%0 Journal Article %T Challenges Facing Global Health Networks: The NCD Alliance Experience; Comment on “Four Challenges that Global Health Networks Face” %J International Journal of Health Policy and Management %I Kerman University of Medical Sciences %Z 2322-5939 %A Dain, Katie %D 2018 %\ 03/01/2018 %V 7 %N 3 %P 282-285 %! Challenges Facing Global Health Networks: The NCD Alliance Experience; Comment on “Four Challenges that Global Health Networks Face” %K Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) %K Civil Society Networks %K Coalition-Building %K Advocacy %K Governance %K Human Sustainable Development %R 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.93 %X Successful prevention and control of the epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) cannot be achieved by the health sector alone: a wide range of organisations from multiple sectors and across government must also be involved. This requires a new, inclusive approach to advocacy and to coordinating, convening and catalysing action across civil society, best achieved by a broad-based network. This comment maps the experience of the NCD Alliance (NCDA) on to Shiffman’s challenges for global health networks – framing (problem definition and positioning), coalition-building and governance – and highlights some further areas overlooked in his analysis. %U https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3400_b9e6e4a03b6b0c64f547802ee5462d97.pdf