Ted Tao: Representing global youth at WHO high-level meetings

From 9-12 December 2019, the World Health Organisation (WHO) organised a Global Meeting with the theme “Accelerate Progress on SDG Target 3.4 on Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health”. Ted Tao (Tao Xuanchen), a Research Assistant in The George Institute China’s Diabetes Research Program and PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales, emerged as a "WHO Global Youth Delegate" for this conference.

Urgent action on diet needed to stem rising tide of chronic disease in less developed nations

Media release

Researchers investigating differences in diet and related disease risk factors between men and women in lower income countries instead found an alarming degree of poor dietary habits that likely masked effects of gender, according to a new study published today.