Grant to the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)

Expected Outcome: Proposals should set out a credible pathway to contributing to one or several expected impacts of destination “Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden”.

Project results are expected to contribute to the following expected outcome: enable the European Commission to take part in GACD[[https://www.gacd.org]], which brings together leading health research funding agencies of key countries (currently Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, UK and USA) to coordinate research activities addressing on a global scale the prevention and treatment of chronic, non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, mental and neurological diseases, lung diseases and cancer.

Scope: Recommendations of GACD are expected to have a fundamental value for future orientation of public health research policy. This will also contribute to the implementation of the Union’s strategy for international cooperation in research and innovation.