WHA Policy Scrum Series:
Non-communicable Diseases
& Nutrition
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015
11:00 AM EST
Welcome &
Introductions
CHRISTINE SOW, GLOBAL HEALTH COUNCIL
Non-Communicable
Diseases (NCDs)
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JUSTIN KOESTER, SENIOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
SPECIALIST & CO-CHAIR, NCD ROUNDTABLE
MEDTRONIC, INC.
Justin Koester
Senior International Relations Specialist
Co-Chair, NCD Roundtable
March 25, 2015
Serving Healthcare Systems Around the World
160+
Number of countries
operating in
85,000+
Employees
Greater
China
Americas
Europe,
Middle East,
& Africa
56
53k+
Research
centers
Asia Pacific
Medtronic is a multi-national company
structured into four regions.
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84
Manufacturing
facilities
Patents
The Medtronic Mission: A Shared Sense of Purpose
contribute to human welfare…alleviate pain,
“ To
restore health, and extend life…
To direct our growth in the areas of maximum
strength and ability…to continuously build on these
areas through education and knowledge…
To strive without reserve for the greatest reliability
and quality…to be recognized as a company of
dedication, honesty, integrity, and service…
To make a fair profit…
To recognize the personal worth of employees…
To maintain good citizenship as a company.”
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Diverse Technologies
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Spine
Neuromodulation
Surgical
Technologies
Surgical
Solutions
Respiratory &
Patient Care
Vascular
Therapies
Aortic &
Peripheral Vascular
Structural Heart
Transcatheter Valves
Cardiac Rhythm
Management
Diabetes
Kanghui
Orthopaedics
Coronary
Angioplasty/Stents
Primary Comments for WHA 2015
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Robust NCD-specific Agenda
Primary advocacy opportunity to continue pushing WHO-specific agenda items
Bank-shot opportunity to push on Sustainable Development Goal priorities
Major non-NCD discussion to watch:
– Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors (WHO Reform)
WHA Agenda for NCDs
• 13.1 Outcome of the Second International Conference on
Nutrition
• 13.2 Maternal, infant and young child nutrition: development
of the core set of indicators
• 13.3 Update on the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity
• 13.4 Follow-up to the 2014 high-level meeting of the United
Nations General Assembly to undertake a comprehensive
review and assessment of the progress achieved in the
prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases
• 13.5 Global status report on violence and health
• 13.6 Global burden of epilepsy and need for a coordinated
action at the country level to address its health, social and
public knowledge implications
But there are many other adjacent/relevant agenda items
• Health Systems:
– Strengthening emergency and essential surgical care and anesthesia as a component of universal health
coverage
– Global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property
• Life Course
– Adolescents and Health
– Women and Health
• Global Coordination Mechanism and Interagency Task Force (GCM) for NCDs Launch
– Recent announcement of appointees
– First semi-open dialogue occurring in Geneva on April 20-21
NCD Progress Reports
• Comprehensive mental health action plan
• Comprehensive and coordinated efforts for the management of autism spectrum
disorders
• Disabling hearing loss
Confidential
Round of Questions
The topic of NCDs encompasses a wide variety of issues. One such issue is newborn screening. Congenital
conditions are a significant source of newborn death and disability, many of which can be screened for and
treated at birth. However, global strategies like the EWEC and the ENAP have failed to address the need to
include newborn screening as a critical element to ending preventable child death and disability, and our
Medco colleague didn't mention it. What would help put NBS on the global health/child survival agenda?
