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NCDs & Mental Health in Developing Countries: Policy Recommendations following Cambridge Conference

Posted on January 31st, 2012 by
NCDs & Mental Health in Developing Countries: Policy Recommendations following Cambridge Conference


The 2011 UN Summit on NCDs highlighted the pressing need to address NCDs globally, particularly in developing countries which are the hardest hit but have the least resources.
The Cambridge Post-UN Summit Conference on 20th January 2012 explored next steps for the UK by gathering experts from academia and civil society with representatives from the private sector, the media, and government departments.
On the 31/01/2012 The Humanitarian Centre held a Parliamentary reception which aimed to (more...)

Noncommunicable Disease & Mental Health in Developing Countries: Part 1

Posted on January 24th, 2012 by
Noncommunicable Disease & Mental Health in Developing Countries: Part 1

Part 1. The UN NCD summit: Frustrations and Optimism.
By Alexa Zeitz
Photographs by Alice Robinson
“Shocking”. This is what Richard Howitt, MEP for East of England, called the global incidence of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Howitt, who gave the welcome address that opened the Humanitarian Centre’s Post-UN Summit Conference on NCDs and Mental Health in Developing Countries on January 20th, said he saw the U.N. Summit in September 2011 as a “trigger” for global action. He (more...)

3 High-profile Cambridge events bring Noncommunicable Diseases into focus in January

Posted on January 4th, 2012 by
3 High-profile Cambridge events bring Noncommunicable Diseases into focus in January

Prof Barry Popkin, author of "The World Is Fat," will speak at CEDAR on 23 January, on "The Nutrition Transition." The event is one of 3 high-profule events on Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health taking place in Cambridge in January.
As unwieldy as they are, the words “noncommunicable diseases” are on the tip of everyone’s tongues—at least, everyone in health care—and rightly so. The “four main” noncommunicable diseases (cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic lung diseases (more...)

Uganda: New Approaches to Research on the effects of War on Mental Health

Posted on November 7th, 2011 by
Uganda: New Approaches to Research on the effects of War on Mental Health

(c) THRiVE: Dr Kennedy Amone-P'Olak
Dr Kennedy Amone-P’Olak, a THRiVE post-doctoral fellow from the University of Gulu in Uganda  is spearheading an innovative study into the effects of war on the mental health of young people in Uganda. Dr Amone-P’Olak, who is being mentored by researchers at the Department of Psychiatry in Cambridge,explained the details of his study to an audience at the Centre of African Studies on Wednesday 2nd November 2011.
Uganda recently emerged from 20 years of (more...)