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GACD Open Funding Call

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)

GACD Open Funding Call

The ninth call for applications under the GACD banner focuses on implementation research proposals, to address management of multiple lon..

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03 Apr 2024
The cultural sensitivities of salt reduction

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)

The cultural sensitivities of salt reduction

Facing Forward is a series of 25 short films and 10 articles from Lebanon, Ghana, Guinea, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Kenya, Thailand and the Pacific I..

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08 Nov 2021
GACD and COVID-19

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)

GACD and COVID-19

The pandemic of COVID-19 continues to spread across the world, bringing with it significant uncertainty. At GACD we are particularly concerned to n..

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23 Oct 2020
UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) joins GACD

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)

UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) joins GACD

GACD as an alliance of international public funding agencies supporting research activities intended to improve the prevention and treatment of chr..

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23 Oct 2020
Tackling disparities in treating depression in low- and middle-income countries

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)

Tackling disparities in treating depression in low- and middle-income countries

The GACD Mental Health Guidelines Working Group, led by Yena Lee and Dr Roger McIntyre at the University of Toronto, aimed to characterise the deve..

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23 Oct 2020
Workshop on the evaluation of scale-up of health systems interventions: what and how? Lessons for scale-up projects

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)

Workshop on the evaluation of scale-up of health systems interventions: what and how? Lessons for scale-up projects

Two GACD funded projects supported in the 2018 GACD Scale Up Call are leading a workshop event at the upcoming World Congress on Public Health 2020..

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23 Oct 2020
Reviewing multimorbidity outcome measures suitable for low-income and middle-income country settings

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)

Reviewing multimorbidity outcome measures suitable for low-income and middle-income country settings

Multimorbidity describes cases where patients have two or more chronic physical or mental health conditions at the same time. It is typically chall..

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23 Oct 2020
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