WHO is to be congratulated for going out of its comfort zone. This week in Moscow, they demonstrated an uncharacteristic inclusiveness, bringing together multiple stakeholders from beyond the member states, including civil society, academics, industry etc. so that all could participate in shaping the Declaration, the key output, to be released at the end of [...]

This week there is the much-awaited Russian Ministerial Meeting – The First Global Ministerial Conference on Healthy Lifestyles and Non-Communicable Disease Control – organized by the WHO and the Russian Ministry of Health, on April 28 and 29 in Moscow. Widely recognized and anticipated as an important precursor to the UN High-Level Meeting, this meeting [...]

Over the last few weeks, the pace of developments in non-communicable disease (NCD) news has been heady. So much is happening it is hard even for those of us in the NCD community to keep up. But even in the midst of so much news, one item stood out head and shoulders above the rest: [...]

This post was written by Nalini Saligram, PhD, founder and CEO of Arogya World. On Earth Day, we generally tend to focus on the impact of people on the planet. But it is equally important to consider the impact of pollution on people and health including non-communicable diseases (NCDs). NCDs, which include cardiovascular disease, diabetes, [...]

Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and provides members and supporters of organizations such as ours with an opportunity to reflect on the role of mothers in disease prevention. As we’ve discussed in this space before (and surely will again), the world is at a tipping point. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, [...]