Partnership for Healthy Cities, a global network of 70 cities committed to preventing non-communicable diseases and injuries held its first-of-a-kind summit hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies, World Health Organization, Vital Strategies, and Mayor Sadiq Khan of London. 

The summit proclaimed the various prevention strategies of local public health policy-making and implementation to prevent the risk factors of NCDs. 

Five cities received US$ 150,000 to advance their work in the partnership: Athens, Greece - for overdose prevention; Montevideo, Uruguay - for food policy; Mexico City - for road safety; Vancouver, Canada - for surveillance; Bengaluru, India- for tobacco control. 

The summit recognized the sustained efforts of the city to decrease smoking in public spaces and enforce the existing mandates.