Atlas Trail
How Prevention Went Global
Public health began as local sanitation and ended the century writing treaties. This trail follows prevention as it scaled: a vaccine given to schoolchildren across one country, a charter that redefined health promotion for every sector, the first global health treaty, the toolkit that carried it into law, and a vaccine recommendation for the children of an entire continent.
Stop 1 of 5.
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February 1954: the Salk inactivated vaccine goes into American schoolchildren at scale, and polio incidence falls from 18 per 100,000 to fewer than 2.
Stop 2 of 5.
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Ottawa, 21 November 1986: the first International Conference on Health Promotion defines the field and hands prevention to every sector, not the health sector alone.
Stop 3 of 5.
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2003: WHO member states adopt the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, an evidence based treaty now covering more than 90 percent of the world population.
Stop 4 of 5.
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2007: MPOWER turns the treaty into six practical measures, and over 6 billion people come to be covered by at least one of them at best practice level.
Stop 5 of 5.
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October 2021: the first malaria vaccine recommendation, RTS,S/AS01 for children in moderate to high transmission regions, expected to save tens of thousands of young lives a year.
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