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The GACD has extended its membership to the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) country of Thailand.
The GACD has extended its membership to the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) country of Thailand. At a recent signing ceremony in Bangkok (6 November), GACD chair elect & President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Dr Alain Beaudet welcomed the alliance’s new research partner.
Through Thailand’s Health Systems Research Institute, the country will join the GACD’s nine other members, engaging in future joint research projects aimed at tackling chronic diseases.
According to a survey by the International Health Policy Programme, the top five chronic non-communicable diseases in the Thailand, causing death in 2009 were related to drinking and smoking habits, heart disease, road accidents and cancers respectively.