Every year in November, the GACD holds its flagship event – the Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM). Exclusively for researchers and implementing partners working on GACD funded projects past and present, and invited funding agency representatives, the ASM is a major knowledge sharing and networking event. The aims of the ASM are: To provide a platform for information flow from individual GACD projects...
The Economist will organise the 2nd annual Future of Healthcare Week Asia between 22-25 November 2021. At this 4 day virtual and in-person event, policymakers, healthcare providers, academics and scientists will come together with representatives from industry, patient associations, charities and the finance sector to examine the COVID-19 aftermath and how to solve the vulnerabilities...
Implementation research projects in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the government policy to lockdown and limit mobility in all of the project sites. This has affected community engagement at both primary health care and community organisation levels. Also, researchers could not visit the project sites to...
The GACD workshop on Planetary health, NCDs, and implementation will delve into the synergies between climate change, the environment, and NCDs; highlight the rationale for the upcoming GACD grant call; and explore the role of implementation research in planetary health. Date: Wednesday 20 July 2022 Time: Sitting A 07:00—08:30 UTC and Sitting B 17:00—18:30 UTC....
In 2022, the campaign theme is "Invest to Protect." It is all about prioritising the urgent need for increased NCD financing to prevent and treat NCDs and build resilient health systems that leave no one behind. Visit https://actonncds.org/ for more detail, campaign resources and how you can join this movement!
Virtual event on 8 September 2022, 14:30 – 16:00 CET / 19:30 – 21:00 ICT Co-hosted by the NCD Alliance, World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Diabetes Foundation, this event will bring focus to the urgency of investing in NCD prevention and care. It will also start the discussion on what success at the Second...
SUNI-SEA consortium members meeting will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam during 9-13 October this year. This will be the first face-to-face gathering among ten consortium members after the project had been running for almost four years. As the prospective period is coming to an end in December, the team will have many issues to discuss,...
The seventy-third session of the World Health Organization Regional Committee for the Western Pacific is being held from 24 to 28 October 2022 in Manila, Philippines. Ms Nong Thi Thu Trang, representative from HelpAge International in Vietnam - one of the 10 SUNI-SEA consortium members, submitted her statement.
Join the skills-building webinar organised by the SUNI-SEA consortium, powered by EUPHA and co-funded by the European Union. The SUNI-SEA consortium will share their experiences on scaling-up community based non-communicable diseases prevention. To reduce the burden of NCD prevention, early detection and treatment is crucial. During this webinar, we’ll dive into the research project Scaling...
The 15th EPH Conference in Berlin, Germany will be the first EPH Conference since Marseille 2019 to take place live and in person from 9 – 12 November 2022. The theme of Berlin 2022 is ‘Strengthening health systems: improving population health and being prepared for the unexpected’. Conference tracks: A. Strengthening health systems: improving population...
