18 Oct 2020
The George Institute for Global Health Imperial has established a new partnership with the George Institute for Global Health, focusing on the development and evaluation of innovative and sustainable global health systems.
18 Oct 2020
18 Oct 2020
The George Institute for Global Health Digital health apps have the potential to improve health behaviours and outcomes, in an easy and sustainable way. The CONNECT trial aimed to examine the effectiveness of a consumer web-based app linked to primary care electronic health records (EHRs), to find out whether the app would positively impact patients with, or at risk of, cardiovascular disease....
18 Oct 2020
18 Oct 2020
The George Institute for Global Health New research by The George Institute for Health has investigated sex‐disparities in the abandonment of childhood cancer treatment in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) and identified the characteristics of children and their families most disadvantaged by such abandonment.
18 Oct 2020
18 Oct 2020
The George Institute for Global Health People living with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease and diabetes are more vulnerable to becoming severely ill or dying from COVID-19, and yet of all the interventional clinical trials registered globally that relate to COVID-19, less than 4% focus on this high-risk group, an analysis by The George Institute has shown. Read more her...
18 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020
As our climate changes, health systems and health care facilities come under mounting pressure, making it harder for health professionals to keep people healthy from increasingly severe climate impacts. New WHO guidance for Climate Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health Care Facilities provides health professionals and health care facility managers with key tools and interve...
13 Oct 2020
09 Oct 2020
A global social media challenge to get the world moving on mental health is launched today with a call for a massive scale-up in investment in mental health. Ahead of World Mental Health Day on 10 October, the World Health Organization, in collaboration with United for Global Mental Health and the World Federation for Mental Health, are encouraging people from all countries to support a global...
09 Oct 2020
02 Oct 2020
This webinar will provide more details about the new resources in HEARTS that aim to strengthen and provide global guidance for CVD risk reduction programs to prevent and control cardiovascular disease and its risk factors.
02 Oct 2020
02 Oct 2020
People living with chronic diseases – otherwise known as Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) – are at greater risk of becoming severely ill or dying from COVID-19. The confluence of these two pandemics – the ‘slow-motion pandemic of NCDs’ – has created a dangerous double burden of disease.
02 Oct 2020
02 Oct 2020
There is increasing evidence that Africans living with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension and diabetes are more likely to suffer severe cases of COVID-19 and die. Read more here.
02 Oct 2020
02 Oct 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF today signed a new collaborative framework which will accelerate joint public health efforts that put the most marginalized and vulnerable populations first. Read more here.
02 Oct 2020
02 Oct 2020
The video brings together some of George Institute's experts and partners around the world to consider the importance and impact of COVID-19 on NCD prevention and management in different contexts, and the key research questions emerging as a consequence.
02 Oct 2020
02 Oct 2020
WHO Civil Society Working on NCDs - Exposing industry interference and conflict of interest before and during COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on health-harming industry tactics and partnerships with governments, CSOs and UN agencies and other stakeholders that challenge coherence in NCD policies and actions due to conflict of interest and potential for undue influence in polic...
02 Oct 2020
