Webinar 15 Youth, Non-Communicable Disease, and the COVID-19 Pandemic In 2011, the campaign for the prevention and control of NCDs was introduced as a priority activity by the United Nations. As global health priorities transitioned from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals, NCDs emerged as a set of conditions that have direct links to achieving goals and targets of the SDGs. It has taken a highly communicable condition like COVID-19 to highlight the dangers inherent in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). These are usually bracketed away as previously underlying or pre-existing medical conditions when, in fact, they should be in the foreground. This webinar-cum-panel discussion focused on: 1. Need of increasing awareness in students for NCDs like diabetes & hypertension 2. Best practices for curbing hypertension in adolescents 3. Physical inactivity & chances of diabetes during lockdown 4. Excessive binge eating and unhealthy diet 5. Collaborating with schools to reduce chances of NCDs Our eminent panel which included: DR. ANSHU SHARMA Senior CMO [HAG] and HOD NCD division & Biochemistry divisions at NCDC Delhi
DR. SHWETA KHANDELWAL Head of Nutritional Research and Add. Professor at PHFI
MR. OMAR MOHAMMAD Managing Director & General Manager, Roche Diabetes Care India
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MS. NITA ARORA Principal, Sri Venkateshwar International School (Winner of National Healthy School Award in 2019)
