https://www.vitaltalks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Group-14021.svg

Live

Listen

VitalTalks brings together leading voices from diverse fields to discuss today’s most pressing public health challenges.

The Future of Health Financing in Africa: Sharing Global Experiences

The VitalTalks Live event at UNGA explored how health taxes on tobacco, alcohol, and sugary drinks can serve as a “triple win”—saving lives, generating domestic revenue, and reducing long-term health system costs.

Recent

Countering Criminalization for Public Health Vision

Watch Now

Popular

How communications campaigns can help shape public health policy.

Listen on

Recent Speakers

VitalTalks Live brings together leading voices from around the world—people who are shaping the future of public health.

Become a Speaker

Dr. Phil Gardiner

Co-Chair of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council

Featured on:

Perspectives on Health Equity: Part 2 Perspectives on Health Equity: Part 2 Perspectives on Health Equity: Part 2

Listen on

Mamka Anyona

Policy and Strategy Lead for the Health4Life Fund

Featured on:

New Models for Collaboration

Listen on

Grace Chiang Nicolette

Vice President of Programming and External Relations, Center for Effective Philanthropy

Featured on:

Upending the Donor Dynamic

Listen on

Become a Speaker

Our Reach

VitalTalks audience includes public health experts, activists, thought leaders, policymakers, advocates, and funders.

Become a Sponsor

1,700+

People registered for VitalTalks Live events since 2023

6,200+

Listeners tuned into our podcast across all platforms

44.7m

Impressions of
#Vitaltalks

Become a Sponsor

Advocacy in Action: A Conversation with Yolonda Richardson

Watch Now

How can we help consumers make healthier food choices while shopping at the supermarket?

Listen on

How can laws be used to improve public health, particularly in relation to tobacco control and food systems?

Listen on

The IQOS Illusion: Whistleblower papers from inside Philip Morris International

Listen on

Premiere Screening of “Tobacco Slave”

Watch Now

Our Right to Healthy Food

Listen on

Deadly Sway: Harmful Industries and the Global Goals

Watch now

The Tobacco Atlas: Mapping a Path Forward

Watch now

Hope Meets Reality: E-Cigarettes, a Public Health Harm or Harm Reduction?

Watch now

How Mexico Stood Up to Big Soda and What Latin America Is Doing in the Fight Against Obesity

Watch now

Alcohol and Development

Watch now

A Recipe for Health: The Urgent Need for Food Policy

Watch now

Next Generation Addiction with STOP and Truth Initiative

Listen on

Alcohol and Global Health

Listen on

Sabotage, Deceit, and Duplicity. Big Tobacco in Africa

Listen on

Untangling Alcohol: Making Sense of a Leading Global Killer

Listen on

Unsavory Alliances: Big Tobacco’s Covert Network of Influencers

Listen on

Gaslit by Industry Ads and How Creatives Are Fighting Back

Listen on

Food for Thought- What We Don’t Know About the Food We Eat

Listen on

Countering Criminalization with Public Health Vision

Watch Now

Cities Hold the Key: Prioritizing Equity in the COVID-19 Recovery

Watch now

Perspectives on Health Equity Part 1

Listen on

Perspectives on Health Equity Part 2

Listen on

The Role of Power in Addressing Health Inequities

Listen on

Toward a World Where Everyone Counts

Listen on

Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Health

Listen on

Towards Critical Health Equity with Dr. Lisa Bowleg

Listen on

Vaccine Equity and Lessons of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Listen on

What if…Tobacco Control Centered Equity

Listen on

#CountingEveryone for a Healthier World

Listen on

What if…Women’s Health in Africa Centered Global Equity

Listen on

Women and Health with Princess Dina Mired

Listen on

What if…Women Led Global Health?

Listen on

Mass Incarceration and Public Health

Listen on

Can Data End Gender-Based Violence?

Watch Now

Breaking Bondage: The Intersection of Race and Public Health

Watch now

Local Voices, Global Impact: Cities and the Fight Against NCDs

Listen on

Breaking Barriers: Media’s Impact on Public Health

Watch Now

Safer, Healthier Air Starts with Data

Watch Now

Lead Poisoning: The Urgent Need for Global Action

Listen on

Good Health Doesn’t Just Happen: Facing NCDs, Climate Change and Urban Health

Watch now

Government and Societal Responsibility for Control of Epidemics, Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer

Watch now

Investing in Health: NCD Prevention and COVID-19 Recovery

Watch now

COVID-19 and Beyond: Cities on the Front Lines of a Healthier Future

Watch now

The World Wasn’t Prepared for a Pandemic—But It Could Be

Watch now

Putting Money to Work to Prevent NCDs

Watch now

Turning the Tide on the US Overdose Crisis

Watch now

Crisis to Empowerment- Opioid Settlement Funds

Listen on

Air Pollution, Pneumonia, and Child Health

Listen on

Cities, Cycling, Active Transport and Health

Listen on

Harm Reduction and the Overdose Crisis in Puerto Rico

Listen on

Noncommunicable Diseases and COVID-19

Listen on

Leaving No One Behind: A Digital Path Toward Counting Everyone

Watch Now

Using Technology and Data to Improve Active Travel

Listen on

New Models for Collaboration

Listen on

Upending the Donor Dynamic

Listen on

Best of the Public Health Power Hour

Listen on

What if Childhood Lead Poisoning was a Global Priority?

Listen on

UNGA and Public Health

Listen on

What If…Public Health Fueled Social Reform Movements?

Listen on

Community Is the Channel—Communicating in a Networked World

Listen on

The Power of Trusted Messengers in Public Health Campaigns

Listen on

Campaigns for Change: Redefining Harm Reduction with Community Voices

Listen on

Campaigns for Change: How Planned Parenthood and M+R Drive Social Impact

Listen on