The launch of the Alliance has so far been covered by five newswires in seven languages from 100 media websites across 20 countries. See Financial Times, TIME, an editorial by The Lancet, and SciDev.net.
WHO is joining the Alliance as an observer to facillitate Alliance support for implementation of the World Health Assembly-approved "Action Plan for the Global Strategy for prevention and control of Non-communicable Diseases".
The inaugural scientific meeting of the Global Alliance for Chronic Disease, Delhi, November 2009. From left to right, Prof. Sir Leszek Borysiewicz (MRC, UK), Prof. Elizabeth Nabel (NHLBI,USA), Prof. Abdallah Daar (Toronto), Prof Alain Beaudet(Canadian Institutes of Health Research), Prof James Best (Australian National Health MRC), Prof David Matthews (Oxford)
