

NCDs: what’s changed in 20 years?
This is the second in my series of three blogs to mark my 20 years of working in NCD prevention. In those two decades, about a third of a...
Danish Red Cross (2025), 'The Longer the Crisis, the Greater the Need': Messages from People with Lived Experiences of NCDs in Four Humanitarian Settings - advocacy document, the culmination of interviews in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia and Syria
WHO Geneva
2025: Brochure on the FCTC 2030 initiative, for the WHO FCTC Secretariat (forthcoming)
2025: A guide for journalists to NCDs (forthcoming)
2025: Update to the global investment case for NCDs (forthcoming)
2022: Invisible Numbers: The True Extent of NCDs and What to Do About Them - lead author, developed in close consultation with WHO colleagues
WHO/Europe
Major report:
2019: Monitoring and Restricting Digital Marketing of Unhealthy Products to Children and Adolescents
Rapporteur reports:
2025: European Alcohol Health Alliance symposium (forthcoming)
2024: videogames and NCDs (meeting in 2021)
2018: meeting of WHO/Europe Collaborating Centres on the risk factors and surveillance of NCDs
2024: Lead author of Neglected and in Crisis: NCDs as a Priority in Humanitarian Settings and accompanying case studies (Kenya, the MENA region and Ukraine)
2025, 2020 and 2017: Lead rapportur at NCD Alliance Global Forums, including writing official daily blogs and orchestrating team of rapporteurs
2017: Tackling Noncommunicable Diseases in Workplace Settings in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Call to Action and Practical Guidance, which I was invited to launch at the Global NCD Alliance Forum in the United Arab Emirates in 2017.
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2025: Consultant and rapporteur of meeting of 60 experts on NCDs in humanitarian settings for the IFRC and Danish Red Cross (report forthcoming)
2025: Danish Red Cross, 'The Longer the Crisis, the Greater the Need': Messages from People with Lived Experiences of NCDs in Four Humanitarian Settings
2024: Rapporteur of the WHO Global High-level Technical Meeting NCDs in Humanitarian Settings
2023: Consultancy and rapporteuring of Danish Red Cross meeting: Finding Financing: Sustainable Resourcing for
NCDs in Humanitarian Settings
2020/21: Supported a roundtable of the IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support, authored Scoping Report: Integrating Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Within Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Care in Humanitarian Response and coauthored peer-reviewed article
2018: Worked with the Danish Red Cross, NCDFREE and the ICRC to develop and rapporteur a 'bootcamp' meeting of young professionals and seasoned experts on NCDs in humanitarian settings: final report.
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2024: NCDs: A Global Health and Development Priority – A New Briefing: a Message to the New UK Government
2019: Roundtable summary: Acting Early, Saving Lives: Prevention and Promotion as Key Aspects of UHC (roundtable with Chatham House)
2018: Briefing paper Non-communicable Diseases: A Global Health and Development Priority (for Parliamentary event)
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Access to Nutrition Initiative (Netherlands)​​
2022: First ever UK Retailer Index 2022, an assessment of major UK supermarkets' actions on nutrition and health
2020-1: Series of four major reports on the global food industry and Covid-19, during the first 18 months of the pandemic, including:​
A Country-level Response - India, Mexico and Nigeria (February 2021)
The Time for Change (July 2021)
VicHealth (Australia)
2020: Under the Radar: Harmful Industries' Digital Marketing to Children​ (part of the response to Covid-19)
Obesity Health Alliance
2021: Turning the Tide: A 10-year Healthy Weight Strategy, (lead author) - the culmination of a year-long series of expert meetings and collaborative drafting process
World Obesity
2023: An Economic Imperative: Catalysing Funding to Address Obesity (a discussion paper for the Global Obesity Forum)
British Heart Foundation
2025: Bridging Hearts: Addressing Inequalities in Cardiovascular Health and Care (copy-editor)
World Cancer Research Fund International
2023: Building Momentum 4: Establishing Robust Policies to Promote Physical Activity in Primary Healthcare
The Food Foundation
Wilton Park
Global Action Plan
Interviews and report on the private sector's response to National Clean Air Day
C3 Collaborating for Health
White paper on local third-sector action to improve young people's chances of a healthy life in the UK
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Not an "either/or": integrating mental health and psychosocial support within non-communicable disease prevention and care in humanitarian response' (2021) Journal of Global Health (B. Gyawali, M.C. Haraysm, S. Hassan, K. Cooper et al.)
'Obesity, SDGs and ROOTS: a framework for impact' (2021) Curr Obes Rep 10: 54–60 (J. Ralston, K. Cooper, J. Powys)
'Obesity: a ghost at the feast of the Sustainable Development Goals' (2020) Curr Obes Rep 9: 470–8 (T. Lobstein and K. Cooper)
'Dystopia, utopia - or somewhere in between: Healthy City Design 2019, London, 14–15 October' (2020) Cities & Health 4(1): 50–3 (K. Cooper)
Other blogs
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In addition to my own blog musings on this site and my ever-growing library of cycling blogs, I have been commissed to write for others, including:
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Daily update blogs for the NCD Alliance Global Forum, including this wrap-up from the final day of the 2025 Forum: Advocate, agitate and communicate: stand up, be vocal, and be strong in our uncertain world
Obesity and the SDGs: an opportunity hidden in plain sight (World Obesity) 24 September 2019
Brockley through a new lens: #Brockley365 (contribution to A Sense of Place, Catherine Max Consulting) 24 September 2017
Air pollution - a tale of two cities (NCD Alliance) 21 September 2017
Human rights and NCDs: integrated and indivisible (NCD Alliance) 13 July 2017
Physical activity: the miracle drug (C3) 10 May 2017
Green reads: Talking Climate - From Research to Practice in Public Engagement (book review for NESSE - the Network of Early-Career Sustainable Scientists and Engineers) 10 March 2017
Using digital data to drive behaviour change in local communities (C3) 8 February 2017
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