# Resolve to Save Lives: Global health experts on a mission to stop preventable deaths

> Resolve to Save Lives is a global health organization focused on accelerating action against the world's deadliest health threats\.

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## Pages
- [About](https://resolvetosavelives.org/who-we-are/about/)
- [Contact us](https://resolvetosavelives.org/contact/)
- [Disclosures](https://resolvetosavelives.org/disclosures/)
- [Privacy policy](https://resolvetosavelives.org/privacy-policy/)
- [How we save lives](https://resolvetosavelives.org/how-we-save-lives/)
- [Our priorities](https://resolvetosavelives.org/how-we-save-lives/our-priorities/)
- [Blood pressure control](https://resolvetosavelives.org/how-we-save-lives/blood-pressure-control/)
- [Epidemic prevention](https://resolvetosavelives.org/how-we-save-lives/epidemic-prevention/)
- [Healthier food](https://resolvetosavelives.org/how-we-save-lives/healthier-food/)
- [Strong primary health care](https://resolvetosavelives.org/how-we-save-lives/primary-health-care/)
- [Our strategies in action](https://resolvetosavelives.org/strategies-in-action/)
- [Where we work](https://resolvetosavelives.org/where-we-work/)
- [Who we are](https://resolvetosavelives.org/who-we-are/)
- [News](https://resolvetosavelives.org/news/)
- [Resource Library](https://resolvetosavelives.org/resources/)
- [Procurement Resource Library](https://resolvetosavelives.org/procurement-resource-library/)
- [7\-1\-7 Early Disease Detection v2](https://resolvetosavelives.org/how-we-save-lives/epidemic-prevention/7-1-7/)
- [Epidemic\-Ready Primary Health Care](https://resolvetosavelives.org/epidemic-prevention/erphc/)
- [Simple, standard treatment protocols](https://resolvetosavelives.org/how-we-save-lives/hypertension/simple-standard-treatment-protocols/): Simple protocols standardize treatment of hypertension at the primary care level, streamline prescription processes, and improve outcomes for programs and patients\. 
- [It's time to go digital](https://resolvetosavelives.org/digital-platforms/)
- [RTSL: Ethiopia](https://resolvetosavelives.org/where-we-work/ethiopia/): Resolve to Save Lives’ New Delhi office opened its doors in 2024 to serve our longstanding partnerships for cardiovascular health in India\. 
- [RTSL: India](https://resolvetosavelives.org/where-we-work/india/): Resolve to Save Lives’ New Delhi office opened its doors in 2024 to serve our longstanding partnerships for cardiovascular health in India\. 
- [RTSL: Nigeria](https://resolvetosavelives.org/where-we-work/rtsl-nigeria/): Resolve to Save Lives’ Abuja office opened its doors in 2022 to strengthen partnerships for cardiovascular health and epidemic prevention in Nigeria\.
- [Team](https://resolvetosavelives.org/who-we-are/team/)
- [Careers](https://resolvetosavelives.org/who-we-are/careers/)
- [2025 in review](https://resolvetosavelives.org/annual-report/2025/): In the 2025 annual report from Resolve to Save Lives, we share highlights from our work with our partners
- [Our Partners](https://resolvetosavelives.org/who-we-are/our-partners/)
- [Funding Partners](https://resolvetosavelives.org/who-we-are/funding-partners/)
- [Annual reports](https://resolvetosavelives.org/annual-report/)
- [Collaborative surveillance](https://resolvetosavelives.org/epidemic-prevention/collaborative-surveillance/)
- [PMEP \- Leading change in epidemic preparedness](https://resolvetosavelives.org/epidemic-prevention/pmep/)
- [Laws and regulations](https://resolvetosavelives.org/epidemic-prevention/laws-and-regulations/)
- [Salt reduction](https://resolvetosavelives.org/healthier-food/salt-reduction/)
- [Trans fat elimination](https://resolvetosavelives.org/healthier-food/trans-fat-elimination/)
- [Trans Fat Elimination Communications Toolkit](https://resolvetosavelives.org/blood-pressure-control/transfat/communications-toolkit/)
- [Sodium Reduction: An annotated bibliography](https://resolvetosavelives.org/how-we-save-lives/healthier-food/sodium-annotated-bibliography/)
- [Sodium reduction framework](https://resolvetosavelives.org/how-we-save-lives/healthier-food/sodium-framework/)
- [Global Nutrition Database for Packaged Foods](https://resolvetosavelives.org/healthier-food/global-nutrition-database/ndb/)
- [Global Nutrition Database for Packaged Foods Introduction](https://resolvetosavelives.org/how-we-save-lives/healthier-food/global-nutrition-database/)
- [Under Pressure](https://resolvetosavelives.org/blood-pressure-control/under-pressure/)
- [Justice \& inclusion](https://resolvetosavelives.org/who-we-are/justice-and-inclusion/)
- [Civil society advocacy for domestic investment in epidemic preparedness](https://resolvetosavelives.org/cso-budget/)
- [Join us](https://resolvetosavelives.org/join-us/)

