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The Partnership for Healthy Cities presents news, stories, case studies and accomplishments from cities in its global network, whose leaders have taken on the role of urban health champions.
Source: World Health Organization
Bangkok's Bamrung Mueang neighborhood is making streets safer for pedestrians.
Source: World Health Organization
Source: World Health Organization
Source: World Health Organization
Read about more about urban centers preventing disease and injury through public health policy change at the local level.
Code Blue: The Partnership for Healthy Cities is working with Kuala Lumpur to explore a ban on display of cigarettes and tobacco products.
Inside Freetown, Sierra Leone's markets, a new healthy food strategy is addressing rising rates of hypertension and other noncommunicable diseases.
Devex: Bloomberg Philanthropies, Vital Strategies, and the World Health Organization brought local government workers from 52 cities together to share their success and failure stories around reducing noncommunicable diseases and injuries.
The Guardian: At the Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit in Cape Town, South Africa, Luyanda Majija, Associate Director, Communications, Food Policy Program at Vital Strategies, spoke to The Guardian about how governments must push back against beverage industry attempts to lower taxes.