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CAN Mezzanine, 7-14 Great Dover Street, London SE1 4YR
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Start: 16 March 2018 at 8.30 am (breakfast & registration from 8 am)
End: 16 March 2018 at 10.30 am
Will 2018 be the turning point?
At this, our first C3 International Breakfast Seminar of 2018, we are delighted to welcome Robert Beaglehole, who is a leader of the global work on NCD prevention. Robert is Emeritus Professor at the University of Auckland and Chair of the Lancet NCD Action Group and he will be talking about Making 2018 the turning point for NCDs.
This year sees the third UN High-level meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the first since the introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals, which have given more prominence to NCDs and their prevention than has ever been seen on the international stage. As global levels of obesity continue to rise and while too many people continue to die too young from heart and lung diseases, cancers and diabetes, what opportunities are there to really build on the momentum that we are seeing in the prevention of NCDs?
About the speaker: Robert Beaglehole
Robert Beaglehole trained in medicine, cardiology, epidemiology and public health in New Zealand, England and the USA before becoming a public health physician. He was Professor of Community Health at the University of Auckland, New Zealand from 1988-1999. In 2000 he joined the staff of the World Health Organization and was engaged in a variety of public health roles. Between 2004 and 2007 he directed the Department of Chronic Disease and Health Promotion. In 2007 he returned to New Zealand and is now an independent global public health practitioner with a focus on the prevention and control of NCDs in New Zealand, the Pacific and globally. He founded ASH in 1982 and now chairs the organisation which actively supports the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal. He is Professor Emeritus of the University of Auckland and chairs the Lancet NCD Action Group.
Join us
We hope that you will be able join us from 8:30am until 10:30am on Friday 16 March at CAN Mezzanine, 7-14 Great Dover Street, London SE1 4YR.
There will be opportunities for networking and a healthy breakfast will be available from 8:00am.
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