This was a session of the Universal Health Coverage Roundtable Series.

Laurie Garrett discusses the public policy implications of bird flu and bioterrorism.

President Obama gave these remarks at George Washington University on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2011.

Thomas Bollyky examines strategies to improve access to neglected disease treatments and sustainably meet the treatment needs of the world's poorest people.

Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool discusses South Africa's role in the changing landscape of global health governance.

As the world's population surpasses seven billion, CFR Senior Fellow for Global Health Yanzhong Huang identifies the variety of ways in which different global regions are impacted by population growth. Huang argues that a region- and issue-specific approach is needed to address population issues.

Experts discuss current global vaccination efforts in conjunction with the launch of CFR's Vaccine-Preventable Outbreak Interactive Map.

In their single-minded pursuit of economic growth, China's leaders have long overlooked public health—which, by some measures, is now worse than under Mao.

Laurie Garrett discusses the FRONTLINE documentary, "The Anthrax Letters."

Reuters investigates the legitimacy of North Korea's appeals for massive food aid that have gone mostly unanswered by a skeptical international community.

The 2011 high-level UN meeting on non-communicable diseases fell far short of the major funding and targets agreed to at a similar meeting on HIV/AIDS a decade ago, which CFR's Thomas Bollyky says indicates a need for different actors and approaches on chronic diseases.

Why is the UN convening a summit-level meeting on illnesses like cancer and diabetes? This CFR guide looks at how these non-communicable diseases have amplified the burdens on developing states and the global threat they pose.

NCDs such as cancer and heart disease are becoming leading causes of death in the developing world and will be the focus of a September UN meeting. But health experts and others are divided about how much funding should go into a global campaign aimed at preventing NCDs and whether infectious disease programs will suffer as a result.

The World Health Organization has gained prominence for its success in battling diseases such as polio and malaria, but is challenged by an unwieldy mission and strained resources in a landscape of competing organizations.

This declaration, a draft resolution on noncommunicable diseases, is dated September 16, 2011. It was released before the UN General Assembly meeting on September 19-20, 2011.

This WHO document was released after the World Health Assembly on May 24, 2008. It was "designed to promote innovation, build capacity, imoprove access and mobilize resources".

Laurie Garrett says the movie Contagion serves as a warning that a globally coordinated and equitable response to any pandemic is needed.

Amanda Glassman, director of Global Health Policy at the Center for Global Development, discusses the impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), strategies to reduce NDC occurence, and the failure to implement such interventions.

Derek Yach, director of global health policy at PepsiCo, discusses the role of government and business in lowering mortality rates from non-communicable diseases (NCDs). "We now have overwhelming evidence, both of the health impact, and perhaps as importantly, we're starting to see the economic impact of heart disease, diabites, chronic lung disease, cancer," says Yach, arguing this data is raising global interest in the issue of NCDs.

Amanda Glassman and Kate McQueston suggest five affordable low-cost or no-cost interventions against the increasing frequency of non-communicable diseases.