{"id":97274,"date":"2017-01-18T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?p=97274"},"modified":"2021-02-25T15:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:18:32","slug":"researchers-support-global-ncd-push","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2017\/researchers-support-global-ncd-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Support Global NCD Push"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar sphnews-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">January 18, 2017<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_97276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97276\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2017\/01\/Laing-and-Rockers.png\" alt=\"Laing and Rockers\" class=\"wp-image-97276 size-full\" width=\"400\" height=\"241\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor of Global Health Richard Laing, left, and Assistant Professor of Global Health Peter Rockers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Researchers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cghd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Global Health and Development <\/a>will evaluate a <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/evaluatingaccess-accessaccelerated\/\">partnership of more than 20 biopharmaceutical companies<\/a> to improve non-communicable disease (NCD) care in low- and lower-middle-income countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessaccelerated.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Access Accelerated<\/a> launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 18.\u00a0The first-of-its-kind global initiative is a partnership between the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifpma.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers &amp; Associations (IFPMA)<\/a>, the World Bank, and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC).<\/p>\n<p>Over the next three years, SPH researchers will help monitor progress, measure achievements, and identify opportunities to improve programs that promote access to NCD care and prevention. They will develop the first common framework for measuring and evaluating NCD prevention and care programs and support new, standardized measurements across those programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great opportunity for pharmaceutical company initiatives to be evaluated and receive credit when positive outcomes are shown,\u201d says Professor of Global Health Richard Laing, the evaluation project\u2019s principal investigator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am particularly excited by the commitment to transparent and robust evaluation methods that the companies have agreed to in this initiative\u201d says Assistant Professor of Global Health <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/peter-rockers\/\">Peter Rockers<\/a>, the other principal investigator on the Access Accelerated evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>All aspects of the initiative will be transparent and placed in the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>The co-investigators are Associate Professor of Global Health <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/veronika-wirtz\/\">Veronika Wirtz<\/a>, Associate Professor of Global Health Taryn Vian, Assistant Professor of Global Health <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/nancy-scott\/\">Nancy Scott<\/a>, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Global Health <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/warren-kaplan\/\">Warren Kaplan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"mailto:msamu@bu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Michelle Samuels<\/em><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Center for Global Health and Development to evaluate biopharmaceutical partnership to improve non-communicable disease care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10989,"featured_media":97276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[1895],"bu-publication":[3516],"sphnews-article-category":[3519,3523,3531,3532,3540,3541],"sphnews-topic":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"profile_tax":[292,591,523,276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/97274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10989"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97274"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/97274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192312,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/97274\/revisions\/192312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97274"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=97274"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-article-category?post=97274"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-topic?post=97274"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=97274"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=97274"},{"taxonomy":"profile_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_tax?post=97274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}