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Health research agencies form global alliance to curb humanity's most fatal diseases
Date:6/15/2009

eases" (www.who.int/entity/nmh/NCD%20Action%20Plan%20Resolution.pdf)

The following research priorities have been proposed by some founding Alliance members, for discussion at their inaugural scientific meetings in November:

  • Test ways to prevent cardiovascular diseases and complications of diabetes;
  • Identify and promote public health measures for controlling obesity;
  • Characterize and quantify the major risk factors for chronic obstructive airways disease (both tobacco and environmental pollution) and the development of control measures; and
  • Advance research into the problem of tobacco consumption and its relationship to cancer, cardiovascular disease and other disorders;
  • Develop interventions to address the above priorities.

The proposed priorities were identified in a collaborative paper, "Grand Challenges in Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases," published in the journal Nature (Vol 450|22, Nov. 2007). Based on a global Delphi survey, this widely-cited research paper has been acknowledged as a sound, systematic framework for reaching practical policy solutions to the prevention and treatment of humanity's most common chronic diseases.

Setting research priorities for non-communicable disease prevention will be closely coordinated with WHO.

A future Alliance research priority is likely to be in the area of mental health.


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Contact: Terry Collins
terrycollins@rogers.com
416-538-8712
Program on Life Sciences, Ethics and Policy,McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health
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