WHO set to launch second Global Status Report on NCDs 2014

18th January 2015

The World Health Organization (WHO) will launch tomorrow the 'Global Status Report on NCDs 2014'. It is the second in a triennial series tracking worldwide progress on prevention and control of NCDs .

 

                   Monday, 19 January 201511:00  |  Europe Time (Paris, GMT+01:00)  |  2 hr

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The report is framed around the nine voluntary global targets; and provides data on the current situation, identifying bottlenecks as well as opportunities and priority actions for attaining the targets.

Katie Dain, Executive Director of the NCD Alliance, will speak at the high level panel introducing the report tomorrow in Geneva. See programme here