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Rounding Up the War on Cancer

On September 28, 2016, The Economist hosted its second annual “War on Cancer” event in Boston, Massachusetts. The one-day meeting featured influential speakers, including Greg Simon, the Executive Director of the Cancer Moonshot Taskforce; Kyu Rhee, the Chief Health Officer at IBM; and Howard Krein, the Chief Medical Officer at StartUp Health. The World Health...

Gillian Christie | Oct 7, 2016
alcohol, cancer, Cancer Moonshot Taskforce, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Congressional Budget Office, exercise, healthy diet, IBM, StartUp Health, The Economist, tobacco use, war on cancer, weight, World Health Organization

Webinar Series 3: Why is Community Health Important to Your Business?

WATCH WEBINAR SERIES 3 HERE. Webinar 3 - How Workplace Health Programs can use the Latest Data on the Burden of Disease and Risk to Make Them More Effective, by Derek Yach and Jason Lang Learning objectives – On completion of this webinar the participant should be able to Analyze the variability of burden of disease and...

Nov 12, 2014
behavioral economics, CDC, evidence-based, global burden of disease, impact, innovation, NCDs, webinar, webinar series, workplace health