Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Meet Tran Bich Phuong, GHAI’s in-country coordinator for Vietnam’s Road Safety Program! With over 25 years of public health experience, she’s been instrumental in advancing life-saving policies—like the 2024 Road Safety and Order Law, which, for the first time, includes child restraint provisions. In this Q&A, Phuong shares her journey, the challenges of building cross-sector coalitions and what’s next for road safety in Vietnam. Read our latest blog for more: https://lnkd.in/eYM4R78T

Our Road Safety team had an amazing experience at the Transforming Transportation conference last week! We gained invaluable insights and engaged in meaningful discussions on critical issues such as AI for safer transportation, opportunities for women in transport, motorcycle safety and more.   Ariana Childs Graham joined the World Resources Institute panel on Motorcycle Safety and Urban Road Infrastructure, sharing insights from GHAI’s The Motorcycle Safety Imperative: An Action Agenda to Address a Growing Public Health and Safety Crisis. Dive into the report for innovations, valuable lessons and promising practices from changemakers tackling the motorcycle safety crisis. https://lnkd.in/eHwGkzxW

At the 2025 National Strategic Health Summit, co-organized by the Nigerian government and GHAI on February 18, Dr.Kamil Shoretire, Director of Health Planning, Research and Statistics in the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, outlined strategies for accelerating Nigeria's immunization program, reducing the incidence of infectious diseases and slowing the rise of non-communicable diseases. He also discussed innovative financial mechanisms to improve primary healthcare quality and enhance the capacity of Nigeria's health sector human resources. Watch his insights on how these initiatives are shaping a stronger, more resilient health system in Nigeria. #NigeriaHealthSummit #HealthSecurity #GlobalHealth

Join us on May 8, 2025, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., for an evening of community as we honor the accomplishments of outstanding young leaders and public health champions from the United States and around the world. Learn more at tfk.org/awards #YAYA2025 

📢 Save the Date!   Please join the Global Health Advocacy Incubator and Dejusticia for an engaging virtual event: “Book launch | Law, Trade and Nutrition Labeling Reflections and Experiences from Latin America.”   In this session, we’ll dive into how trade and economic law have been used to challenge front-of-package warning labels (FOPWL) on unhealthy products— and how advocates across Latin America have fought back.   🔹 Hear directly from experts and advocates from Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay who have fought against legal obstacles to FOPWL. 🔹 Gain valuable insights on legal strategies, advocacy campaigns and lessons learned. 🔹 Join the conversation and get your questions answered by those on the frontlines.   Register now: https://lnkd.in/e3g83Yzc

Last month, we hosted our bi-annual Advocacy Action Guide training in Johannesburg, South Africa. This two-day training takes participants through the guide where they work through the four phases of advocacy planning and implementation, share best practices and hear from teams about how this has worked. This training featured in-country consultants and partners from 12 countries across Africa and Asia specializing in Road Safety, Food Policy, Cardiovascular Health, Tobacco Control, Immunization and Drowning Prevention.

Funding cuts are threatening global health. That's why civil society advocacy is more crucial than ever, write Aaron Emmel and Lucy Martinez Sullivan from the Global Health Advocacy Incubator in this opinion. #opinion #globalhealth #cuts

I shared my insights on improving health security investments in Nigeria at the 2025 National Strategic Health Summit, held recently in Abuja. While increased allocation for epidemics and preparedness is critical, mainstreaming effectiveness and efficiency in the use of available funding through the NAPHS is also key! Watch the video to learn more about Legislative Initiative for Sustainable Development (LISDEL)’s advocacy strategies in Lagos and Kano States, supported by Global Health Advocacy Incubator and how these efforts are crucial for a resilient Nigerian health system ¹. #HealthSecurity #Nigeria #LISDEL #GHAI

Our immunization budget advocacy support to Cameroon, in partnership with Service d'Appui aux Initiatives Locales de Développement (SAILD), is now in full gear. A meeting last week between GHAI’s immunization country lead for Cameroon—Harmelle ENAME, SAILD officials and Cameroonian Member of Parliament Hon. Ngo Issi Rolande has led to a commitment to establish a parliamentary working group dedicated to vaccine funding. This group, comprising seven Members of Parliament and three senators, aims to prioritize vaccine issues in budget discussions, marking a crucial step forward for the "Promoting Vaccine Sovereignty in Cameroon" initiative launched by SAILD and GHAI in December 2024. The meeting emphasized the importance of sustainable vaccine funding and budget advocacy to mobilize domestic resources for vaccination. Hon. Ngo Issi expressed her commitment to supporting the initiative, highlighting the need for a sustainable approach to ensure vaccine access for all. The creation of this working group is seen as a great kickstart to the immunization budget advocacy project, which began last December with a study on immunization financing gaps in Cameroon. The study will be launched soon. #VaccinesSaveLives #Cameroon #Immunization

A birth certificate acts as a life-long passport for the recognition of rights and protections, enabling a person to ‘exist’ in society. Because of this, States have signed up to international treaty obligations to ensure that all children have their births registered immediately after birth. In addition, registration of births and deaths and the causes of deaths are critical to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development agenda.   Globally, an estimated 230 million children under the age of five are unregistered, denied their fundamental right to a legal identity. This staggering statistic highlights the urgent need for governments to uphold their international obligations on birth and death registration, as detailed in our #DataForHealth team’s new briefing paper.    Take a look at States’ international treaty obligations on civil registration and the Sustainable Development Goals that rely on functioning civil registration systems: https://lnkd.in/e8FYttpk