Noncommunicable Diseases in the Developing World: Addressing Gaps in Global Policy and Research

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments We thank our fellow members of the NCD Working Group for their engagement and sound advice: Sir George Alleyne (former director, Pan American Health Organization; University of the West Indies; and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University), Robert Black (Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University), Felicia Marie Knaul (Harvard Global Equity Initiative), Margaret E. Kruk (Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University), Richard Laing (World Health Organization), Soeren Mattke (RAND Corporation), Sania Nishtar (Heartfile Pakistan), Tom Quinn (Center for Global Health, Johns Hopkins University), Kenji Shibuya (Tokyo University), Brian WhiteGuay (Université de Montreal), and Prashant Yadav (University of Michigan). We thank Smita Baruah and Craig Moscetti, formerly with the Global Health Council, for their collaboration during the early phases of this project. At Johns Hopkins, project managers Uttam Bajwa and Rachel Whitehead have been indispensable , along with Tina Flores and Kathy Chase-Gaudreau at Rabin Martin. They provided much of the day-to-day support that made this project and publication possible. James Hospedales (then at PAHO), Mario Ottiglio (IFPMA), Alec van Gelder (Astra Zeneca) and Tonya Villafana (World Bank) supported the consultations of the NCD Working Group and offered important insights of their own along the way. We thank the speakers and audience at a seminar we organized in February 2012 at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, for their critical reactions. Kelley Squazzo and her colleagues at Johns Hopkins University Press believed in this book. We also gratefully acknowledge the support of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations, which sponsored a grant to Johns Hopkins University. Sponsored Research at Hopkins handled the grant with its customary combination of care and efficiency. This page intentionally left blank ...