Improving diabetes outcomes for all, a hundred years on from the discovery of insulin: report of the Global Diabetes Summit

To mark the centenary of the discovery of insulin, and with the support of the University of Toronto, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of Canada co-hosted a Global Diabetes Summit on 14 April 2021. The Summit aimed to raise awareness of diabetes as a global challenge, and to highlight what is being done — and what more needs to be done — to scale-up prevention and treatment efforts within primary health care systems, and across diabetes care services, in a way that is affordable to all.