Resolve to Save Lives

Three disease outbreaks. Three countries. Three epidemics prevented.

Last year El Salvador, Gabon and Thailand contained outbreaks of malaria, mpox and cholera before they spiraled into epidemics. In a new video, we hear from the health care workers involved about how they acted quickly to stop diseases from spreading using the 7-1-7 target for outbreak detection and response and saved lives.

You can read the full stories in our new Epidemics That Didn’t Happen report, launched today at #WHA79: etdh.resolvetosavelives.org/2026/

Calling all technical and policy experts on lead poisoning: Join our remaining PREVENT Technical Package feedback sessions!

We’re supporting @WHO to create a technical package on lead poisoning prevention that will translate existing evidence into a practical, prioritized framework for action. We invite interested stakeholders to join webinars on each module and provide feedback on the package’s development.

Register for our upcoming sessions:

▪November 3: Lead-related Industries: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
▪November 12: Consumer Products: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Stroke is one of the world’s leading killers, but it doesn’t have to be. Prevention works.

This World Stroke Day, we’re calling attention to two evidence-based solutions that can lower stroke risk: controlling high blood pressure and reducing excess sodium consumption. We work with governments and other partners to close the gap between these proven solutions and the people who need them.

“Health collaboration is a win-win. The more one country learns and has progress, the healthier the world is as a whole, and the greater the understanding of the pathways to progress.”

This week, our president and CEO @DrTomFrieden delivered remarks at Tsinghua University’s 6th World Health Forum in Beijing, China. He emphasized that healthy longevity is not the result of a single breakthrough, but rather the cumulative effect of a set of proven, scalable actions implemented consistently over time.

At Resolve to Save Lives, we work with partners in more than 60 countries to co-create and scale solutions to the world’s deadliest health threats and help people live longer, healthier lives.

Every year, 5 million deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries among people who reached a primary health care system but weren’t provided the care they needed.

In a new article in @TheLancetPH, @DrTomFrieden, Dr. Stacey Mearns and Amanda McClelland offer an approach to close the gap between life-saving health interventions and the care that health systems deliver. They call for primary health care to be prioritized, proactive and accountable—organized around shared outcomes and frontline actions that can help systems deliver more effective care with the resources available to them.

Read the article here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…