The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, seeking to build on the momentum created around chronic diseases at the recent meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations in September 2011, is launching a new Center for non-communicable diseases (NCD’s) in late April 2012 in London.

According to the press release from the LSHTM, the new Center will help share and disseminate information and expertise and develop new research and policy initiatives. The areas of primary interest are low and middle income countries, however, the Center will promote communication and collaboration between researchers in high as well as in low and middle income countries.

The symposium will take place in London on April 25 and will feature many well known epidemiologists as speakers or session chairs. Included among these are Robert Beaglehole and Ruth Bonita from the University of Auckland, Shah Ebrahim, Jorn Olsen from the International Epidemiological Association, and Neil Pearce and Laura Rodrigues from the LSHTM

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