The Lancet recently published a commentary that provides a succinct outline of how the global NCD community should move forward now that the UN High-level Meeting on NCDs has passed...
The weekend before the UN Meeting and during the Meeting itself, we saw organizations and governments from all over the world expressing their concern for the global burden of NCDs and committing themselves to finding solutions...
Some press coverage on the UN High-level Meeting...
Unlike neglected tropical diseases, NCDs threaten low-, middle-, and high-income countries and consequently there are large markets and powerful incentives for research and development into drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics for common NCDs...
Johanna Ralston, CEO of the World Heart Federation, recently wrote a blog post asking the question, can we measure physical activity?
Richard Smith posted this "starter pack" for teaching NCDs in low- and middle-income countries to the UnitedHealth and NHLBI Collaborating Centers of Excellence discussion board. He was kind enough to share it with the ProCor community as well...
Dr. Collins Kokuro presented a paper on the Ashanti-ProCor project's findings to the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) conference in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso...
Nearly 20 hours of focus group discussion and key information interviews, conducted in November 2008, have been transcribed and are being coded prior to qualitative analysis. Additional discussions with pharmacy and medical herbalist students (in conjunction with KNUST) are being planned for September-October 2009; and focus groups with pharmacists and nursing students will take place in November...
"Modern medicine, even at a basic level, has largely failed the majority of the world's population. The human consequences are likely to be massive: death and harm caused directly by health workers; and failure to prevent deaths that are readily avoided by appropriate interventions."
The British Heart Foundation and the University of Oxford is hosting an accredited short course on 15-20 July 2012 that focuses on understanding the burden of NCDs, developing skills in designing and evaluating prevention strategies, and providing a knowledge exchange forum...
The Katie Memorial Foundation is seeking applicants for the 2012 Katie Evans Memorial Scholarship...
AYUDA is seeking applications for volunteers to participate in their 2012 programs in Dominican Republic and Ecuador...
