

Juan Carballo (JC) and Gianella Severini (GS) are legal advisors for the Global Health Advocacy Incubator’s (GHAI’s) Obesity Prevention Program, with a focus o…

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