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NCD Voices in the Decade of Action - Transforming Food Systems to Build Back Better
World Health Organization | 16 Dec 2020
This webinar in NCD Voices in the Decade of Action focused on Transforming Food Systems to Build Back Better. Here we unpackaged the interlinkages between food systems and NCD, highlighting the common elements and opportunities this brings as we develop healthier and more sustainable food systems.
Speakers included:
- Dr Naoko Yamamoto, Assistant Director-General, UHC and Healthier Populations, WHO
- Dr Francesco Branca, Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO
- Dr Svetlana Axelrod, Director, Global NCD Platform, WHO
- Ms Patty Fong, Program Director, Climate and Health & Wellbeing Global Alliance for the Future
- Professor Harshpal Singh Sachdev, Senior Consultant in Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology, Sitaram Bhartia, Institute of Science and Research.
- Ms Lana Weidgenant, Climate Activist, Vice-Chair of Action Track 2, 2021 UN Food Systems Summit.
- Ms Maureen Muketha, Founder Tule Vyema, Fellow Young African Leaders Initiative.
