The Oxford Health Alliance’s (OxHA) 7th annual summit will take place in New Delhi, India, on 19 and 20 April 2010.
The meeting will bring together world-leading academics, government representatives, health professionals, young people, NGOs and corporate executives, and will focus on the efforts of researchers and businesses to tackle the global epidemic of chronic disease, and foster a collaborative approach to solving problems with new thinking.
The latest draft agenda can be found here >>
The summit is organised by C3 Collaborating for Health, a newly established organisation, working closely with the Oxford Health Alliance, and headed up by former OxHA Director Christine Hancock.
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The meeting will be hosted by Dr Prabhakaran, Executive Director of the Centre of Chronic Disease Control, India, and David Matthews, Coordinating Director of the Oxford Health Alliance. The meeting will be facilitated by Christine Hancock, Director of C3 Collaborating for Health.
The OxHA Summit is by invitation only and there are a limited number of places available; however, if you are interested in attending we would be very pleased to hear from you. Please contact Hester Rice [email].
The proposed agenda includes:
- Presentations on the Institute of Medicine Report on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease. The report will be made public early next year and this meeting will help to build on the recommendations.
- Evidence of real improvements by businesses who are addressing health problems with their workforces, their customers and their products.
- Evidence from intervention research sites in India and the region.
- A debate about the role of medicine (polypill), surgery (bariatric) as compared with public-health interventions.
- Follow-up from the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen: exploring the links between health and the environment.
- Millennium Development Goals; should they include chronic disease?