by Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo | 17 October 2018
Last week I attended a talk by Dr. John Nkengasong, Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The talk was given at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and gave a brief overview of the Africa CDC and its goals. The idea...
by Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo | 24 September 2018
In light of this week’s upcoming UN High Level meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), it may be useful to revisit last year’s Lancet Global Health discussion on reframing NCDs (Allen, 2017; Allen & Feigl, 2017c; Horton, 2017). The debate highlighted a number...
by Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo | 12 September 2018
In late April, I attended and presented at the Ghana Physicians and Surgeons Foundation 16th Annual Conference in Los Angeles, USA (http://www.ghanaphysicians.org/2018-gpsf-conference-at-la/) whose theme this year was ‘Non-Communicable Disease: Prevention and...
