Programme
Launch of The Lancet non-communicable disease series 4
Monday 11 February 2013
The John Snow lecture theatre, LSHTM, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT
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The Global development agenda and action to address NCDs
Chair: Professor Peter Piot, Director, LSHTM
11.15 to 11.30
Welcome & introductions
11.30 to 12.00
Opening Plenary
UN progress on the global development agenda, post 2015 and NCDs
Helen Clark, United Nations Development Programme Administrator
12.00 to 13.00
Global advocacy and action to tackle NCDs
Driving forward NCD prevention and control: The role of WHO
Dr Oleg Chestnov Assistant Director General and Dr Nick Banatvala, Noncommunicable diseases
and mental health, World Health Organization
Ending the divide: How to deal with Communicable and Non Communicable Diseases in Africa
Dr Patricio Marquez, Lead Health Specialist and Cluster Leader, southern Africa, World Bank
Brazil’s response to NCDs including the “Health is Priceless” health systems strengthening
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Deborah Carvalho, Director, Department of Non-Communicable Disease Surveillance and Health
Promotion, Government of Brazil
China’s response to NCDs including the National NCD plan and healthy cities initiatives
Dr Dong Zhao, Deputy Director, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung & Blood Vessel Diseases
Capital Medical University Beijing Anzhen Hospital
13.00 to 14.00
Lunch
Ensuring accountability for global action on non-communicable diseases
Chair: Paul Lincoln, Chief Executive, National Heart Forum
14.00 to 15.00
A proposal on an independent global accountability mechanism for NCDs
Professor Robert Beaglehole / Dr Richard Horton, Editor, The Lancet
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control – model and lessons learned
Paula Johns, Former Chair of the FCA Board of Directors, Framework Convention Alliance &
Director of the Tobacco Control Alliance, Brazil
Global accountability mechanisms for action on the diet and obesity risk factors
Dr Tim Lobstein, Policy Director, International Association for the Study of Obesity
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The Lancet NCD4 series – a distillation of perspectives
Chair: Modi Mwatsama, Director, Global Health, National Heart Forum
15.00 to 16.00
Overview of The Lancet NCD4 series
Professor Robert Beaglehole, The University of Auckland, New Zealand and The Lancet NCD4
series coordinator
Authors panel
Embedding NCDs in a post-2015 development agenda
Sir George Alleyne, Director Emeritus, Pan American Health Organization and Chancellor of The
University of the West Indies
Country actions to meet UN commitments on non-communicable diseases: a stepwise approach
Dr Dong Zhao, Deputy Director, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung & Blood Vessel Diseases Capital
Medical University Beijing Anzhen Hospital
Inequalities in noncommunicable diseases and effective responses
Professor Majid Ezzati, Chair in Global Environmental Health, Imperial College London
Promoting access to essential medicines for non-communicable diseases: practical implications of
the UN Political Declaration
Dr Veronika Wirtz, Associate Professor, Center for Global Health and Development, Boston
University, USA and Visiting Professor of the National Institute of Public Health, Mexico
Profits and Pandemics; preventing the harmful influence of the tobacco, alcohol and ultra processed
food and drink industries
Professor Carlos Monteiro, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of Sao
Paulo, Brazil
Improving responsiveness of health systems to non-communicable diseases
Professor Rifat Atun, Professor of International Health Management, Imperial College London and
Head of the Health Management Group, UK
16.00 to 16.30
Tea & coffee break
The way forward: progressing the UN Political Declaration & post-2015 global development agenda
Chair: Dr Richard Horton, Editor, The Lancet
16.30 to 17.50
Discussion panel
Cary Adams, Chair, NCD Alliance and CEO, Union for International Cancer Control
Dr Sarah England, Global Health Team, Bloomberg Philanthropies
Sir George Alleyne, Emeritus Director, Pan American Health Organisation and Chancellor of The
University of the West Indies
Dr Mary Nyamongo, Executive Director, Africa Institute for Health and Development, and
Coordinator Consortium for Non-communicable Diseases, Kenya
Greg Hallen, Program Leader, Non-Communicable Disease Prevention program, International
Development Research Centre
Dr Patricio Marquez, Lead Health Specialist and Cluster Leader, southern Africa, World Bank
17.50 to 18.00
Summary & close
Dr Richard Horton, Editor, The Lancet
18.00 to 19.00
Reception
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