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Below is the final agenda for the OxHA summit.

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Thursday 16 April

Morning

09:00Registration  
09:30Welcome and introduction

Professor David Matthews, OxHA Board Member

09:45

Session 1: The three risk factors

Tobacco: Dr Samira Asma, CDC Global Tobacco Control Office on Smoking and Health, USA

Diet: Dr Susan Jebb, MRC Head of Nutrition

Physical activity: Dr Michael Pratt, Chief, Physical Activity and Health Branch, CDC 

Chair: Dr Fiona Adshead, Director, Chronic Diseases and Health
Promotion, WHO

10:30Tea / coffee 
11:00Session 2: Research 

11:00

Community Interventions for Health
Methodology, early results and lessons learned

Chair: Professor Stephen MacMahon, The George Institute, Australia

Dr Denise Stevens and Fiona Wong, MATRIX Public Health Solutions

Professor K.R. Thankappan,
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute, India

12:00Ovations Chronic Disease Initiative

Dr Richard Smith, Executive Director, Ovations Chronic Disease Initiative

Professor Alejandro Cravioto, Executive Director, ICDDR,B, Bangladesh

12:30Lunch 

Afternoon

13.30Session 3: Action in progress 

Chair: Professor Siân Griffiths, OBE, Director, School of Public Health, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

13:30The polypill story 

Professor Sir Nicholas Wald, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, UK

Professor Denis Xavier, St John’s Research Institute, Bangalore

Dr Anthony Rodgers, Professorial Fellow, George Institute for International Health, Australia

14:45International NGOs

Chair: Ms Lise Kingo, Executive Vice-President and Chief of Staffs, Novo Nordisk A/S

Dr Tom Glynn, Cancer Science and Trends Director, International Cancer Control, American Cancer Society

Ms Ann Keeling, CEO, International Diabetes Federation

Dr Jeya Wilson, CEO, World Heart Federation

15:30Tea / coffee 
16:00Session 3: Action in progress, cont. 
 

What role is industry playing?
Contributions from the food, insurance and pharmaceutical industries 

Chair: Dr Diane Finegood, Executive Director, The CAPTURE Project, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer

Mr Viggo Birch, European Vice President and Managing Director, Novo Nordisk UK and Ireland

Mr Tal Gilbert, Head of Research & Development, PruHealth, UK

Mr Jonathan Horrell, Director of Corporate Affairs, Kraft Foods UK and Ireland, and business4Life steering
committee member

17:00Session 4: Resources

Chair: Dr Derek Yach,
Vice-President of Global Health Policy, PepsiCo, and OxHA Board Member

17:00

Trends in spending on chronic diseases relative to other global health issues
Comments by David Stuckler and Rajaie Batniji, who recently published a Lancet paper on global health spending 

Dr Rachel Nugent, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC

17:45

Grand Challenges / Global Partnership
Progress on the Grand Challenges and global engagement

Professor Stig Pramming
18:15Concluding remarksDr Derek Yach

Evening  

19:00

Grand dinner, Trinity College, Oxford, hosted by Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford University, and OxHA Chairman