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Akanksha Rai

@akankshakrishna

All things Environment & Public Health | Work @VitalStrat | Past @cleancooking @WHO_Europe | MPH @EuroPH @uni_Copenhagen @sheffielduni | #ViewsOwn

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Launch day is here! Join the Global Alliance to End Statelessness Global Alliance to End Statelessness. The registration of a birth creates a legal identity. When we have strong #CRVS systems, we are better able to prevent statelessness. Join us: statelessnessalliance.org

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We're so excited to share that our video The Data Healing the Lungs of a City, created with BBC StoryWorks and Anatman Pictures, won Silver at the anthemawards 🥈 ! Hear a message from Sumi Mehta from our Environmental Health team below and watch the winning video here ⬇️

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🚨 Grant Opportunity: The Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use is now accepting applications for grants to support tobacco control, combat industry interference, and advance cessation efforts. If you're working to create a smoke-free future, apply for funding by Feb.

🚨 Grant Opportunity: The <a href="/BloombergDotOrg/">Bloomberg Philanthropies</a> Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use is now accepting applications for grants to support tobacco control, combat industry interference, and advance cessation efforts. If you're working to create a smoke-free future, apply for funding by Feb.
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99% of the world breathes air that exceeds WHO pollution limits. We need urgent action: 🔸 cleaner energy 🔸 sustainable transport 🔸 better waste management 🔸 stricter industrial regulations #AirPollution knows no borders and requires a global solution.

99% of the world breathes air that exceeds WHO pollution limits.

We need urgent action:
🔸 cleaner energy
🔸 sustainable transport
🔸 better waste management
🔸 stricter industrial regulations

#AirPollution knows no borders and requires a global solution.
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We celebrate the signing of the cooperation agreement between Vital Strategies, Pure Earth, and Ministerio de Salud. This partnership is a critical step to protect Peruvian children's health from the harmful effects of lead. It will strengthen #PublicHealth and environmental

We celebrate the signing of the cooperation agreement between Vital Strategies, <a href="/PureEarthNow/">Pure Earth</a>, and <a href="/Minsa_Peru/">Ministerio de Salud</a>. 

This partnership is a critical step to protect Peruvian children's health from the harmful effects of lead. It will strengthen #PublicHealth and environmental
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📘📢: Our new report identifies gaps in evidence base that limits cities' & countries' from showing health gains of #ClimateActions targeting combustion source #AirPollution. It highlights actionable research areas to drive progress by 2030 Read & Share: vitalstrat.org/41YcnTG

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Cooperation, partnerships, and mutual learning are at the heart of this Summit- Prof. Axel Pries, President of World Health Summit #HealthForAll #WHSNewDelhi2025

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450+ speakers | 90 sessions | 4500+ participants | 54+ countries- #WHSNewDelhi2025 brings the #GlobalHealth community together for collective action and impact #HealthForAll World Health Summit

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#KickBigSodaOutofSport is a finalist at the @ShortyAwards in the Social Good Campaign category! 🎉👏 VOTE for Kick Big Soda Out of Sport for the Audience Honor every day until April 30th & spread the word: bit.ly/KBSO-Shorty-Aw… #ShortyAwards

#KickBigSodaOutofSport is a finalist at the @ShortyAwards in the Social Good Campaign category! 🎉👏 
 
VOTE for Kick Big Soda Out of Sport for the Audience Honor every day until April 30th &amp; spread the word: bit.ly/KBSO-Shorty-Aw…  
#ShortyAwards
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Health is not just a human right, it’s an economic imperative. Today at the World Health Summit Regional Meeting in New Delhi, we hosted the session “Outcomes Matter: Health Financing for Impact”, a timely conversation on how to fund better health outcomes for all. The discussion

Health is not just a human right, it’s an economic imperative.
 
Today at the <a href="/WorldHealthSmt/">World Health Summit</a> Regional Meeting in New Delhi, we hosted the session “Outcomes Matter: Health Financing for Impact”, a timely conversation on how to fund better health outcomes for all.
 
The discussion
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"I have a tool that can generate revenues, and that tool is health taxes" - Mary-Ann Etiebet, President and CEO, Vital Strategies, talking about the ways of how health advocates can knock on the doors of finance ministers. "Health taxes are not one and done, you need to keep the

"I have a tool that can generate revenues, and that tool is health taxes" - Mary-Ann Etiebet, President and CEO, <a href="/VitalStrat/">Vital Strategies</a>, talking about the ways of how health advocates can knock on the doors of finance ministers.
"Health taxes are not one and done, you need to keep the
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Last week, we joined researchers, implementers, policymakers, and funders in Washington DC for the first annual Research Conference on Global Lead Exposure, hosted by Center for Global Development. Data and research is driving progress in this critical but often overlooked area of public health. The

Last week, we joined researchers, implementers, policymakers, and funders in Washington DC for the first annual Research Conference on Global Lead Exposure, hosted by <a href="/CGDev/">Center for Global Development</a>. Data and research is driving progress in this critical but often overlooked area of public health.
 
The