Time to deliver: report of the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on NCDs

Sania Nishtar; Sauli Niinistö; Maithripala Sirisena; Tabaré Vázquez; Veronika Skvortsova; Adolfo Rubinstein; Festus Gontebanye Mogae; Pirkko Mattila; Seyyed Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi; Sicily Kariuki; José Narro Robles; Isaac F Adewole; Adboulaye Diouf Sarr; Kim Yong Gan; Saia Ma'u Piukala; Abdul Rahman Bin Mohammed Al Owais; Eric Hargan; George Alleyne; Ala Alwan; Arnaud Bernaert; Michael Bloomberg; Katie Dain; Tom Frieden; Vikram Harshad Patel; Annette Kennedy; Ilona Kickbusch; Commissioners of the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on NCDs

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31258-3

Time to deliver: report of the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on NCDs

Lancet. 2018 Jul 21;392(10143):245-252. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31258-3. Epub 2018 Jun 1.

Authors

Sania Nishtar¹, Sauli Niinistö², Maithripala Sirisena³, Tabaré Vázquez⁴, Veronika Skvortsova⁵, Adolfo Rubinstein⁶, Festus Gontebanye Mogae⁷, Pirkko Mattila⁸, Seyyed Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi⁹, Sicily Kariuki¹⁰, José Narro Robles¹¹, Isaac F Adewole¹², Adboulaye Diouf Sarr¹³, Kim Yong Gan¹⁴, Saia Ma'u Piukala¹⁵, Abdul Rahman Bin Mohammed Al Owais¹⁶, Eric Hargan¹⁷, George Alleyne¹⁸, Ala Alwan¹⁹, Arnaud Bernaert²⁰, Michael Bloomberg²¹, Katie Dain²², Tom Frieden²³, Vikram Harshad Patel²⁴, Annette Kennedy²⁵, Ilona Kickbusch²⁶; Commissioners of the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on NCDs

Affiliations

¹ Former Federal Minister, Pakistan, and founding President, Heartfile. Electronic address: sania@heartfile.org.
² President, Finland.
³ President, Sri Lanka.
⁴ President, Uruguay.
⁵ Minister of Health Care, Russia.
⁶ Minister of Health, Argentina.
⁷ former President, Botswana, and former Co-Chair, UNSG-appointed High-level Panel on Access to Medicine.
⁸ Minister of Social Affairs and Health, Finland.
⁹ Minister of Health and Medical Education, Iran.
¹⁰ Cabinet Secretary for Health, Kenya.
¹¹ Minister of Health, Mexico.
¹² Minister of Health, Nigeria.
¹³ Minister of Health and Social Care, Senegal.
¹⁴ Minister for Health, Singapore.
¹⁵ Minister of Health, Tonga.
¹⁶ Minister of Health and Prevention, United Arab Emirates.
¹⁷ Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, USA.
¹⁸ former Director Emeritus, PAHO, and former UNSG Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean.
¹⁹ Regional Director Emeritus, WHO/EMRO, and former Assistant Director-General for NCDs and Mental Health, WHO.
²⁰ Head, Global Health and Healthcare, World Economic Forum.
²¹ founder, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Global Ambassador for NCDs and Injuries, WHO.
²² Chief Executive Officer, NCD Alliance, and Co-Chair, WHO Civil Society Working Group for the third High-level Meeting on NCDs.
²³ President and Chief Executive Officer, Resolve, Vital Strategies, and former Director, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
²⁴ Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA.
²⁵ President, International Council of Nurses.
²⁶ Director, Global Health Institute, Graduate Institute.

PMID: 29866374
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31258-3

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MeSH terms

Advisory Committees
Global Health*
Health Policy
Health Priorities*
Humans
International Cooperation*
Mental Disorders / epidemiology
Mental Disorders / therapy*
Noncommunicable Diseases / epidemiology
Noncommunicable Diseases / therapy*
World Health Organization