The Oxford Health Alliance Asia Pacific Regional Centre(OxHA Asia-Pacific) was launched at the University of Sydney in late 2005 under the joint leadership and remit of Professor Stephen Leeder and Associate Professor Ruth Colagiuri.

The Oxford Health Alliance (OxHA) serves to prevent and reduce the global impact of chronic disease. It stands for innovative action with diverse stakeholders around three risk factors (tobacco use, physical inactivity and poor diet) that lead to four chronic diseases (CVD, diabetes, chronic lung diseases and some cancers) contributing to more than 50% of deaths worldwide.

OxHA Asia-Pacific has undertaken to foster and undertake activities to promote action to assist success in the 'race against time' to combat chronic diseases globally.

Since its launch, OxHA Asia-Pacific has steadily built a network of over 100 people and organisations, from Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, the Philippines, China and various Pacific Island countries, in a coalition of people committed to stemming the tide of chronic diseases. The list represents a range of public and private sectors and includes people from ministries of health, food and pharmaceutical companies, research and academia, clinical services, employee unions, NGOs (diabetes, heart, kidney and cancer), WHO-Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, private health related organisations and government organisations.

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