We are pleased to announce distinguished panellists and speakers joining us for the upcoming NCD Hard Talks webinar being held on 17 March 2021 at 13:00 CET, titled “Shifting the paradigm: NCDs, economics, and the push toward well-being.”
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NCD Hard Talks speakers and panellists
Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University, United States of America
Professor Richard Wilkinson, Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology, University of Nottingham Medical School, United Kingdom
Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland
Ms Veronica Shiroya, Doctoral student, the Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany
H.E. Dr Hussein Al Rand, Under Secretary, Ministry of Health, United Arab Emirates
Ms Saila Ruuth, State Secretary to Minister of Social Affairs and Health Aino-Kaisa Pekonen, Finland
Mr Mark Pearson, Deputy Director to the Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate, OECD
Dr Bente Mikkelsen, Director Department for NCDs, WHO, Switzerland
Dr Hope Corbin, Associate Professor, Health and Community Studies, Western Washington University, United States of America
Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab, Deputy Director General, WHO, Switzerland
Dr Naoko Yamamoto, Assistant Director-General, Healthier Populations, WHO, Switzerland
Dr Rüdiger Krech, Director, Health Promotion Department, WHO, Switzerland
Moderated by
Dr Mihály Kökény, University of Debrecen, Faculty of Public Health in Hungary, WHO consultant
Dr Gaya Gamhewage, Head of Learning & Capacity Development, WHO Health Emergencies Programme
We hope you can join us this Wednesday – and looking forward to a timely and rich discussion.
Kind regards on behalf of the WHO Department for NCDs and the Department of Health Promotion