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PHD Power at the GACD
Newly graduated Professors Claire Johnson and Felix Limbani talk about their experiences of working on a GACD Phd.
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Economist Guest Blog - are Latin America's Cancer Control plans working?
This is a guest blog post by Martin Koehring, Senior Editor & Global Editorial Lead, Healthcare, Thought Leadership, The Economist Intelligence Unit.
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Australia to fund landmark projects into mental health
Australia’s NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council) announce funding of four extensive projects into mental health conditions.
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European Commission outlines its GACD Hypertension Scale Up Call
EC to fund scale up into Hypertension
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Japan announce successful GACD Mental Health grantees
AMED – Japan’s Health Research Agency are investing in two GACD projects.
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Canada and New Zealand announce successful GACD mental health research grants
CIHR & HRC New Zealand announce GACD mental health call awardees.
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GACD Annual Report 2017 newly published
Read the 2017 annual report here
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Researcher Spotlight - Constantine Vardavas
Lung disease, NCDs as told by EC funded GACD researcher
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Media coverage and press releases
A collection of press releases and articles about the GACD from partner organisations and the media.
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GACD spotlight on Maria Lazo-Porras
Dr Maria Lazo-Porras is a physician and epidemiologist and has working as a research scientist in CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Disease – Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru.
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GACD welcomes New Zealand
New Zealand’s Health Research Council has been welcomed as the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases’ fourteenth member.
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GACD lung diseases research programme co-chairs
Congratulations to Kamran Siddiqi (United Kingdom) and Muralidhar Kulkarni (India) on their election as Co-chairs of the GACD Lung Diseases Research Programme.
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Developing countries are ill-equipped to manage the growing chronic-disease burden
As World Health Day is celebrated around the globe on April 7th, the rising burden of chronic diseases in developing countries must become a priority for global health policy.
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How can research stem the tide of the NCD pandemic?
On World Health Day (7 April 2017) governments should consider long-term investments in high-quality peer-reviewed implementation research on tackling non-communicable diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic diseases, in health systems.
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GACD welcomes new Chair for 2017
The Board of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) has welcomed its new Chair, Professor Glenda Gray
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GACD spotlight on Greg Fox
Dr Greg Fox is a respiratory physician and epidemiologist from Sydney University, with a research interest in lung health in resource-limited settings.
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GACD mental health call open
The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) has opened its fourth research call.
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Spotlight on Professor Nancy Edwards
The GACD’s Management Committee plays a critical role in developing the nuts and bolts of the Alliance’s output. The thirteen members from each agency across the globe meet monthly by teleconference and shape the output of our work.
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GACD spotlight on Evon Okidi
Evon has been working on chronic diseases research, primarily hypertension and diabetes studies, for over two years and her research interests are in missing data and causal inference methods.
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GACD spotlight on Deksha Kapoor
Deksha Kapoor is a Research Scientist at the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India.