
Congress by Professor Rajiv Saran of the University of Michigan
Time: June 9-11, 2022
Form: online meeting (for free)
https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/worldncdcongress/home
Prominent speakers include WHO’s Chief Scientist, Soumya Swaminathan, Pekka Puska, Finland’s former Director General of the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Dariush Mozaffarian, Dean at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, as well as Michigan Medicine Professor of Internal Medicine Rodica Pop-Busui, who is the incoming President of the American Diabetes Association, amongst others.
There are planned sessions on Learning Systems and Surveillance, Role of Artificial Intelligence and Early Detection/Risk Prediction, Health Inequities in NCDs and role of social prescribing, Metabolic diseases including Kidney Disease, Nutrition, Childhood Obesity, Mental Health, Sleep, Environment (air pollution, warming climate, occupational settings) and more, with panelists from many Michigan Medicine (Medical School) departments, Michigan’s School of Public Health as well as School of Information.