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Request for Expressions of Interest for a Secretariat Host Institution

The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) seeks a not-for-profit institution of high integrity and good legal standing to host its Secretariat.

Click for further details. Closing date: 14 September, 2010.

Powerful World Alliance of Health Researchers Announces Landmark Pact on Priorities In Fight Against Humanity’s Most Fatal Diseases

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Media coverage of Alliance launch

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.

The World Health Organization (WHO)

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".

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases signatories

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)