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Member Profile - Derek Yach
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Derek Yach is Director of Global Health Policy at PepsiCo. Previously he has headed global health at the Rockefeller Foundation, been professor of Public Health and head of the Division of Global Health at Yale University, and is a former Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr. Yach has spearheaded efforts to build an analytical framework for assessing the impacts of globalization on health in order to find ways of improving global health. At the WHO he served as cabinet director under Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland. Dr. Yach helped place tobacco control, nutrition and chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease prominently on the agenda of governments, non-governmental organizations and the private sector. He led development of WHO's first treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the development of Global Strategy on Diet and Physical Activity. Dr Yach is a South African national. He established the Centre for Epidemiological Research at the South African Medical Research Council which focused on quantifying inequalities and the impact of urbanization on health. He has authored or co-authored over 200 articles, including most recently, '...obesity and diabetes”, Nature Medicine, 2006, 'Global Chronic Diseases', Science, 2005; 'Politics and Health', Development, 2004; and 'The World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: implications for the global epidemics of food-related deaths and disease', Journal of Public Health Policy, 2004.
Derek's Blogs
Does mobility restriction increase food intake?