SEATTLE, WA SUNDAY JUNE 14 2009 Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases signatories, standing back row left to right, Depei Liu (China), Warwick Anderson (Australia), Abdallah Daar (University of Toronto), Stig Pramming (Oxford Health Alliance), and Leszek Borysiewicz (UK), front row seated left to right, Dr. Elizabeth Nabel (USA) and Alain Beaudet (Canada).
The logo visualizes the statement from the 2007 paper in Nature where the 19 authors of the "Grand Challenges," said chronic non-communicable diseases accounts for over 60% of deaths worldwide.