World Health Organization
Reporting on the world’s biggest killers: a journalist’s guide to covering noncommunicable diseases
Guide
08 Oct 2025
12 Nov 2018
This report is the outcome of the Working Group convened by the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (GCM/NCD). The Working Group was tasked with providing recommendations to the WHO Director-General on ways and means of encouraging countries to realize their commitments to call on the private sector to strengthen its contribution to the prevention and control of NCDs.