Nutrition
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JENNIFER RIGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY & PARTNERSHIPS
1,000 DAYS
KATE EARDLEY, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER, CHILD HEALTH
WORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL
Nutrition at the 2015 World
Health Assembly
Kate Eardley-World Vision International
Jennifer Rigg-1,000 Days
Background
• Executive Board (Jan 2015)
http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB136/B136_DIV3-en.pdf
• WHA 2014: Report on Global Nutrition Targets
http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA67/A67_15-en.pdf
• Outcomes from Second International
Conference on Nutrition, November 2014
http://www.fao.org/3/a-ml542e.pdf http://www.fao.org/3/a-mm215e.pdf
Agreed at 2012 WHA
Global Nutrition
Targets 2025: Policy
brief series and target
setting tool launched
November 2014
Policy briefs at:
http://www.who.int/nu
trition/publications/glo
baltargets2025_policybr
ief_overview/en/
Nutrition on the 2015 WHA agenda
13. Noncommunicable diseases
13.1 Outcome of the Second International Conference on
Nutrition
- Likely to lead to a decision or resolution
13.2 Maternal, infant & young child nutrition: development of
the core set of indicators
- Could lead to a decision to approve revised framework
13.3 Update on the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity
Other agenda items of note for WHA
14. Promoting health through the life course
• 14.1 Monitoring the achievement of the healthrelated MDGs
• 14.2 Health in the post-2015 development
agenda
• 14.3 Adolescent health
Revision of Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s
and Adolescents’ Health is an opportunity to
advocate for nutrition to feature as a priority –
number of expected GS related side events at WHA
Proposed areas of action for GHC members
• Advocacy needed around implementation of
ICN2 outcome documents and the
recommended Decade of Action on Nutrition
• Looking ahead to 2016 and the Nutrition for
Growth Summit, hosted by Govt of Brazil
around the Rio Summer Olympics
• Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative with WHO,
UNICEF & others – new action to
accelerate progress on breastfeeding
Proposed areas of action for GHC members
Post-2015 framework being negotiated before,
during & after WHA 2015
• Nutrition indicators – action needed to expand
suggested indicators to include all 6 WHA targets,
women’s dietary diversity & nutrition budget
• Request WHO to provide additional guidance &
support for global and national processes,
particularly in relation to indicators
• Extrapolation of 2025 global nutrition targets
urgently required
• Call for a data revolution in nutrition
(in support of Global Nutrition Report)
How can GHC members get involved?
• Monitor WHA website for papers to be uploaded
http://apps.who.int/gb/e/e_wha68.html
• Draft or input into GHC statements
• Write blogs on nutrition, tweet, engage with GHC members
who attend WHA
• Comment on Interim Report of the Commission on Ending
Childhood Obesity http://www.who.int/end-childhood-obesity/interim-report-forcomment/en/ March-June 2015
Round of Questions
From your conversation with WHO-Nutrition, do you know if there will be any discussion on the guidelines for
the appropriate marketing of complementary foods?
Is there collaboration with the Global Strategy for Diet, Physical Activity, and Health?
Are there groups other than mothers & children being discussed around nutrition e.g. older persons, people
with feeding/swallowing difficulties, people with chronic health problems or specific dietary needs etc.?
From your knowledge and talks with WHO, what age do you think will be the focus for nutrition interventions in
the coming years - will it stay with the first 1,000 days and critical 0-2 year age range, or do you think there will
be expansion to adolescents or adults?
Do you know if Mexico is intending to do a formal or informal event-- as they are leading the way on nutrition
and obesity reduction interventions nationally?
With climate change affecting growing patterns and seasons, including drought and flood, for example, flooding
recently in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, what cross sector collaboration is happening or could be
strengthened?
Next Steps:
Toward WHA 2015
CHRISTINE SOW, GLOBAL HEALTH COUNCIL
GHC at WHA
Submitting WHA Statements: http://globalhealth.org/wp-
content/uploads/GUIDELINES-FOR-SUBMISSION-OF-STATEMENTS-TO-THEWORLD-HEALTH-ASSEMBLY-PROCEEDINGS-FINAL.pdf
GHC Delegation: E-mail [email protected]
Communications about access to the official meeting, hotel room
blocks, WHA policy scrums, side events, & more
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which will be available online.
Thank You for Attending!
Next WHA Policy Scrum
Wednesday, April 8 @ 11:00 AM
Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)