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September 1, 2025
Frieden TR

The Formula for Better Health How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own

The formula to stop invisible killers—an approach that can protect your health and prevent the next pandemic—from one of the most influential public health leaders in the US.
May 8, 2025
Frieden TR, Garg R, Moran AE, Whelton PK

Improved hypertension care requires measurement and management in health facilities, not mass screening.

Improved hypertension control can save millions of lives, but mass hypertension screening, a commonly used approach, is a barrier to progress.
March 4, 2025
Frieden TR, Garg R, Banigbe B, Choudhury S, Ogbureke N, Duguma D, Tangcharoensathien V

Unlocking health equity by eliminating copayments for essential antihypertensive medications

Hypertension kills more people than any other condition; approximately 80% of deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
February 21, 2025
Frieden TR, Alleyne G, Coll-Seck AM,

Fourth Time a Charm?—How to Make the UN High-Level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases Effective.

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) cause three-fourths of the world’s deaths, with the number continuing to increase.
January 29, 2025
Spatz ES, Schwartz JI, Frieden TR

Blood Pressure Control—Many Paths, 1 Goal. 

Blood pressure control among individuals with hypertension in both high-income and in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) is low, resulting in avoidable and expensive strokes, heart attacks, kidney failure, dementia,
December 10, 2024
Moran AE, Aimiosior O, Gupta R, Pathni A, Sahoo SK, Dessie G, Osi K, Zhang X, Banigbe B, Garg R, Frieden TR

Integrated Antihypertensive and Statin Treatment Protocols for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

In low- and middle-income countries where the majority of preventable cardiovascular disease deaths occur, less than 10% of eligible patients receive statins for primary cardiovascular disease prevention.
November 23, 2024
Frieden TR, McClelland A, Matsoso P

Moving forward globally to improve health outcomes

In: Fisher D, editor. Infectious Disease Emergencies: Preparedness and Response. 1st ed. NUS Press; 2025
August 5, 2024
Steele L, Drummond E, Nishida C, Yamamoto R, Branca F, Frieden TR et al.

Ending Trans Fat—The First-Ever Global Elimination Program for a Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factor

October 31, 2023
Cash-Goldwasser S, Reingold AL, Luby SP, Jackson LA, Frieden TR

Masks During Pandemics Caused by Respiratory Pathogens—Evidence and Implications for Action

September 19, 2023
Andrew E. Moran, MD, MPH, Reena Gupta, MD on behalf of the Global Hearts Initiative Collaborators

Implementation of Global Hearts Hypertension Control Programs in 32 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: JACC International

May 4, 2023
Frieden TR, Lee CT, Lamorde M, Nielsen M, McClelland A, Tangcharoensathien, V

The road to achieving epidemic-ready primary health care

January 13, 2023
Burka D, Gupta R, Moran AE, Cohn J, Choudhury S, Cheadle T, Mullick R, Frieden TR

Keep it simple: designing a user-centred digital information system to support chronic disease management in low/middle-income countries

August 14, 2021
Frieden TR, Lee CT, Bochner AF, Buissonnière M, McClelland A.

7-1-7: an organising principle, target, and accountability metric to make the world safer from pandemics

COVID-19 makes it both possible and necessary to review lessons learnt from recent epidemics, re-evaluate approaches, and develop a framework that accelerates progress to make the world safer from epidemics.
November 18, 2020

Of Masks and Methods