Follow the Data Podcast: The Power of Parent Coalitions
July 30, 2021
Mothers have long been leaders in mobilizing around social issues like drunk driving, women’s suffrage, and child labor laws – and today’s activists and organizers are leveraging social media and other digital tools to connect with and build a diverse coalition of volunteers across the country.
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Follow the Data Podcast: Preventing Childhood Drowning Around the World
July 23, 2021
More than 90% of drowning deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, and children under the age of five are most at risk. To highlight the impact drowning has on communities – and to draw attention to the need for urgent action – the United Nations General Assembly passed its first-ever Resolution on Global Drowning Prevention, declaring July 25th as World Drowning Prevention Day.
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Black Wealth Transfer and the Racial Wealth Gap
July 8, 2021
In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Bloomberg’s Power of Difference series on Black wealth offered a deep dive into issues that impact intergenerational Black wealth transfer. The four part series, hosted by Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, seeks to highlight and encourage dialogue about the structures that aid in Black wealth accumulation and extraction.
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Accelerating climate policy is simply good public policy
June 30, 2021
As countries are raising their ambitions in advance of COP26 in Glasgow, more and more attention is turning to the role cities can play in addressing climate change. For urban residents, this is not an academic discussion. As the planet continues to warm, city dwellers are feeling the impacts of climate change. From crippling floods across China to the drought fueled wildfires across Australia and California, the signs of a changing climate and detrimental impacts could not be clearer.
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Follow the Data Podcast: Increasing Diversity in STEM Fields
June 18, 2021
In our Follow the Data podcast, we discuss the Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative with a goal of ensuring diverse scholars in the future, and why it’s important to create pathway programs to prepare the next generation of leaders in STEM fields.
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Follow the Data Podcast: Reducing Injuries and Traffic Crashes on Roads Around the World
June 11, 2021
One public health challenge that receives limited attention and insufficient resources is road safety. Our founder, Mike Bloomberg, is the WHO’s Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries. Given that road traffic crashes kill nearly 1.35 million people and injure as many as 50 million every year, this is a major focus in his role. Weak and inadequate road safety laws, minimal or nonexistent vehicle safety standards, and streets designed solely for vehicle use – and not pedestrians – are serious threats to road safety, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
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For moms everywhere this Mother’s Day: Birth companionship in remote Tanzania
May 9, 2021
Moms: Imagine being alone when you go to a hospital to deliver your baby. Nobody to hold your hand, bring you water, or offer words of comfort during the worst of the pain. And still alone after the baby came and you needed some rest, there was nobody to hold your crying baby. That’s what it used to be like for mothers in Tanzania, where public health facilities discouraged women from having a companion during childbirth because of limited space in the maternity ward and because health providers feared that companions would interfere with the process. The unforeseen result was that women became fearful of going to a health facility for childbirth.
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Follow the Data Podcast: The Economic Cost of Gun Violence in America
May 7, 2021
Everytown for Gun Safety’s President John Feinblatt and Everytown’s Director of Research, Sarah Burd-Sharps joined the podcast to tell us more about how their team calculated the economic cost of gun violence, why good storytelling is critical in the fight for gun sense action, and how Everytown is working to prevent gun violence at the federal, state, and local levels.
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Building Resilience: How Bloomberg is Partnering with the Commonwealth to Support Nations Vulnerable to Natural Disasters
May 6, 2021
The Commonwealth Secretariat — the administrative arm of the Commonwealth, an association of 54 countries that is home to 2.4 billion people — and Bloomberg Philanthropies have collaborated to release the Disaster Resilience Taskforce Toolkit. The Toolkit will help governments assess the resilience of their preparedness procedures, provide structures which can be implemented during a crisis, and help authorities analyze the effectiveness of their actions post-disaster.
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The Ticking Clock: A race toward transportation electrification
April 30, 2021
By Ben Prochazka, Executive Director, Electrification Coalition
When you consider that most modern-day vehicles have a lifespan of 10-20 years, we’re in a sprint against the clock to electrify transportation in the United States and across the world. The transportation sector is the largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, in part because of successful efforts including Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Beyond Carbon that have worked to clean the power sector. Along with investments in public transit and complete streets, electric vehicles represent one of the best and fastest routes to a zero-emission and oil-free transportation future.
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