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At a recent board meeting (4-5 December 2012) the GACD (Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases) announced its intention to fund research projects for the second round of studies under the GACD.
The board agreed that members of the Alliance would issue a call for research proposals addressing the “prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes, with a focus on implementation/intervention research in low and middle-income countries, low income populations in high income countries and aboriginal communities within Canada and Australia for a launch within approximately 6 months with funding commencing in 2014.
Further details of the research call will be announced via the website www.gacd.org shortly.
Editor’s note: The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) is a group of major international public health research funders. We aim to inspire and inform policy and practice to reduce the global health burden of Chronic or lifestyle diseases, through high quality applied research. The GACD was established in 2009 to support clear priorities for a coordinated research effort into the growing health crisis of NCDs (non-communicable diseases), which is now reaching world epidemic proportions. Its International Secretariat was founded in January 2012 and is based at UCL’s Institute for Global Health.