New Initiative Launches to Address Neglected Global Health Crisis of Alcohol Harms
NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcohol consumption is a top-ten driver of death, illness and injury, with wide-ranging social and economic harms. Many of the harms related to alcohol disproportionately affect young adults, and surveys from multiple countries suggest that the Covid-19 pandemic has further increased drinking. Today, Vital Strategies announced RESET Alcohol – a groundbreaking new $15 million initiative to reduce alcohol-related harms in hard-hit countries through policy change.
- Today, Vital Strategies announced RESET Alcohol a groundbreaking new $15 million initiative to reducealcohol-related harms in hard-hit countries through policy change.
- Public health work on alcohol isvastly underfunded relative to the issue's burden, and the philanthropic award that founds RESET Alcohol roughly doubles existing global funding.
- RESET Alcohol is a collaboration of six global organizations: Vital Strategies, which is leading the initiative; Movendi International ; the University of Illinois Chicago ; the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance (GAPA); the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Alliance ;and World Health Organization (WHO).
- Learn more about RESET Alcohol here: https://www.vitalstrategies.org/programs/alcohol-policy/
RESET Alcohol brings together national governments, civil society, and global leaders to advance policies from the World Health Organization's SAFER package for reducing the health, social and economic harms of alcohol.