challenges facing global health networks: the ncd alliance experience; comment on “four challenges that global health networks face”

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 broadbased 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), coalitionbuilding and governance – and highlights some further areas overlooked in his analysis.