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On 16 October 2022, UNITAR partnered with The Defeat-NCD Partnership to host a high-level panel discussion on Tackling NCD during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The event brought together global leaders to address the interconnected challenges of COVID-19 and non-communicable diseases (NCD). It highlighted the urgent need to shift from rhetoric to action in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3.4, reducing premature mortality from NCD.Ms Dechen Wangmo, Minister of Health for Bhutan and President of the 74th World Health Assembly, opened the session ...
When Dr. Amina, a public health professional in Brazil, heard about the WHO Academy’s new learning platform, she was eager to explore its offerings. Like many of her colleagues, she had struggled with fragmented online learning resources, outdated training materials, and the challenge of accessing high-quality courses relevant to her work. But in December 2024, that changed.Thanks to a successul collaboration between UNITAR’s Division on NCD, Digital Health, and Capacity Building, The Defeat-NCD Partnership, and WHO, 140 essential health training courses were successfully m...
As a curriculum or learning designer, few things are as heartbreaking as spending months crafting a course, only to witness low engagement, high dropout rates, and lacklustre response from your target learners. Unfortunately, disengagement is a widespread issue.Consider these statistics:Around 90% of online learners disengage with MOOCs (Reich, J., & Ruipérez-Valiente, J. A., 2019; Moore, R. L., & Blackmon, S. J., 2022). Approximately 20-30% of learners drop out of face-to-face courses (Rothkrantz, L., 2017).At least 39% of US university students...