Johanna Ralston is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the World Heart Federation and Vice Chair of NCD Alliance. She has nearly twenty years of global health and development experience. Prior to becoming CEO of the World Heart Federation, Johanna served as Vice President, Global Strategies at the American Cancer Society (ACS). Ms. Ralston has strong leadership skills and played a key role in launching the ACS University, a programme that is aimed at strengthening civil society’s role in cancer control in low- and middle-income countries. She was has also been involved in the International roll-out of Relay for Life as well as leading global tobacco and cancer control projects in more than 30 countries including the Global Smokefree Partnership.
'Global Obesity Declaration' highlights the causes, solutions and risks COVID-19 poses for obesity, but more action is needed from governments and society.
Without a healthy human population, none of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are achievable. It's time we recognized obesity as the public health crisis it is.
Why would a former Oxfam campaigner and a group of grassroots consumer rights advocates be sitting down with big government and big food to tackle obesity? And how can a tick in a box tac...
