Summary: The aim of the webinar was to present innovative approaches to making insulin and have an academic exchange on different innovations in this area.
“Understanding how from manufacturing we get to a lower cost high-quality product to get it in the hands of people who need it, for me, there is a huge gap between these two elements.“ Molly Lepeska, Project Manager ACCISS Study, Health Action International
Speakers: David Beran, Ilya Vensky, Francois-Xavier Frapaise, Alex Kelly, Julien Potet, Molly Lepeska, Amanda Adler
The 4th UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs offers a critical platform to tackle global challenges in accessing essential medicines, diagnostics, and medical devices for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
The NCD Policy Lab, in collaboration with the NCD Alliance and key NGOs, organized a thematic webinar on 23 January 2025 to convene stakeholders from the NCD community. The primary aim of the webinar was to foster dialogue and collaboration on the barriers to accessing NCD treatments, diagnostics, and technologies. It served as a space to align strategies, share insights, and build momentum in the lead-up to the UN High-Level Meeting, ensuring a unified approach towards achieving equitable access to NCD care globally.
The webinar also introduced a policy brief with recommendations to improve equitable access to NCD treatments developed by the NCD Policy Lab, NCD Alliance and a group of key NGOs, which is available online under resources.
Speakers: David Beran, Joanna Laurson-Doube, Rosalind Turkie, Christophe Rerat, Claudia Martinez, Alison Cox, James Reid, Amy Israel, Vanessa Perbedy, Charles Gore, Beatriz Champagne, Nupur Lalvani, Erika Placella
The aim of the webinar was to share Kyrgyzstan's experience with Health Accounts (HA) and lessons from other countries like Macedonia. This webinar is an opportunity to learn how to adapt and apply HA to improve health spending for non-communicable diseases in your own countries.
“Health Accounts is essential for understanding spending at country, regional and global levels. It is a powerful tool, it can contribute to the monitoring of UHC, it’s not just about numbers, it’s about improving health outcomes“ Baktygul Akkazieva, Health Systems Analyst, WHO
Speakers: Baktygul Akkazieva, Adyl Temirov
A large number of people living with asthma and COPD still lack access to medicines—an urgent and growing public health challenge. The webinar “Increasing Access to Inhaled Medicines for COPD and Asthma” provided an important opportunity to explore practical strategies for improving access in low- and middle-income countries. It also highlighted valuable lessons from diabetes care that could inform future approaches to the COPD agenda. Listen to leading clinical experts, patients and families, and global health advocates discuss the shocking lack of access to inhaled medicines for most of the 652 million people living with COPD and asthma across the world and must can be done about it.
"In the NCD Policy Lab this is what we have been doing for Diabetes, combining deep technical expertise with ongoing knowledge generation, and then translating that science into policy-relevant action", Marina Giachino. The NCD Policy Lab, represented by Marina Giachino, was pleased to be part of this expert dialogue alongside representatives from the World Health Organization, Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), NCD Alliance, and others.
Speakers: Marina Giachino, Guy Marks, Alvaro Cruz, David Alpin, Refiloe Masekela, Heather Zar, Leslie Rae Ferat, José Luis Castro