Priority Areas

Our focus is on these areas of lung health: tuberculosis (TB), tobacco control, child and maternal health, asthma, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS.

Health Communications
WLF influences health behavior through targeted communications campaigns that respect local conditions and culture. To date it has spearheaded tobacco control communications initiatives in 16 countries.

Capacity Building
Powerful and enduring public health interventions require communities to have a strong health infrastructure and the tools to be self-sufficient. WLF has helped make that possible with support to build new operating theatres in Tanzania, to educate Kenyan clinicians about asthma care, and to establish international tobacco control country offices.

Project Management
To meet their goals, lung health projects demand detailed planning, flexible implementation, and carefully allocated resources. WLF provides management guidance that promotes accountability and builds in-country capacity, enabling its partners eventually to manage their own projects.

Operational Research
WLF supports scientific lung health research to strengthen clinical practice and guide sound policy. Its studies have broadened the evidence base for action by identifying effective ways to administer TB therapy, evaluating a standardized tool for reporting asthma, and analyzing tobacco taxation policies.