Cities & Hassles: Gamifying city planning to improve health and wellbeing
City planning — or a lack thereof — can significantly affect people’s health and wellbeing, particularly where noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are concerned. A lack [...]
Feasting for our future as millennials table solutions
This week, I had the pleasure of sitting with Jessica Renzella - an Australian PhD student with Oxford University and a budding global health shaper. She [...]
Millennials are saving the world one hashtag at a time
Something needs to be done about the state of our health, and millennials have the means, the workforce and the willpower to do it. [...]
Can we eat our way to a healthier future?
The United Nations General Assembly has declared the start of the Decade of Action on Nutrition. Jamie Oliver calls it a Food Revolution. The EAT Initiative are challenging [...]
Confronting a Global Epidemic of Obesity and Disease: An Interview with Jack Fisher
NCDFREE is a global nonprofit and social movement launched in 2013 that is committed to expanding awareness on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and the urgency they [...]
Eat.think.share.solve – #feastofideas
This October, NCDFREE has launched #feastofideas, a one month global effort to crowdsource thousands of solutions to our biggest food-related health challenges from people’s kitchens, dining rooms, local [...]
Action, Advocacy and Accountability in the Global NCD Effort Beyond 2015
This week on PLOS Translation Global Health, we hear from NCDFREE’s Jack and Juliette on the recent inaugural Global NCD Alliance Forum and youth [...]
Millennial and proud: How youth will shape Global Health in 2030
Dynamic Health Communicator, Master of Global Health graduate and Global Coordinator of NCDFREE for Europe & Africa, Jack Fisher, shares his optimism for the [...]
Our Global Food Challenges: The Decade to Act
When the United Nations launched its new Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 – the blueprint to guide national agendas and political policies for the [...]
World Health Day 2016 – Diabetes
April 7 is World Health Day and in 2016 the focus is on diabetes. To celebrate, the team from NCDFREE have put together this [...]