With fourteen (14) delegates, the Caribbean was well represented at the recent NCD Alliance Global Forum held in Kigali, Rwanda from 12-15 February 2025. The meeting was the largest yet, bringing together over 700 NCD advocates from across the globe united and moblising around the upcoming 4th UN High Level Meeting on NCDs to be held on 24 September, 2025 at the UNGA in NYC.
The HCC was represented by Vice President Debbie Chen (also CEO of the Heart Foundation of Jamaica); Board Member, Charity Dublin (also Vice President of the Antigua and Barbuda Diabetes Association and HCY member); Executive Director Maisha Hutton, Advocacy Officer and Lead of Healthy Caribbean Youth, Danielle Walwyn; Project Assistant and HCY Member Dorial Quintyne; HCY Member Simone Mathews; HCC Technical Advisor (and Co-Chair of the NCDA Supporters Group) Professor Alafia Samuels; HCC Technical Advisor Pierre Cooke Jnr; and member of the HCC PLWNCDs High-level Advisory Group (and member of NCDA OVOV) Diana Gittens.
HCC members from across the region were also out in full force including: Trinidad and Tobago NCD Alliance represented by Dr. Andrew Dhanoo (President Diabetes Association of Trinidad and Tobago) and Jessica Johns (President of Trinidad and Tobago Association of Nutritionists and Dietitians); Maria O’Brien (Director, Mindwise TT and Voices of SIDS lead); Michele Baker representing the St. Kitts and Nevis NCD Alliance/ Lake Health and Wellbeing (also Policy Coordinator at the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) and HCY member); and UNICEF youth activist Jamaica, Cavan Lewis.
The HCC/ Caribbean contingent coordinated, hosted, or participated in a number of sessions including: the Youth pre-meeting, the Our Views Our Voices pre-meeting, Caribbean Civil Society pre-meeting, plenary sessions, a Commercial Determinants of Health/Conflict of Interest session, Roche session launching the East Africa NCD Framework, World Diabetes Session session dedicated to spotlighting civil society contributions to NCD responses, World Obesity Federation session focused on mobilizing change to address obesity and many others.
HCY members participated in the preparation and dissemination of the Kigali Youth Declaration. All are invited to show their support for the NCDA Alliance’s Call to Lead and the Kigali Youth Declaration.
Enjoy our photo gallery below.
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