Several of the world’s most eminent health scientists and organisations have published the Grand Challenges in Chronic Non-communicable Diseases - an authoritative list of the 20 most important challenges today to restraining and reversing the toll of these debilitating and deadly illnesses.
The list of Grand Challenges is accompanied by research priorities for meeting them, drawn from the study data and finalised by leading world health figures guiding the project. The initiative’s leaders say their goals are “to galvanise the health, science and public policy communities into action on this epidemic,” and to foster global debate, support and funding.
Along with the Oxford Health Alliance, leading partners behind the project are the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, the Medical Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the National Institutes of Health.
- The Grand Challenges are grouped under six broad goals:
- Reorient health systems;
- Mitigate health impacts of poverty and urbanisation;
- Engage businesses and community;
- Modify risk factors;
- Enhance economic, legal and environmental policies; and
- Raise public and political awareness.
To encourage adoption of the Grand Challenges and Goals, the Grand Challenges Global Partnership is being established with a secretariat at the Oxford Health Alliance, funded for the first five years by its members. The Partnership is intended as a platform for collaboration of global research funding organisations.
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