From yurts to skyscrapers, horseback to automobile, Mongolia is at an exciting moment in its history. NCDFREE is interviewed live, on radio ABC Asia.
A few weeks back, at the World Health Assembly, World Bank President Dr Jim Kim said the world is at a crossroads when it comes to health. A defining moment in history, from which our future trajectoryâ¦
Young change-maker Byamba, talking to a nomadic couple in the Mongolian countryside… https://www.facebook.com/NCDFREE
An inspiring rural nomadic family, here in Mongolia. https://www.facebook.com/NCDFREE
Visiting a rural, nomadic family in Mongolia - and their granddaughter who is training to become a doctor. Inspiring stories! https://www.facebook.com/NCDFREE
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Last week, the World Health Assembly (#WHA66) was held at WHO Headquarters in Geneva… Find our more, and read the newly published declaration!
"We stand at a moment of exceptional possibility. A moment when global health and development goals that long seemed unattainable have moved within our reach. A moment, also, when dangers of unprecedented magnitude threaten the future of humankind. A moment that calls us to shed resignation and routine, to rekindle the ambition that has marked the defining chapters of global public health."
Jim Kim, World Bank, WHA13
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"Governance challenges will continue to complicate our best efforts to respond to urgent, complex, and serious global health problems. Any effort to strengthen the global health system will require recognition and management of these tensions so that the system can better face the realities of interdependence in the 21st century."
Julio Frenk, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., and Suerie Moon, M.P.A., Ph.D. for NEJM.
Sweden makes Global Health sexy… Lessons to be learnt.
Mobile phones and global health… (click through photo)
