2016: USC at the 69th World Health Assembly

A group of 12 students were embedded as delegates to NCD Alliance members at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, May 23-28. 

The decision-making body of the World Health Organization, the WHA is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the executive board. The students attended the assembly as part of the course “Global Health Governance & Diplomacy in Practice in Geneva at the World Health Assembly.”

The students were placed on four delegations from the NCD Alliance—Alzheimer’s Disease International, International Diabetes Federation, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung DiseaseUnion for International Cancer Control and World Heart Federation,

See their posts, photos and other media during and after the assembly in the links below.

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