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Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health

The GACD recently published a paper in Nature (July 7th) on Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health. GACD and NIMH were the main sponsors of this study. To download the issue of Nature please click here.

GACD Secretariat advertising Executive Director position.

UCL and the Alliance are conducting an international search to appoint an Executive Director of the Alliance Secretariat. For more details please visit the UCL Recruitment website. The closing date for applications is 5th August.

UCL chosen as host for the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Secretariat

The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) today announced that UCL will host the organisation’s secretariat, working to curb chronic diseases such as stroke, diabetes, chronic lung disease and heart disease throughout the world. The GACD brings together six of the worlds foremost health agencies, collectively managing an estimated 80% of all public health research funding worldwide, to collaborate in the critical battle against chronic, non-communicable (not infectious) diseases.

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Sarah Ball (UCL Institute for Global Health), Professor David Price (UCL Vice Provost - Research), Professor Malcolm Grant (UCL President and Provost), Professor Anne Johnson (UCL Institute for Global Health), Professor Michael Worton (UCL Vice Provost - Academic & International), Professor Abdallah Daar (GACD Chair), Professor Anthony Costello (UCL Institute for Global Health).