## Team members
- [Samantha Kozikott](https://resolvetosavelives.org/about/team/samantha-kozikott-ms-mph/)
- [Erica Rountree](https://resolvetosavelives.org/about/team/erica-rountree/)
- [Kate Wolf](https://resolvetosavelives.org/about/team/kate-wolf/)
- [Dr\. Tom Frieden](https://resolvetosavelives.org/about/team/tom-frieden/)
- [Dr\. Tom Frieden](https://resolvetosavelives.org/about/team/dr-tom-frieden/)

## Timeline entries
- [Detecting lead in cosmetics in Nigeria](https://resolvetosavelives.org/timeline/detecting-harmful-lead-in-cosmetics-in-nigeria/): Resolve to Save Lives partnered with Nigeria's Standards Organization to train scientists on using portable XRF devices to screen cosmetics for lead contamination\.
- [In Kano State, Nigeria, new tools to screen consumer products for lead](https://resolvetosavelives.org/timeline/kano-new-xrf-devices-to-screen-products-for-lead/): Resolve to Save Lives donates an XRF device to Kano State, Nigeria, strengthening the state's capacity to screen consumer products for lead and inform regulatory and public health decisions\.
- [New partnerships to prevent lead poisoning](https://resolvetosavelives.org/timeline/new-partnerships-to-prevent-lead-poisoning/): Resolve to Save Lives is partnering with WHO and Nigeria to combat lead exposure—reducing preventable deaths and building a global model for lead poisoning prevention\.
- [A call to end lead exposure in Nigeria](https://resolvetosavelives.org/timeline/a-call-to-end-lead-exposure-in-nigeria/): Nigeria marks International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week with stakeholder events and ministerial briefing\. Ministers highlight rural mining communities' high lead exposure risk and children's irreversible neurological damage\.
- [2025 in review: Country leadership, global impact](https://resolvetosavelives.org/timeline/2025-country-leadership-global-impact/): 2025 highlights: cardiovascular health partnerships on track to prevent 9 million deaths, 15 million new hypertension patients enrolled, and 4 billion people now protected from trans fat\.

