The Centre is an international partnership between AIIMS, New Delhi; Emory University, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and PHFI
The Centre for Control of Chronic Conditions (CCCC) was launched recently by YS Chowdary, Minister of State for Science and Technology. The Minister also released a joint report on ‘Chronic Conditions in India – Evidence based solutions for a growing health crisis.’ The report addresses the rising tide of chronic conditions in India and argues that the cost of inaction towards chronic conditions would be too high for India to bear.
CCCC is an international partnership between the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Emory University, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Public Health Foundation of India. The secretariat for this global partnership will be at the Public Health Foundation of India. The Centre is a multi-disciplinary group of researchers and health professionals representing a spectrum of clinical, public health, genetics, biochemistry and social science disciplines. The work focuses on the priority chronic conditions of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, mental disorders, diabetes, chronic lung diseases, cancers, injuries and chronic kidney diseases.
Prof MC Misra, Director AIIMS said, “This international collaboration between AIIMS, Emory University, LSHTM and PHFI will be the beginning to strengthen institutional framework, national and international capacity building and networks in the regions that will translate evidence into policy and practice.”
Prof James Curran, Dean, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta US, said, “There is also an urgent need to advocate the integration of best practices for various chronic diseases and injuries with one another as India progresses with its national health agenda, hence this international partnership serves as a platform that will try and make a real difference to health outcomes in this enormously important area.”
In his address Dr K Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India said, “The Increasing burden of chronic conditions has had not only obvious health implications but also economic and developmental consequences. It is in response to this public health challenge that Centre for Control of Chronic Conditions will generate world-class knowledge which can impact policy and practice, and will work with and educate the wider community about lifestyle-associated diseases to improve quality of life and reduce the burden of chronic conditions.”
Prof Anne Mills, Deputy Director & Provost and Professor of Health Economics and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), emphasised, “The launch of the Centre for Control of Chronic Conditions will further augment targeted healthcare initiatives, capacity-building and policy engagement, to prevent and control chronic diseases in other low and middle income country settings.”
EH News Bureau