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C3 Collaborating for Health believes that only by working together can we make it easier to be healthy.

International breakfast seminars

C3 Collaborating for Health runs a series of international breakfast seminars, which cover a wide range of topics focusing on innovative approaches to preventing chronic disease and promoting healthy living. Each seminar is given by an expert keynote speaker from C3’s international network whose work will interest and inform us in this country and who will enjoy presenting to an audience in London. The seminars are held in the historic House of St Barnabas in the heart of Soho.

We have a full programme for the next few months:

  • Dr Alessandro Demaio (speaking on the power of the next generation in global health: 28 May)
  • Dr Oliver Harrison (tackling NCDs in Abu Dhabi: 11 June – click here >> for an invitation)
  • Professor Sue Parnell and Dr Clare Herrick (NCDs, alcohol and development in South Africa: 16 July).

Contact Egle Paskeviciute [email] for more information about the seminars.

Seminar 20: Behaviour, health and work performance: a simple metric (Nico Pronk, vice president for health management and health science officer, HealthPartners)

  • Slides from the event are available here >>
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Seminar 19: The role of the food and beverage industry in addressing the double burden of nutrition (Janet Voûte, vice president and global head of public affairs head of public affairs at Nestlé)

  • Slides from the event are available here >>
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Seminar 18: A hard look at prevention: reflections and a call for dialogue (Dr Derek Yach, senior vice president at the Vitality Group)

  • Slides from the event are available here >>
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Seminar 17: Managing weight and preventing diabetes: a successful US initiative (Dr Deneen Vojta, senior vice president for business initiatives and clinical affairs at UnitedHealth Group, and chief clinical officer of the Diabetes Prevention and Control Alliance)

  • Slides from the event are available here >>
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Seminar 16: How does chronic disease control stack up? The Copenhagen Consensus 2012 (Dr Rachel Nugent, research scientist in the Department of Global Health at University of Washington, and former deputy director of global health at the Center for Global Development)

  • Slides from the event are available here >>
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Seminar 15: Is the polypill the panacea that will reduce CVD? (Dr Denis Xavier, professor and head of pharmacology at St John’s Medical College, Bangalore; principal investigator of the NIH Center of Excellence, Bangalore):

  • Slides from the event are available here >>
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Seminar 14: Template for change: NIH-funded Centers of Excellence in the developing world (Dr Cristina Rabadán-Diehl, director of the Centers of Excellence initiative at the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and deputy director at the NHLBI Office of Global Health).

  • Slides from the event are available here >>
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Seminar 13: Health in China: the challenge of NCDs (Sian Griffiths, director, School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)

  • Slides from the event will be posted soon
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Seminar 12: Nutrition’s contribution to performance in sport – realities and myths (Roger Clemens, president of the Institute of Food Technologists)

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Seminar 11: Embedding environmental health and sustainability into healthcare (Gary Cohen, co-founder and president of Health Care Without Harm, and Anja Leetz, executive director, HCWH Europe), 23 March 2012:

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Seminar 10: Good health at low cost: can Britain learn from Bangladesh’s low-cost, low-tech solutions to the chronic disease crisis? (Dr Tracey Koehlmoos, health systems scientist with the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, ICDDR,B), 18 October 2011:

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Seminar 9: Women’s cancer and the lessons learned for broader NCD prevention and management (Dr Jacqueline Sherris, vice president of global programmes, PATH), 28 September 2011:

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Seminar 8: Discovery Health’s Vitality programme: Incentives that create healthy behaviour and show health and financial results (Dr Craig Nossel, Discovery Health), 21 July 2011:

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Seminar 7: ‘Community Interventions for Health: an exemplar for how environment influences behaviour’ (Dr Denise Stevens, president of MATRIX Health Solutions), 9 June 2011.

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Seminar 6: ‘Beyond Foresight: can systems thinking help us address complex problems like obesity and chronic disease?‘ (Professor Diane Finegood, professor of biomedical physiology and kinesiology at Simon Fraser University, and executive director of the CAPTURE project), 18 March 2011.

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Seminar 5: ‘New models for chronic disease prevention and management: insights from across the Atlantic’ (Simon Stevens, president of the global health division at the UnitedHealth Group), 18 January 2011.

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Seminar 4: ‘King and the non-communicated diseases’ – preparing for the UN Summit on NCDs (Sir George Alleyne, director emeritus of the Pan American Health Organization), 10 November 2010.

  • Click here >> for a short précis and a video summary of the event
  • A full report of the event is available here >>
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Seminar 3: ‘The rocky road to a global NCD agenda – why Big Tobacco may be smiling‘ (Dr Tom Glynn (Director, Cancer Science and Trends and Director, International Cancer Control, American Cancer Society), 10 September 2010.

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Seminar 2: ‘Should you be eating that much s**t (salt)?’: Professor Bruce Neal (The George Institute, Sydney University), 19 July 2010

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Seminar 1: ‘Healthy places: legacies of the London Olympic Games?’ – Professor Tony Capon (Australian National University), 1 June 2010

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