October 15, 2025 — The World Medical Association (WMA) has just taken a significant step forward in how the world’s medical community understands and responds to obesity. Its newly adopted Statement on Obesity, approved this week at the WMA General Assembly in Porto, reframes obesity not as a social or lifestyle problem, but as a complex, chronic disease that […]
September 26, 2025 — Can we think global and act local on chronic diseases and obesity? At the United Nations General Assembly meeting this week, quite a few people gave it a try – with mixed results. At the end of the day yesterday, no one was terribly surprised when U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threw a […]
May 20, 2019 — Today we’re at the WHO for the WHA learning all about NCDs and UHC. Alphabet soup for lunch. Obesity? It was hiding behind the chia seeds at the breakfast buffet. Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and universal health coverage (UHC) are big priorities at the 72nd World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva today. But within the global […]
