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Founded Since 1850
Company Description
About Us
Drawing on decades of experience working with global civil society organizations across public health issues and political systems, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator provides strategic support to advocates working to enact and implement laws that save lives. Our history is rooted in one of the most successful public health campaigns — tobacco control. Building on the successes and lessons learned in the global fight against tobacco deaths, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids launched the Global Health Advocacy Incubator in 2014 to strengthen advocacy capacity to improve public health around the globe.
Our experience designing successful campaigns and passing policies to save lives gave us an innovative and proven model for advocacy – one that is locally led and adaptable to culture, political context and issue area. Our expert multidisciplinary team has a broad range of experience planning, executing and evaluating high-impact policy advocacy campaigns. We provide capacity building and technical assistance across all components of effective policy advocacy, including political mapping, legal analysis and strategic planning to media advocacy, coalition building and grassroots mobilization.
We’ve stood up against powerful industries and overwhelming political opposition. And despite the odds, we’ve won. Our values are drawn from this history, our commitment to public health and our unwavering belief in the power of policy change.
Our values:
- We believe advocating for evidence-based policies is a means to achieve positive public health outcomes.
- We consider health a fundamental human right, and we must take action to promote and protect it.
- We believe policy change must be locally led and sustained. Our role is to enhance the ability of advocates to create the change they envision.
- We respect the dignity, cultural context, capabilities and perspectives of the people in the countries where we work.
- We will not work or associate with any entities that are in conflict with our goals and values.
Our Advocacy Approach
The Global Health Advocacy Incubator has deep and broad experience proving that policy change saves lives. We take a specific, targeted approach to deliver health policy wins in countries around the world, in every type of government system.
Our path to policy change begins with data, evidence and global best practice. We start with the facts, then look carefully at the local landscape. We identify and build the capacity of local organizations and coalitions and precisely analyze the political, legal and media context before developing a custom strategy to achieve policy goals.
We ensure that campaign plans are executed effectively by quickly adapting to changing landscapes, filling in gaps wherever they appear and countering opposition. Our advocacy approach includes political mapping, strategic communications, legal analysis and more.
We have honed our proven approach using decades of experience and hundreds of documented successes, so we know our methodology makes change possible.

Our Public Health Advocacy Programs
GHAI supports local partners to lead advocacy that delivers health policy wins in countries around the world, in diverse political systems. Our programs are organized within the following areas of work:
Food and Nutrition:Â We support advocacy campaigns that promote sustainable food systems, ensuring everyone has the right to access healthy food. We build movements to reduce the demand for unhealthy, ultra-processed foods and beverages and to promote access to nutritious food.
Health Systems Strengthening:Â We build equitable and resilient health systems in low- and middle-income countries by advancing policies and programs that secure sustainable domestic investments.
Injury Prevention:Â We support advocacy campaigns that advance policy changes to reduce deaths from overdoses and save lives on the road.
Food and Nutrition
Food Policy
Cardiovascular Health
Data for Health
Drowning Prevention
Hypertension and Primary Healthcare
Immunization
Maternal and Reproductive Health
Prevent Epidemics
Overdose Prevention
Road Safety
Preventing Violence Against Women
Contact Us
info@advocacyincubator.org
1400 I Street NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20005
United States of America
Phone: (202) 296-5469
Fax: (202) 296-5427