The UK Working Group on NCDs is an informal coalition of 25 civil-society organisations based in the UK with strong interest in NCDs as an international development issue
Members of the UK Working Group on NCDs
(as of September 2025)
- Action Against Hunger
- Action for Global Health
- Age International
- Alcohol Health Alliance
- Alzheimer’s Disease International
- C3 Collaborating for Health
- Cancer Research UK
- The George Institute for Global Health
- Global Action on Men’s Health
- Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases*
- Global Health Partnerships (formerly THET)
- International Children’s Palliative Care Network
- International Rescue Committee
- LSHTM Centre for Global Chronic Conditions
- NCD Alliance
- Primary Care International
- Sightsavers
- Stroke Association
- UCL Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases
- UK–Ireland Global Cancer Network
- United for Global Mental Health
- World Cancer Research Fund International
- World Obesity
- World Hepatitis Alliance
- Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance
*The UK-based secretariat represents GACD, an alliance of international public funding agencies.
Meetings of the Working Group take place online monthly, with an in-person meeting at least annually (with a dial-in option).
Governance
Membership of the UK Working Group on NCDs is limited to organisations from civil society, research institutes, and other academic bodies.* Organisations may work across NCDs, on specific diseases or risk factors, or more widely on health and development. Membership is open to organisations with an interest in global NCD prevention and control, with an office anywhere in the UK. Financial or in-kind contributions to support the Working Group’s activities are welcomed.
* Exceptions may be made for consultants specifically appointed by or working with members of the Working Group. Expressions of interest to join the Working Group by other organisations and/or individuals will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Members are required to disclose whether the organisations they represent** have in the past 10 years received any funding from or are otherwise connected in any way to the tobacco, alcohol, food and beverage, fossil fuel, or pharmaceutical industries.
**In the case of consultants, this refers to both to the organisation that they represent, and the consulting company by which they are employed.
In November 2019 the UK Working Group on NCDs became the UK’s national NCD alliance.
The current chair of the UK Working Group is Katy Cooper. Katy is an independent consultant with 20 years’ experience in the prevention of NCDs, and has worked with organisations both within the Working Group (including the NCD Alliance, World Obesity and WCRF International) and outside (including WHO, the Access to Nutrition Initiative (the Netherlands), VicHealth (Australia) and the Danish Red Cross). She was one of the founders of the UK Working Group in 2018 and was its coordinator from its inception until summer 2020, when she assumed the role of chair.
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