## Press items
- [New article in JAMA calls for less rhetoric and more action before, during, and after 2025 UN High\-Level Meeting on noncommunicable diseases](https://resolvetosavelives.org/about/press/new-article-in-jama-calls-for-less-rhetoric-and-more-action-before-during-and-after-2025-un-high-level-meeting-on-noncommunicable-diseases/): In JAMA, Dr\. Tom Frieden and colleagues call for focused strategy and more investment to address NCDs\. 
- [Resolve to Save Lives appoints Angela Sun to Board of Directors](https://resolvetosavelives.org/about/press/rtsl-appoints-angela-sun-to-board-of-directors/)
- [45 Rwandan Clinicians Are Helping Shape Medical AI for Low\-Resource Setting](https://resolvetosavelives.org/about/press/rwandan-clinicians-helping-shape-medical-ai-for-low-resource-setting/)
- [New Lancet article finds mass blood pressure screenings to be ineffective](https://resolvetosavelives.org/about/press/new-lancet-article-finds-mass-blood-pressure-screenings-to-be-ineffective/): What works? Every adult patient should have their blood pressure measured at every medical visit\.
- [Statement from Dr\. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, on proposed cuts to chronic disease programs in FY26 President's Budget](https://resolvetosavelives.org/about/press/statement-fy26-presidents-budget/)

## Resources
- [Progress in epidemic\-ready primary health: early pilot results from four African countries \(Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda\), December 2023\-October 2024](https://resolvetosavelives.org/resources/epidemic-ready-primary-health-care-pilot-africa-2024/)
- [Trends in Global Hypertension, 2000 to 2020](https://resolvetosavelives.org/resources/global-hypertension-2000-to-2020/)
- [White paper: Low\-sodium salt substitutes for hypertension and cardiovascular disease control in India](https://resolvetosavelives.org/resources/white-paper-lsss-india/)
- [Consensus on the Use of Potassium\-Enriched Low\-Sodium Salt Substitutes \(LSSS\) as a Public Health Intervention in India](https://resolvetosavelives.org/resources/consensus-on-potassium-enriched-lsss-in-india/)
- [Strengthening frontline worker outbreak preparedness and response knowledge in Nigeria and Uganda](https://resolvetosavelives.org/resources/strengthening-frontline-outbreak-preparedness-in-nigeria-uganda/)

## Strategies in action
- [Partner highlight: Dr\. Champika Wickramasinghe of Sri Lanka](https://resolvetosavelives.org/strategies-in-action/partner-highlight-dr-champika-wickramasinghe-in-sri-lanka/)
- ["Epidemic\-Ready" health care workers in Uganda sound the alarm to end outbreaks faster](https://resolvetosavelives.org/strategies-in-action/epidemic-ready-health-care-workers-in-uganda-sound-the-alarm-to-end-outbreaks-faster/): We partnered with Uganda’s Infectious Diseases Institute and its MoH to equip frontline health workers to quickly spot and report infectious disease threats in an Epidemic\-Ready Primary Health Care project\.
- [How "Epidemic\-Ready" health facilities in Sierra Leone stopped measles in its tracks](https://resolvetosavelives.org/strategies-in-action/how-epidemic-ready-health-facilities-in-sierra-leone-stopped-measles-in-its-tracks/): We partnered with primary health facilities in Sierra Leone to train frontline workers to detect and report infectious disease cases\. 
- [Turning the tide on blood pressure control in Sri Lanka](https://resolvetosavelives.org/strategies-in-action/turning-the-tide-on-hypertension-control-in-sri-lanka/): Uncovering and addressing a surprising barrier to blood pressure control with our data\-driven approach 
- [In Nigeria, this pilot program is making blood pressure treatment affordable for all](https://resolvetosavelives.org/strategies-in-action/in-nigeria-this-pilot-program-is-making-blood-pressure-treatment-affordable-for-all/): Streamlining makes quality treatment possible at a price patients can afford\.

## Priorities \& Strategies
- [Epidemic prevention](https://resolvetosavelives.org/priorities-strategies/epidemic-prevention/)
- [Blood pressure control](https://resolvetosavelives.org/priorities-strategies/blood-pressure-control/)
- [Trans fat elimination](https://resolvetosavelives.org/priorities-strategies/healthier-food/trans-fat/)
- [COVID\-19](https://resolvetosavelives.org/priorities-strategies/covid-19/)
- [Healthier food](https://resolvetosavelives.org/priorities-strategies/healthier-food/)

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