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Date: Wednesday 25 April 2012
Time: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Venue: John Snow, LSHTM, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
Type of event: Symposium

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is launching its Centre for Global Non-communicable Disease with a one-day Symposium on Wednesday 25th April. This Symposium seeks to build on the momentum from the recent UN High Level Meeting on NCDs.

It is intended that the LSHTM Centre for Global Non-communicable Disease which will act as a reference for people involved in NCD research both inside and outside of the School. The centre will lead to the sharing and dissemination of information, knowledge and expertise, and the development of new research and policy initiatives. The Centre will focus on Low-and-Middle-Income Countries LMICs, but many of the researchers involved are also doing work in High Income Countries (HICs), and one of the aims of the Centre will be to promote collaboration and communication between researchers in LMICs and those in HICs.

To register please visit - http://globalncd.eventbrite.co.uk/