"Access to Care for Cardiometabolic Diseases"

Workshop

The aim of the Conference is to generate international awareness of the collaborative project, “HPACC“ (Project on Access to Care for Cardiometabolic Diseases), share findings, and further develop the path forward toward addressing the ever growing global burden of age related non communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. We have a very limited understanding of the health system performance for these diseases in the context of low and middle income countries; this is the gap that HPACC is addressing in order to inform evidence based policies and interventions to extend healthy, active years of life. In order to pursue this exciting, high impact line of inquiry, research efforts from both universities have been combined in an integrated approach that is including professors, postdocs, PhDs as well as student assistants. The workshop provided a valuable framework in which an extensive and lasting cooperation between the University of Göttingen and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health was further reinforced
The specific objectives of the Conference were: presenting the HPACC findings and efforts up to date; team building between our research collaborators; grant proposal writing as the foundation for an ongoing cooperation; connecting the joint program with external collaborators; as well as outlining and streamlining the current and future research plan.

Please find the programme here .