NCDs and Climate Change

This NCD Civil Society Response in Support of the 2023 Bridgetown Declaration to be adopted this week, provides key messages and follow-up recommendations by the …

The Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC) in partnership with the ROTARY District 7030 and the Caribbean Association of Nutritionists and Dieticians (CANDi) presented a joint special …

COVID-19 and Food Security – The time is now for a paradigm shift in the way we produce and consume healthy food in the Caribbean. …

Project: Neighbourhood-level Built Environment/Walkability and Non-Communicable Diseases in Barbados Supervisor: Professor Ian Hambleton; Dr. Christina Howitt Program: PhD Epidemiology (UWI Faculty of Medical Sciences and …

HCC OPEN LETTER TO CARICOM HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT CALLING FOR URGENT ACTION TO PROTECT THOSE LIVING WITH NCDs FROM COVID-19 March 27, 2020 …

In August 2019, the HCC was invited to represent the Caribbean as one of the priority countries/regions of the Lancet Countdown over the period 2019-2023 …

Arising out of a multisectoral regional meeting “Accelerating Nutrition Policies in the Caribbean: Creating Supportive Environments for Healthy Children”,1 17-18 September 20191 in Bridgetown, Barbados, …

Power, Progress, Change Women Deliver 2019, Miss. Ashley Foster-Estwick Women Deliver Young Leader and HCC Youth Advocate describes her experiences. Vancouver, Canada set the stage …

The 3rd UN High-level Meeting on NCDs was held on Thursday, 27th September 2018, during the high-level week of the UN General Assembly under the …

Of the four risk factors for NCDs, physical activity (PA) receives the least attention and programmes aimed at reducing inactivity are woefully insufficient or altogether …