Noncommunicable Diseases

Children play outside the Elder's Qammaq in downtown Iqaluit, Nunavut.

The Heavy Toll of Empty Calories: Nutrition as a Focus for Inuit Health

Croatia's gift to the UN, in the UN HQ sculpture garden

The Big Takeway from #UNGA73: Enough Inaction

Michael R. Bloomberg at the One Planet Summit 2018

Michael R. Bloomberg: Millions Don't Have to Die from NCDs

Members of the NCDFREE youth

We’re the Bold, Innovative NCD Solution You’re Looking For

A London school student eats a hamburger and chips as part of his lunch which was brought from a fast food shop near his school, on October 5, 2005 in London, England.

The Big Picture on Obesity

Audience members peruse a new WHO report on NCDs at its May 20 release in Geneva. (Image: Courtesy of Bloomberg Philanthropies)

WHO’s Different Calculus on NCDs: Saving Lives… and Money

Students hold up no smoking signs to support World No Tobacco Day at a primary school in northern China's Hebei province, on May 30, 2016. STR/AFP/Getty Images

Wanted: A Watchdog to STOP Big Tobacco in Its Tracks

NIH Natcher Building Bethesda, MD

Fogarty's 50 Years and New Frontiers

José Luis Castro, president and CEO of Vital Strategies

Not the Starbucks of Global Health: Vital Strategies Builds From Within

Blazing Injustice: The Hidden Crisis of Burn Injuries

Richard Besser, MD, President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Spreading the Health

A DNA sculpture in deCODE Genetics Reykjavik headquarters. The company says it has all the information needed to accurately identify almost every single BRCA mutation carrier in Iceland.

The Right Not to Know: When Ignorance is Bliss but Deadly