Formerly considered to be “diseases of the rich,” it is now clear that chronic, non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic lung disease, and cancer, pose devastating health threats in low- and middle-income countries. Described by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as “a public health emergency in slow motion,” NCDs are receiving attention from the global health community.
In September, the United Nations will hold a high-level summit on non-communicable diseases. Progress on this front will require substantial new funding, which poses challenges and concerns to the global health community.
From June 17 to June 24, experts and professionals working to find funding for NCDs in resource-limited settings are addressing questions around costs, funding, and priority shifting in a virtual panel discussion on GHDonline.org.
This panel is occurring in the Endemic Non-Communicable Diseases community on GHDonline.org. If you are not a member yet, sign up now for free. If you are already a member of GHDonline.org, simply sign in and go to the community to participate.
The panelists include:
- Rachel Nugent, PhD, senior research scientist in the Department of Global Health at University of Washington
- Miriam Rabkin, MD, MPH, Director for Health Systems Strengthening at ICAP Columbia and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
- Sumi Mehta, Senior Technical Manager, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
- Brian Bilchik, MD, Director of ProCor
- Charlanne Burke, Senior Associate, and Robert Marten, Associate at the Rockefeller Foundation
- Kyle Peterson, Managing Director at FSG Social Impact Consultants
- Representatives from The Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network