NCDA Advocacy Briefing for the 140th session of the WHO Executive Board (1.30MB)
This briefing note provides background and key advocacy messages on the NCD Alliance’s main priorities for the 140th WHO Executive Board (EB) in January 2017. The EB will nominate three candidates for the election of WHO Director-General at the 70th World Health Assembly, discuss the preparatory process for the 2018 UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs (2018 UN HLM on NCDs), and consider a number of NCD-related agenda items including the draft implementation plan on ending childhood obesity, the draft action plan on the public health response to dementia, a report and resolution on cancer prevention and control and the health of migrants.
