The NCD Slow Motion Disaster Requires a Long Term Solution: Posted in Dialogue 4 Health Blog, by Jeff Meer on November 23, 2011

Huffington Post UK launched a new Impact section on issues, charities and making a difference on Friday November 18, 2011, the same day as the BBC’s Children In Need campaign. Our comment on Innovative Financing for health in Pakistan was displayed on the front page of the Impact section available to more than four million Huffington Post readers in the UK with around 35m for the site worldwide.

Pakistan and Polio; Huffington Post, November 5, 2011

This month's issue of Asian Scientist magazine carries an interview of Dr. Sania Nishtar about the new Sania Nishtar Health Fund and what inspired her to start Heartfile Health Financing: November 01, 2011

Our recent paper, “Heartfile Health Financing: Striving to achieve Health Equity in Pakistan,” has just been published on a World Health Organization hosted website for the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health. The conference commences on October 19, 2011. The paper is part of a series of case studies that present successful examples of policy action aiming to reduce health inequities.

a recent paper co-authored by Eva Jane Lopez of the World Economic Forum and Sania Nishtar from Heartfile outlines the imperative for creating an apex global coordinating mechanism for non-communicable diseases. This is the first publication after the release of the high level political declaration on NCDs, which reinforces one of the declaration’s key recommendations centered on furthering international collaboration on NCD. October 05, 2011

Human Rights and NCDs, In preparation for the UN High Level Meeting on September 19-20, 2011, the NCD Alliance has just released its Human Rights Brief. This has been prepared by its Human Rights Working Group, of which Dr. Sania Nishtar is a member. Ten key recommendations are outlined in the brief including inter alia, implementation for prevention of NCDs, the right to essential medicines and technologies and vulnerable populations.

A special issue of 'The Journal of Health Communication' was launched at a side event to the UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases in New York on September 19. Both guest editors, Peter Anderson and Dr. Sania Nishtar, are members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council (GAC) on Chronic Disease and Wellness where at a meeting of this body in 2010 in Dubai, the idea for this special supplement was conceived. The authors of this 205-page journal have engaged in research and dialogue throughout the globe. September 2, 2011.

Dr. Sania Nishtar receives global innovation award. The Friday Times. August 26-September 1, 2011

HEART, HEALTH, YOUTH AND MORE: Aman ki Asha - destination peace, The News International, August 10, 2011

Healthcare system: Integrated healthcare plan proposed to ensure ‘health for all’. The Express Tribune: August 9, 2011

Healing touch: India, Pak docs join hands on key issues. The Times of India, New Delhi. August 01, 2011